Mount Vernon's website verifies that Washington's horse was shot out beneath him and that he bore bullet holes in his coat after the battle (yesterday's post). And in a letter to his brother he credited the saving of his life to Providence, that is, God's caring intervention.
There's another interesting twist to this story about George Washington's part in the 1755 battle. An Indian Chief who had observed Washington during the battle shared his memory of it years later along with a prophecy:
"Our rifles were leveled--rifles which, but for him, knew not how to miss. 'Twas all in vain; a power far mightier than we shielded him from harm. He cannot die in battle. The Great Spirit protects that man, and guides his destinies. He will become chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him the founder of a mighty nation."
The Chief's prophecy is said to have been recorded in historian George Bancroft's history of the United States.
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