Excerpt from the Presidential Prayer Team Homepage.
OUR NATION'S GODLY HERITAGE--BULLETPROOF GEORGE WASHINGTON
The Father of our Country experienced a miracle early in his military
career. This account is widely known and was included in most school history
textbooks, until recent changes caused it to be deleted from many books.
During the French and Indian war at the Battle of the Monongahela, young
Colonel Washington was engaged in a fierce skirmish with the Indians. An
easy target in his bold red coat, he crisscrossed the battlefield carrying
General Braddock's orders to the troops. The Indian warriors later
acknowledged that they were targeting all officers--and particularly
Washington--in the bright garb. Yet Washington survived. There were
eighty-six British and American officers involved in the battle; sixty-three
of them died. Colonel Washington was the only officer on horseback who was
not killed, and later, the Indians testified that they repeatedly shot at
him, and were surprised that he never fell. They believed he was protected
by an invisible power and that no bullet, bayonet, arrow or tomahawk could
harm him.
Years later, the Indian chief sought Washington out in order to tell him
what had happened in the battle. The Chief said, "I am a chief and ruler
over my tribes. I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the
young warrior of the great battle. [On that day] I called to my men and
said, 'Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies.' Our rifles were
leveled, rifles which, but for you, knew not how to miss--'twas all in vain,
a power mightier far than we, shielded you...I am come to pay homage to the
man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who can never die in
battle."
Washington himself later wrote to his brother John, "By the all-powerful
dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human
probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two
horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my
companions on every side of me!"