The french and indians, the number of each not known, had, as we found after, possessed the sides and brow of a hill, in a circular form, from the extreme of which some of them fired upon one of our advanced flank parties. this immediately struck a general pannic; the men could not be persuaded to form regularly; in great confusion they fell back. . [n]o order could be restored.

according to this account, what happened in the battle?

The British soldiers panicked when they were shot at.

Explanation:

This passage, published in The Public Advertiser on September 20th, 1755, is part of a letter from Fort Cumberland, from July 16, published as an account of Braddock's Defeat.

Braddock's Defeat was a failed British military expedition venturing to seize the French Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian Wars in the summer of 1755.

b. 155 enlisted men and no officers

`stare decisis is a legal doctrine that obligates courts to follow historical cases when making a ruling on a similar current or future case. stare decisis ensures that cases with identical facts be approached in the same way, unless overruled by the same court or a higher court such as the us supreme court. simply put, it binds courts to follow legal precedents set by previous decisions.

stare decisis is a latin term meaning "to stand by that which is decided".