Five improbable moments. One thread. And a question worth asking 250 years later. By Steve Russo Four bullets passed through his coat. Two horses died beneath him. He walked off the field. He was twenty-three years old. It was July 9, 1755. The British column had marched into an ambush near the Monongahela River, deep in what is now western Pennsylvania. The commanding general was dead. The officers around the young Virginia colonel were being cut down where they stood. The b