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Braddock was greatly depressed by the loss and badly injured his hand in several places in the process.
Braddock then fought John Henry Lewis, a future light heavyweight champion on November 16, 1934 and won in one of the most important fights of his career.
Jim Braddock suffered from problems with his arthritic hands after several injuries throughout his career, and in 1936 his title defense in Madison Square Garden against the German Max Schmeling had to be cancelled in suspect circumstances.
Braddock's defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela was a major setback for the British in the early stages of the war with France.
Braddock died of his wounds during the long retreat, on July 13, and is ironically, buried within the Fort Necessity parklands.
Braddock's failure, according to proponents of this theory, was not that he did not use frontier tactics; he failed because he did not adequately apply traditional military doctrine, particularly by not using distance reconnaissance.
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