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Identifier: newfrancenewengl00fisk (find matches)
Title: New France and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Subjects: United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 New England -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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mmation which kept him a large part of the time in acutetorture, and it was commonly necessary for him to be carriedThe expedi- ^ Httcr, SO that this campaign might well be saidFort Du-^* to have been conducted by a man upon his death-quesne \^q^ General Forbes, however, had two very ac-tive and capable lieutenants : one was George Washington ;the other was Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Bouquet, a nativeof Switzerland, who had seen much service on the continentof Europe and had entered the English service in 1756.He was destined a few years later, in Pontiacs war, to wina great reputation. The army commanded by General Forbeswith these able lieutenants consisted of about seven thousandmen, partly British regulars, partly the ordinary provincialmilitia, and partly a force known as the Royal Americansand composed chiefly of Pennsylvania Germans. It was amongthese Royal Americans that Bouquet held his commission.The first serious question was the choice of a route. Wash- FORT DUOUESNE III 305
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HENRV BOUQUET ington was in favour of the old route which had been takenby Braddock, but Bouquet thought it would be ^^^ ^^^.^^^better to push westward through the mountains of °^ ■°^^^^Pennsylvania in a course more or less like that now takenby the railroad from Harrisburg to Pittsburg. The opinionof Bouquet found favour with General Forbes and that routewas chosen. 3o6 NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND Forbess method of advance was very different from that of Braddock. Instead of advancing through mile after mile of unknown wilderness, taking with him immensely Forbess method of long baggage trains, Forbess method was to clearthe way and make something of a road as he wentalong, building at intervals sundry blockhouses which mightserve as temporary supports and magazines. This requireda great amount of digging, hewing, blasting, and building,and was a truly Herculean piece of work. Gradually, butsurely, the rude road was carried over the ridges of the Al-leghanies and Laurel Hill, and

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