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1763. The engagement resulted in a victory for the British. (1) a Swiss born professional soldier (1) a tenth fort abandoned (1) an expedition was organized to march west to Fort Pitt and then to proceed north and west to re-estabish fallen forts. Colonel Henry Bouquet (1) an Ottawa chief in the Detroit areas (1) and the great strongholds of Pitt and Detroit under seige. The geographic area affected included the present states of Pennsylvania (1) archives (2) archives--Pennsylvania--directories (2) August 1763 (1) bridges (2) Cheating of Delaware Indians (1) colonial history (1) commanded the expedition as it left Carlisle (1) genealogy (3) Grades 3-8 (1) Great Lakes Ohio Valley Resource (2) history (6) History: Pennsylvania (1) Indian revolts quickly spread eastward. His plans were covert until 1763 when attacks on British outposts began. By the end of July (1) Indiana (1) information about the war filtered slowly east to the British high command. Once the scope of the situation was realized in late June (1) Italian-American (2) leading to alliance with French in French and Indian War. (1) Michigan (1) military (1) New York (1) nine British forts were captured (1) Ohio (1) PA/0-164 (1) Pennsylvania (15) Pennsylvania -- Genealogy (2) Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (1) Pennsylvania on July 18th. Indian scouts observed Bouquet’s army marching west along Forbes Road and reported this to the large force of Indians surrounding Fort Pitt. The Indians decided to temporarily end their siege and attack the British expedition (1) Pontiac's War (1) preservation (1) reference (3) retaliated against British policies and control following the collapse of New France at the close of the French and Indian War. Because of Pontiac’s successful advances against the British (1) State Military Histories (1) Tall ship US Brig Niagara (1) Wisconsin and parts of Maryland and West Virginia. Truly this was the greatest Indian threat to the British colonies during the 18th century. Because the Indians so throroughly controlled the frontier (1)

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Includes an alphabetical finding list with two special indexes compiled by Martha L. Simonetti.
 
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