{"id":75,"date":"2010-07-16T19:38:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T19:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infj.net\/smith\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2010-08-19T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T03:00:06","slug":"col-henry-bouquet-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/?page_id=75","title":{"rendered":"Col. Henry Bouquet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Henry Boquet - Source: http:\/\/www. libraries. wvu. edu\/ adamstephen\/<\/p><\/div>\n

Col. Henry Bouquet<\/strong> will be most often remembered for his brilliant defeat of the Shawnees, Delawares, Mingos, and Huron tribes at the Battle of Bushy Run on August 5th and 6th 1763. This battle lifted the siege of Fort Pitt and changed the course of that war. The climax of this battle was a charge of the 42nd of Foot the Royal Highland Regiment with broad swords that carried the field.<\/p>\n

Bouquet was born in Rolle, Switzerland in 1719.\u00a0 He began his military career at the age of 17. As a professional soldier he was in the Dutch, Sardinian and Swiss Army before joining the British Army in 1756. He was placed with the 60th of Foot (The Royal American Regiment).\u00a0 Bouquet’s tactics, training and field management of troops would become universal tactics in the British Army more than a hundred years later.\u00a0 The Royal American unit was devised to be better suited for the type of guerilla warfare tactics of the American frontier wilderness than a standard infantry regiment.<\/p>\n

Bouquet accompanied General Forbes in his expedition to Fort Duquesne in 1756 during the French and Indian War.\u00a0 As part of this attack on the French, Bouquet\u00a0was surprised by French troops and their Indian allies near Loyalhanna Creek in present day Westmoreland County.\u00a0 He repulsed the attack and moved on to Fort Duquesne only to find the French had destroyed the fort.\u00a0 Bouquet built a new fort on the site and named it Fort Pitt after the prime minister.<\/p>\n

Bouquet was considered a good officer; however, in history he will share a certain amount of villainy for his role with Jefferey Amherst, the commanding General of British military forces.\u00a0 During the siege of Fort Pitt the idea was raised of infecting the Indians with small pox by giving them blankets from the fort’s smallpox hospital. William Trent’s journal entry from May 24th, 1763 described this event though some historians do not believe it to be true.\u00a0 Shortly after this event was alleged to have happened there\u00a0was an out break of small pox among the Indian tribes.<\/p>\n

In October of 1764 Bouquet\u00a0led a force of 1500 men into Ohio country to bring Pontiacs War to a close. This\u00a0treaty which Bouquet negotiated set in motion his connection to Smith’s Rebellion.\u00a0 It\u00a0was this peace treaty that included the exchange of all white captives held by the Indians.\u00a0 Because the Indians\u00a0were unble to return all white captives until the spring of 1765 the Indian Trade Act of 1763\u00a0was still in effect.<\/p>\n

To aid in these negotiations Bouquet issued a military pass to George Croghan to purchase and deliver trade goods from Philadelphia to Fort Pitt.\u00a0 This was the same\u00a0pass that Croghan used to conceal his own illegal trade goods. The 81 pack horse train that\u00a0was attacked at Sideling Hill on March 6, 1765 set in motion Smith’s Rebellion over the next nine months.<\/p>\n

After this event Bouquet acted only as an information conduit between Fort Loudoun and General Gage, the commanding general of all of\u00a0Britain’s military forces in America. Bouquet died suddenly on September 2, 1765 of what\u00a0was presumed to be yellow fever.\u00a0 He had been promoted to general of British forces in the southern colonies and was in Pensacola, Florida at the time of his death.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Henry Bouquet from Wikipedia – http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Bouquet<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Col. Henry Bouquet and his Campaigns.\u00a0 Cyrus Cort. Westmoreland Co. \u00a0Pennsylvania Bouquet Memorial Committee 1883<\/span><\/p>\n

History of Col. Henry Bouquet and the History of the Western Frontier of Pennsylvania 1747-1764<\/em>.\u00a0 Mary Carson Darlington 1915<\/span><\/p>\n

William Trent’s Journal at Fort Pitt edited by A.T. Volwiler (1922)\u00a0 May 24th, 1763<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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