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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1766 (search)
risoners or scalped by the Indians. The barbarians were then besieging Fort Pitt. As soon as they heard of the approach of Bouquet, they raised the siege with the intention of meeting and attacking him. Uncertain of their strength and motives, Bouquet left Fort Bedford and went to Fort Ligonier, where he left his wagons and stores, and pushed on towards Fort Pitt. with the troops in light marching order, and 340 pack-horses carrying flour. On Aug. 5 his advanced guard was attacked near Bushy Run by Indians in ambuscade, who were driven some distance by the troops. The barbarians returned to the attack, and a general action ensued, the Indians being continually repulsed and then returning to the fight. They were finally driven from their posts with fixed bayonets and dispersed. They rallied, and the next morning surrounded Bouquet's camp. After a severe conflict, they were again dispersed. In these engagements the English lost fifty killed and sixty wounded. Colonel Bouquet re
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
, 1763 Fort Le Boeuf burned by Indians; garrison escapes......June 18, 1763 Fort Venango destroyed, garrison and all......June 18, 1763 Presque Isle, now Erie, garrison of twenty-four men, surrenders......June 22, 1763 Fort Pitt, with a garrison of 330 men, and 200 women and children, besieged by the Indians......June–July, 1763 Colonel Bouquet, at the head of 500 British troops, advances from Carlisle to the relief of Fort Pitt......July, 1763 When within a half-mile of Bushy Run, and about 25 miles from Fort Pitt, he is attacked by the Indians......Aug. 5, 1763 Battle continues during the day, and begins again at early dawn. Bouquet feigns a retreat, bringing the Indians within the circle of his troops and defeating them. His loss was eight officers and 115 privates. He reaches and relieves Fort Pitt......Aug. 10, 1763 Connecticut colony in the Wyoming Valley driven out by the Indians......Oct. 15, 1763 Surveyors Mason and Dixon begin running the south
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
rs while under the particular directions of the man they knew and loved. Every encampment was so planned as to hasten the issue. On the thirteenth the veteran Armstrong, who had proved his superior skill in leading troops rapidly and secretly through the wilderness, pushed forward with one chap. XIII.} 1758. thousand men, and in five days threw up defences within seventeen miles of Fort Duquesne. On the fifteenth, Washington, who followed, was on Chestnut Ridge; on the seventeenth, at Bushy Run. All, he reported, are in fine spirits and anxious to go on. On the nineteenth, Washington left Armstrong to wait for the Highlanders, and, taking the lead, dispelled by his vigilance every apprehension of the enemy's approach. When on the twenty-fourth, the general encamped his whole party among the hills of Turkey Creek within ten miles of Fort Duquesne, the disheartened garrison, then about five hundred in number, set fire to the fort in the night time, and by the light of its flames
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
herst: Camp at Edge Hill, 5 Aug. 1763. Night intervened, during which the English re- chap. VII.} 1763. Aug. mained on Edge Hill, a ridge a mile to the east of Bushy Run, commodious for a camp except for the total want of water. All that night hope cheered the Red Men. Morning dawned only to show the English party that they we But Bouquet in the two actions lost, in killed and wounded, about one-fourth of his men, Return of killed and wounded in the two actions at Edge Hill, near Bushy Run, the 5th and 6th August, 1763: total killed, 50; wounded, 60; missing, 5. Total of the whole, 115. and almost all his horses; so that he was obliged to destroy his stores, and was hardly able to carry his wounded. That night the English encamped at Bushy Run, and in four days more they arrived at Pittsburg. From that hour the Ohio valley remained securely to the white man. Before the news of the last disaster could reach New-York, the anger of Amherst against the bloody villains kne