An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians in the year 1764 under the command of Henry Bouquet / Including his transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of peace. With an introductory account of the preceding campaign, and battle at Bushy-run. To which are annexed military papers, containing reflections on the war with the savages; a method of forming frontier settlements; some account of the Indian country; with a list of nations, fighting men, towns, distances, and different routs. The whole illustrated with a map and copper plates. Published, from authentic documents, by a lover of his country [i.e. W. Smith].

  • Smith, William, 1727-1803.
Date:
1766
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Credit: An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians in the year 1764 under the command of Henry Bouquet / Including his transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of peace. With an introductory account of the preceding campaign, and battle at Bushy-run. To which are annexed military papers, containing reflections on the war with the savages; a method of forming frontier settlements; some account of the Indian country; with a list of nations, fighting men, towns, distances, and different routs. The whole illustrated with a map and copper plates. Published, from authentic documents, by a lover of his country [i.e. W. Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vll Previous to that reinforcement of regulars, 20 voluntiers, all good woodfmen, had been lent to Fort-Ligonier by Capt, Ourry, who commanded at Fort-Bedford another very confiderable magazine of provifions, and mili¬ tary {lores, the principal and centrical ilage between Carlifle and Fort-Pitt, s being about 100 miles diftance from each. This fort was alfo in a ruinous condition, and very weakly garrifoned, although the two fmall intermediate polls, at the erodings of the Juniata and of Stony Creek, had been aban¬ doned to {Lengthen it. Here the diftreffed families, fcattered for 12 or 15 miles round, fled for protection, leaving moil of their effects a prey to the favages. All the neceffary precautions were taken by the commanding officer, to prevent furprize, and repel open force, as alfo to render ineffectual the ene¬ mies fire arrows. He armed all the fighting men, who formed two companies of voluntiers, and did duty with the garrifon till the arrival of two companies of light infantry, detached as foon as poffible from Colonel Bouquet’s little army. These two magazines being fecured, the Colonel advanced to the re- motefl verge of our fettlements, where he could receive no fort of intelli¬ gence of the number, pofition, or motions of the enemy. Not even at Fort-Bedford, where he arrived with his whole convoy on the 25th of July, for tho5 the Indians did not attempt to attack the fort, they had by this time killed, fealped, and taken eighteen perfons in that neighbourhood, and their fculking parties were fo fpread, that at lad no exprefs could efcape them. C6 This55 (want of intelligence) 46 is often a very embarraffing circumflance <c in the condudl of a campaign in America. The Indians had better intel- <c ligence, and no fooner were they informed of the march of our Army, <c than they broke up the fiege of Fort-Pitt, and took the rout by which “ they knew we were to proceed, refolved to take the firft advantageous 46 opportunity of an attack on the march.55 In this uncertainty of intelligence under which the Colonel laboured, he marched from Fort-Bedford the 28th of July, and as foon as he reached Fort-Ligonier, he determined very prudently to leave his waggons at that poll, and to proceed only with the pack horfes. Thus difburdened, the army continued their rout. Before them lay a dangerous defile at Turtle b Creek,