Concentrating at Frazier’s cabin

Although they expect to encounter resistance from hostile tribes and possibly French troops, Gage’s command concentrates at Frazier’s cabin on the east bank of the Monongahela River and no initial contact with the enemy is made. Some British officers have assumed that the French have abandoned Fort Duquesne without a fight but an enemy force is already in the field, searching for the Braddock Expedition and intent on stopping it.