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 Henry Bouquet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Henry Bouquet (1719 – September 2, 1765) was a noted British army officer in the (A war in North America between France and Britain (both aided by indian tribes); 1755-1760) French and Indian War and (additional info and facts about Pontiac's War) Pontiac's War.
Bouquet was born in (additional info and facts about Rolle) Rolle, (A landlocked federal republic in central Europe) Switzerland, the son of an army officer.
Bouquet and his troops were attacked by French and Indians at Loyalhanna, near present (additional info and facts about Ligonier, Pennsylvania) Ligonier, Pennsylvania, but the attack was repulsed and they continued on to (additional info and facts about Fort Duquesne) Fort Duquesne, only to find it razed by the fleeing French.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/henry_bouquet.htm   (824 words)

  
 Henry Bouquet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Henry Bouquet (1719 – September 2, 1765) was a noted British Army officer in the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War.
On August 5, 1763, Bouquet and the relief column were attacked by warriors from the Delaware, Mingo, Shawnee, and Wyandot tribes at near a small outpost called Bushy Run, in what is now Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
In a series of letters during the summer of 1763 between Bouquet and his commander, General Jeffery Amherst, the idea was raised of infecting the Indians who had besieged Fort Pitt with smallpox by giving them blankets from the fort's smallpox hospital.
thedrugwar.org /wiki/Henry_Bouquet   (773 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Henry Bouquet (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Henry Bouquet[bOOkA´] Pronunciation Key, 1719–65, British army officer in the French and Indian Wars.
A French Swiss, he came to America in 1756 and distinguished himself as second in command to Gen. John Forbes in the successful expedition (1758) against Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh).
In 1764, Bouquet, on an expedition into the Ohio country, forced the Shawnee and other indigenous people to lay down their arms.
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 1794: Henry Bouquet's March Through Beaver County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This find proved to be the surveyor's notes recorded during the march of Bouquet's expedition, in 1764, to the Muskingum Valley, in Ohio, to quell the Indian uprising known as Pontiac's Rebellion and to free all of the white captives held in the Indian towns.
Bouquet's route to Ohio was the "Great Trail" to Sandusky and Detroit, which he followed as far as the Tuscarawas River crossing, where he left it, as did McIntosh.
According to Bouquet's orders and scaled plans, a camp for 1500 and pack train and other animals should cover 53.7 acres, within the lines of the outguards' posts (13.77 acres actually occupied by the camp within the protection of the reserves, camp guards and off-duty personnel).
www.bchistory.org /beavercounty/BeaverCountyTopical/ColonialandEarlySettlers/HenryBouquetMW79/BouquetMarchMW79.html   (6322 words)

  
 Pontiac's Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On October 3, 1764, Colonel Bouquet set out from Fort Pitt with 1,150 men, marching to the Muskingum River in the Ohio Country, within striking distance of a number of native villages.
Bouquet negotiated with Delawares, Shawnees, and Mingos, demanding that they return all captives, including those not yet returned from the French and Indian War.
Some historians question that interpretation, noting that Bouquet was compelled to stop short of his goal of punishing the leaders of the war, since his position in the Ohio Country as winter approached was quite vulnerable.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pontiac's_Rebellion   (4135 words)

  
 Bouquet's Camp
He is assumed to be the ghost of Bouquet himself, and his ghost is most frequently seen near the old watering trough from his campsite.
Bouquet was Swiss-born and fought for the Dutch early in his career, but he eventually led British forces in the New World during major Indian conflicts.
Bouquet had nothing but contempt for the Indians, whom he casually referred to as "savages." When representatives of the warring tribes arrived at his camp at Bolivar, the Delaware chieftain acting as their spokesman made polite overtures.
www.forgottenoh.com /Counties/Coshocton/bouquet.html   (781 words)

  
 Henry Bouquet and Pennsylvania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Henry Bouquet was born in 1719 to a respected and long-established family of Rolle in the Pays de Vaud, Switzerland.
His grandfather Pierre Bouquet was a town official of Rolle, and proprietor and host of the Hotel de la Tete Noire, a hostelry which had belonged to the Bouquet family for a long time.
When Henry was born to Isaac and Madeleine Rolaz Bouquet, it was not to a humble family, but to one of aristocratic connections.
www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/bouquet/page1.asp?secid=31   (503 words)

  
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Colonel Henry Bouquet led a force of 400 British soldiers to break the siege of Fort Pitt.
Bouquet led a force of British into Ohio in 1764 and the Native Americans ended the war by signing a treaty at the Forks of the Muskingum [River].
According to Bouquet, the Battle on Edge Hill was a series of charges and withdrawals back to their perimiter at the top of Edge Hill prior to the flanking movement.
people.delphiforums.com /MCCONAUGHY/bushyrun/bushyrun.htm   (494 words)

  
 Henry Bouquet and Pennsylvania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
On October 3, 1764, Colonel Henry Bouquet set out on the last important campaign of his career, to invade the home villages of the Indians along the Muskingum River in Ohio.
Henry Bouquet was one of the major military figures of colonial American history, and the first important professional soldier in Pennsylvania history.
Had Bouquet not broken the Indian power at Bushy Run and on the Muskingum, the settlement of western Pennsylvania would have been delayed for many years, and the American patriots of Revolutionary days would have had no foothold beyond the mountains from which to establish a claim to the western territories.
www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/bouquet/page4.asp?secid=31   (633 words)

  
 Volume 5 - Chapter 5: The Bouquet Expedition
Colonel Bouquet in the spring of 1764 was given command of all the British forces in Pennsylvania and other colonies to the south.
Croghan, on June 17th, sent a note from Bedford to Bouquet that it is his opinion the Six Nations of New York knew in advance of the plans of the "Dellaway" to join other western nations to attack the English but did not reveal these plans to the whites.
Bouquet informed the Governor he intended to send the captives to Carlisle, and that he had succeeded in delivering several captives to their families who were at Pitt.
www.everettarea.org /tales/v05/v05c05.htm   (4366 words)

  
 Bedford Homepage home Page 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bouquet states that a 5 mile radius of Fort Bedford is deprived of wood and feed for the animals.
Bouquet orders Major Grant to build the road from Boswell to Ligonier, Grant was famous for later attacking Fort Pitt with his troops and losing to the larger French troops.The attack was unauthorized by General Forbes.
Bouquet wries to Forbes that all the troops are encamped at Bedford in several enclosed squares with log walls and ditches with abattis and guards on constant duty at them.
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 Bouquet Papers. Stephens Surname
Bouquet to Stanwix, Ft. Bedford, Sept 16, 1759.
Francis Fauquier to Col. Henry Bouquet, Williamsburg, 5 Sept. 1764.
Francis Fauquier to Col. Henry Bouquet, Williamsburg, 13 Sept 1764.
www.gulfcoastplus.com /stephensj/bouquet.html   (781 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Pontiac's Rebellion : Course of the War (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
Major Henry Gladwin, the commandant, was warned of the plot and foiled it.
Bouquet and his forces, on their way to Fort Pitt in Aug., 1763, had been victorious in a severe engagement at Bushy Run.
Bouquet, by his campaign in Pennsylvania, brought the Delaware and the Shawnee to sue for peace, and a treaty was concluded with them by Sir William Johnson.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Pontiacs-course-of-the-war.html   (489 words)

  
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Bouquet to Sir Jeffery Amherst, (Fort Pitt, Oct. 5, 1762), Bouquet, Henry in: B. M., Add.
Croghan to Col. Henry Bouquet, (Nov. 25, 1762), Croghan, George in: Series 21648, pp.
Croghan to Col. Henry Bouquet, (Fort Pitt, Dec. 10, 1762), Croghan, George in: Series 21648, pp.
www.gbl.indiana.edu /archives/miamis13/miamitoc15.html   (1049 words)

  
 CRL - United States - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The military papers of Colonel Henry Bouquet, Brigadier General of America, Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal American Regiment, 1754-1764.
Bouquet was a British army officer in the French and Indian Wars.
In 1764, Bouquet led an expedition into the Ohio Country that was part of a larger British effort to reduce hostilities with the Native Americans in the West.
wwwcrl.uchicago.edu /content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=56   (1991 words)

  
 Elizabeth A. Fenn | Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst | The Journal of ...
On June 16, 1763, Ecuyer reported to Col. Henry Bouquet at Philadelphia that the frontier outpost's situation had taken a turn for the worse.
For this reason I have had a hospital built under the bridge beyond musket-fire." Henry Bouquet, in a letter dated June 23, passed the news on to Jeffery Amherst, the British commander in chief, at New York.
Unbeknownst to both Bouquet and his commander in chief, their subordinates at Fort Pitt had already conceived and executed the very plan proposed.
www.brad.ac.uk /acad/sbtwc/other/ethics/readings/fenn.html   (2586 words)

  
 Henry Bouquet
BOUQUET, Henry, British soldier, born in Rolle, Switzerland, in 1719; died in Pensacola, Fla., in February 1766.
On 12 October Bouquet was attacked by a body of French and Indians at Loyal Hanna, but repelled them, and was present at the capture of the fort on 24 November In 1763 Bouquet, then in command at Philadelphia, was ordered to the relief of the same fort, then called Fort Pitt (now Pittsburghh).
The troops were on a hill where no water could be obtained, and Bouquet, seeing that a change of plan was necessary, feigned retreat to bring the enemy together in a compact body.
www.famousamericans.net /henrybouquet   (638 words)

  
 Early History of the Boquet River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Henry Harmon Noble, who has had every opportunity' to examine documents bearing upon the subject in the State Historian '5 office.
As examples of Henry's character, Koert noted that the Colonel ordered 100 blood hounds from England to track down the illusive Indians, and later, carried out one of the earliest known uses of germ warfare against the tribes.
Bouquet had blankets infected with smallpox, delivered to Mingoel, Delaware, and Showanoe tribes, causing many men, women, and children to die under horrible circumstances.
www.essexny.net /about/boquet.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Fort Necessity-French and Indian War Education Program
Bouquet ended up doing much of the work, because Forbes was so ill. He was with the British army in Western Pennsylvania throughout the rest of the French and Indian War.
Bouquet was given the responsibility of delivering troops and supplies to the fort.
Bouquet and the troops used the flour sacks as a makeshift fort.
www.nps.gov /fone/classroom/fiwar/biography_5th.htm   (9423 words)

  
 Fort Ligonier: Raising Our Sites
The regiment, and especially the battalion led by Henry Bouquet, drew its recruits mainly from the middle colonies, provinces that also had sizable numbers of freedmen-and women.
They mingled with a wide array of peoples and cultures-including Indians, both as friends and enemies; they got a taste of the sheer expansiveness of life in a land where resources seemed limitless, where land was cheap, and where the intermixing of peoples was already producing a distinctive way of life.
Mercer to Bouquet, Jan. 29, 1759, in Kent et al., eds., Papers of Bouquet, III, 93; Mercer to Bouquet, Aug. 28, 1759, ibid., 629.
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Col. Henry Bouquet and His Campaigns of 1763 and 1764.
History of Colonel Henry Bouquet and the Western Frontiers of Pennsylvania 17471654.
Bouquet's March to the Ohio: The Forbes Road.
carlisle-www.army.mil /usamhi/bibliographies/referencebibliographies/Biographies/bouquethenri.doc   (222 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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 Fort Bedford located at Fort Bedford Ave. Bedford,Pa. 15522   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In 1758, Colonel Bouquet's forces built a fort in Edmund's Swamp in advance of General Forbes' expedition to attack Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War.
Forbes writes to Bouquet upset about the slowness of the Forbes expedition and how other expeditions are allready over and The Forbes troops have done nothing to date with the enemy.
Bouquet arrives at FORT LIGONIER with troops and writs to sinclair about the conditions of the fort, area, and supplies/wagons.
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 Encyclopedia: Henry Bouquet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military.
Westmoreland County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania.
Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of any organism (bacteria, virus or other disease-causing organism) or toxin found in nature, as a weapon of war.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Henry-Bouquet   (1976 words)

  
 Index to Documents & ASCII texts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Colonel Henry Bouquet to General Amherst, dated 13 July 1763, [262k] suggests in a postscript the distribution of blankets to "inocculate the Indians" ; microfilm reel 34/40, item 305.
Amherst to Bouquet, dated 16 July 1763, [128k] approves this plan in a postscript and suggests as well as "to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race" ; microfilm reel 34/41, item 114.
Bouquet to Amherst, dated 23 June 1763, [189k] stating that Captain Ecuyer has reported smallpox in Fort Pitt; microfilm reel 34/40, item 281.
www.nativeweb.org /pages/legal/amherst/jeff_docs.html   (343 words)

  
 BATTLE OF BUSHY RUN
Departing Carlisle, PA on the 18th of July, 1763, was a relief force of some 450 Highland and Royal American forces, ably led by Colonel Henry Bouquet, who earlier had carved this venue through the wilderness and then built Fort Ligonier.
Flags, Tales and Seamus, part of that guard, fell back and Col. Bouquet sent the 42nd forward to repulse the savages until the troops and strategy was set.
The troops moved forward, but being attacked on all flanks, fell back to protect the convoy, part of that convoy being the famous "flour bags" which were to be a boon to His Majesty's troops.
www.mohicanpress.com /bushy_run.html   (1568 words)

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