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Here We Go AgainAn unknown artist's conception of thecounter attack on Day 2 at Bushy Run by theScottish Highlander and Royal Americanregiments. It turned the tide of thebattle and brought about the end of majorhostilities in Pontiac's War.The French and IndianWar, which was part of the world-wide Seven YearsWar, officially ended with the signing of the.Unofficially, it had ended three years earlier after thefall of Montreal.

The French, too broke to continue thefight and with no major bases left, ceased hostilities inNorth America. Between 1760 and 1763, while the restof the world was still fighting, the British in NorthAmerica were consolidating and starting to govern theirnew territories.Great Britain now ownedthe Ohio River Valley and the Great Lakes Basin.Together, they ran from the Appalachian Mountains to theMississippi River and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ofMexico. This was a huge area that was rich inresources such as furs, lumber and farmland. It was alsohome to a large number of Native Americans, who had beenfighting among themselves over this bountiful area foryears.

In fact, some of the major players in theregion, such as the Delaware and Shawnee, had migratedhere from back east. Most of the tribes had sidedwith the French at the beginning of the war but had beenenticed to leave them halfway through it. The enticementwas the,By 1758, there had beenheavy fighting in the Ohio River Valley theater of the warfor four years, with the British getting the worst of it.Fort Duquesne had been the main base of French operationsthe whole time. Capturing it was vital. That missionfell to General John Forbes and his 6,000 man army.Instead of using Braddock's Road, his force hacked yetanother road through the mountains to get to theobjective. This road, called the Forbes Road,followed an old trading path called the Raystown Trailfrom Bedford to The Forks. Although longer, the trail wasin better shape and the route had fewer river crossings.It would also force the French to prepare for an attackfrom two directions.

The road they blazed is still in usetoday as the path that Route 30 takes through those samemountains. A map showing the trace of both theForbes and Braddock Roads along with key pointsand battles.Part of Forbes' strategyfor Fort Duquesne was to separate the French fromtheir Native American allies. Without the Indians, theFrench were no match for the British. He sentMoravian missionaries, who were on good terms with theNative Americans, to the tribes with an offer.If the Indians would abandon the French, the British(after winning the war, of course) would return theirlands, withdraw all troops and allow no white settlementwest of the Allegheny Mountains.The Indian nations,tired of fighting and hoping to back a winner, accepted.The treaty was signed in October 1758 while Forbes wasclosing in on Fort Duquesne. The French were left tofend for themselves as an uneasy truce settled over theregion. Realizing they couldn't hold the fort ontheir own, the French burned and abandoned it on November26, 1758. The British entered the next day andstarted building Fort Pitt, which anchored Britishoperations in the west for the next decade.

The capture ofFort Duquesne was the beginning of the end for the French.The tide of the war turned and less than two years later,they were done.General Forbes, who hadbeen seriously ill for much of the journey, left Fort Pittseveral days later for Philadelphia. He died there inearly March 1759.

His second-in-command, Colonel HenryBouquet, took over. Bouquet was a Swiss national whohad spent the last 20 years as a soldier-of-fortune. Hehad seen much action in numerous European campaigns beforejoining the British Army and had come to America tofight. Unlike many British officers, he understoodfrontier tactics, trained his men in them and skillfullyemployed them. Tactically, he may have been the bestthe British had. He would be the British commanderat Bushy Run five years later.The recently renovated Fort PittMuseum. Incorporating the only remainingstructure of the original fort, its two floors and12000 square feet contain information and exhibitsfrom all the major battles in westernPennsylvania, including Bushy Run.

It islocated in Point State Park, at the junction ofthe three rivers.With hostilitiessubsiding, the Indian nations began to settle into theirpromised homes and hunting grounds. However, almostimmediately, white settlers started swarming west throughPennsylvania, into Ohio and beyond. Even though suchactivity was forbidden by the Treaty of Easton and byroyal proclamation, the pent up demand for land andresources could not be stopped.

The settlers simplyignored the government. The British Crown, deeply indebt from the war, needed the commerce revenue and lookedthe other way.Meanwhile, the Britishcontinued to militarize the entire region. Theybuilt new forts or occupied old French ones. Many ofthem were simply outposts, with a small blockhouse and adozen troops. Two exceptions were Fort Detroit andFort Pitt, which were substantial fortificationsgarrisoned by hundreds of men and backed up withartillery. By 1763, Fort Pitt was the largest fort inNorth America, enclosing 17 acres.

An entire townhad built up around it to support its activities -Pittsburgh.To make mattersworse, British administrators and bureaucrats weretone deaf. They made no attempt to establish rapportwith the native tribes, which the French had done quiteeffectively.

They instituted trade rules which forbade thesales of powder and bullets to the Indians, but allowedalcohol. They also cut way back on the amount of goodsavailable to the Indians at trading posts.The Indians could onlywatch and seethe as their worst case scenario unfolded.Tensions skyrocketed throughout the region andfinally reached the breaking point. Only threemonths after the Treaty of Paris, the American frontierexploded again. A map showing a summary ofaction during Pontiac's War. Once it gotstarted, it spread quickly throughout the GreatLakes Basin and the Ohio River Valley.Although relatively short, it was exceedinglybrutal and violent and emptied the newly settledfrontier.

By the time it was over, upwardsof 1500 farms and settlements had beenabandoned. Thousands of settlerswere killed, kidnapped or fled.

It tookyears for the frontier to recover.The spark that set offthe explosion was a chief of the Ottawa tribe namedPontiac. Even though he has a war named after him,little is known about him prior to 1760. Dungeon hunter champions. He was astalwart supporter of the French and when the Britishbegan to take over New France, he started urgingviolent resistance against them. As British dealingswith the Indians got worse and worse from 1760-1763,tribal leaders in the Great Lakes region started to alignthemselves with Pontiac.

Leaders in other regions startedadvocating resistance also but nobody wanted to be thefirst to tangle with the British.On May 8, 1763, Pontiactook action. With 900 warriors, he attacked FortDetroit. When the attack failed, he laid siege toit, something which Indians had never done before.With the troops bottled up in the fort, Pontiac's rebelsscoured the countryside, killing everything they cameacross except for French settlers, who were left alone.Word spread quicklythroughout the region. Angry frustrated tribesjoined in the resistance. They attacked forts,settlements and homesteads without mercy.

ThroughMay and June of 1763, eight British forts were attackedand burned. A ninth, Fort Edward Augustus inpresent-day Green Bay, was abandoned. Many of the soldiersin them were killed outright. The ones who wereunlucky enough to survive were burned at the stake. Afew managed to escape, bringing first hand knowledge ofthe carnage.Settlers and homesteadswere also targeted. It was the ultimate aim of therebellion to drive them out and it succeeded. Withinweeks, the formerly bustling frontier region was almostdevoid of settlement.Up to this point, theBritish had not reacted. They considered the uprisingto be a local problem.

That changed when mighty Fort Pittitself became a target. The Siege of Fort PittA diorama of Fort Pitt as it appearedduring Pontiac's War. The red arrow pointsto Bushy Run, which is about 20 miles away as thecrow flies.

Under siege for two months, it was atough nut to crack but the Indians cameclose. The loss of Fort Pitt would have beena disaster for the British, but it was preventedby the victory at Bushy Run.On May 29, 1763, a forceof 500 Indians attacked Fort Pitt.

The fort fendedoff the attack and the Indians laid siege to it.Indians knew little of siege warfare and didn't have theequipment or firepower necessary to do it. Instead,besieging a fort meant cutting it off, harassing it,terrifying it and pillaging the surrounding area.With the British garrison trapped inside, Indians raidersran amok in western Pennsylvania, western Maryland anddown into Virginia.Prior to beingcompletely cut off, the commander of Fort Pitt, CaptainSimeon Ecuyer, got a message through to Fort Ligonierinforming them of his situation. Then there wasnothing. Fort Ligonier was 40 miles to the east along theForbes Road and was itself attacked twice in June.The attacks were unsuccessful in taking the fort butserved as a warning that the area between it and Fort Pittwas hostile and impassable. No one knew the fate ofFort Pitt.The British commander inNorth America, General Jefferey Amherst, assigned ColonelHenry Bouquet to lead a relief expedition to FortPitt. Bouquet assembled and trained his force atCarlisle, then moved out along the Forbes Road on July15.

They reached Fort Ligonier on August 2 after atough march over the mountains with artillery, wagons andover 500 head of cattle, sheep and horses. Theyspent two days resting and reorganizing for their trekacross 40 miles of hostile territory. They left theartillery and wagons behind, transferring all supplies tohorses - over 300 of them plus some sheep and cattle tofeed the defenders of Fort Pitt. Bouquet's original forceof 600 men had been whittled down by heat, illness and theneed to reinforce garrisons along the way. When heleft Ligonier on August 4, he had 400 men.

Theirinitial destination was a way station about halfway toFort Pitt. Bouquet himself had established itseveral years earlier to enhance the lines ofcommunication along the Forbes Road. The stationitself had already been destroyed but it still had goodwater and forage for the livestock.

It was named after thestream (called 'runs' by us mountain folk) that ran rightnext to it - Bushy Run Station.The siege of Fort Pittcontinued without let up throughout the months of June andJuly. Conditions were getting worse.Frightened settlers seeking shelter had ballooned thefort's usual contingent of 300 to over 1500 people.Food was running out. Smallpox had hit the post.Twice, the Indians parlayed and offered the garrison safepassage if they surrendered. Suspecting treachery,Ecuyer refused. At the second parlay, he gave theIndians blankets from the smallpox hospital hoping toinfect them. It didn't appear to work because theIndians stepped up the pressure. They were alreadytracking Bouquet's relief force.

If they were going totake the fort, it had to be soon.The last week of July,they came from all directions, day and night, firingnon-stop. They were up against the walls trying todig, chop or burn their way in.

Ecuyer's men droppedgrenades, hot liquids and whatever else they could find onthem. This went on for five days. Then, on August 1,the siege lifted.

Patrols ventured out cautiouslyand reported that the area was clear. Captain Ecuyercorrectly surmised that a relief force must be closingin. The defenders of Fort Pitt could do nothing butwait. The Indians had moved to intercept Bouquet'scolumn. They would ambush them in the dense rattlesnakeinfested forest near Bushy Run Station. Bouquet Sets Out. Was built by the ForbesExpedition in 1758 to protect their lines ofcommunication on the way to Fort Duquesne.Located in the western foothills of theAllegheny Mountains, it was the last safe havenbefore heading off to The Forks and was the siteof a major battle during the French and IndianWar - the.

It was akey staging area during Pontiac's War and wasattacked twice in June 1763. This wasColonel Bouquet's jumping off point.

Heknew the fort well because he built it.After seeing extensive service in two wars, thefort was abandoned in 1766.Bouquet's relief forcehad some tough hombres. Bouquet himself was anexperienced wilderness fighter. His men were equallybattle worthy. The bulk of them were Scottish Highlandersfrom the 42nd (Black Watch) Regiment and the 77th(Montgomerie's Highlanders) Regiment.

There was also alarge contingent from the 60th (Royal American)Regiment. The 60th was like the Foreign Legion -recruits from other countries, the colonies and Britishvolunteers commanded by foreign officers. Instead ofswords, they all carried hatchets or tomahawks. This was Bouquet's homeregiment.All of them had seenextensive action throughout the war. The Highlandershad most recently fought in the Caribbean campaignsagainst both the French and the Spanish. Many wererecovering from various tropical diseases. BothHighland regiments were at Staten Island waiting to rotatehome when they got the call to meet Bouquet in Carlisle,Pennsylvania.

Off they went, marching towards thesound of the guns. Even in their depleted condition, theywere a formidable force.The colonial militia hada very small role in Pontiac's War. The British hadsufficient troops in country to fight on their own andthey didn't trust the colonials. Bouquet did retaina force of 20 local rangers (irregulars) as scouts andguides. Also along were 50 civilian teamsters andwranglers, who would tend to the livestock.The relief forcedeparted Fort Ligonier early on August 4.

They marched 12miles that day and made a hasty encampment along the road. Day1 - August 5, 1763'One Mile to Bushy Run Station' by Robert Griffing Theartist shows his characteristic historicalaccuracy and attention to detail in thispainting depicting the battle on August 5.Note the old growth timber and the deep shadowsat midday. Bouquet's lead elements aredirectly in front of you. The column isstrung up the hill to the right as small groupsof soldiers advance into the attackers'positions. Even though the timber is gone,the topography can still be seen today.The original of this painting hangs on the wallat the Bushy Run Battlefield Visitor's Center.August 5 would be 20more miles in the August heat. They broke campbefore sun up. Bouquet knew the area well andplanned a route to avoid the most likely ambushsites.

Moving tactically, with the rangers screeninghis movement, the day progressed without contact. Even so,there was no doubt in his mind they were being watched.By 1:00 PM, his leadelements were only a mile from Bushy Run Station.The column was strung out for quite a ways, with thelivestock far behind. It was very hot and humid.Everyone was feeling the effects of both. It wasstarting to look like the day would pass withoutincident.

That's just the way the Indians hadfigured it. The selection of this place for theambush was no accident. They were laying in wait ready topounce when they knew the soldiers would be at their mostvulnerable.Bouquet's column entereda gully between two hills. The rest of the columnformed a giant L that snaked out of the gully and went upthe hill to the east. There was only one more ridge line totheir west before getting to the station. The Indianssprang the trap.They opened fire on thelead elements. The rest of the ambushers beganranging along the flanks of the column. TheHighlanders volley fired but hit nothing.

Then, asBouquet had trained them to do, they began advancing intothe trees to engage their attackers, only to find they hadalready moved. A view of the August 5 battle area fromthe attackers' position. The column camedown the Forbes Road, bent into an L shape wherethe amphitheater now is and walked into theambush site.

The retrograde was back upthe same way. The trees in the middle ofthe hillside follow the path of the ForbesRoad.

The battle position on Edge Hill isjust off the upper right hand corner of thepicture. The red arrow shows the directionto Bushy Run Station. Keep in mind thatthis entire area was heavily forested, much likeyou see in the distance.Although they werefighting hard, Bouquet's force was totally reactive andunable to seize any sort of momentum. They chargedaggressively but the Indians simply melted away and poppedup somewhere else, working their way down both sides ofthe column.

If they got to the lightly defended packtrain, the British would have another wilderness debacleon their hands. They had to get out of there andre-group.Bouquet ordered afighting retreat back up the slope to the top of EdgeHill. Using a box formation that provided a movingfighting perimeter, the British were able to extricatethemselves from the kill zone and bring out thewounded.

The dead were left behind. Ontop of the hill was a 10 acre clearing ringed on all sidesby forest. The British hoped their open fieldtactics of massed volley fire would be more effective. TheIndians stayed in the trees and fired at individualtargets, refusing to be drawn out in the open.Meanwhile, Bouquetordered a circular stockade built using the hundreds ofmealy bags tied to the pack horses. This was the famous'flour bag fort.'

The livestock, supplies andwounded were all crammed inside. It would also serveas a redoubt for a last stand if it came to that.They went back and forthfor several more hours. The British soldiers, forming upin the open field, volley fired into the woods thenadvanced with bayonets.

The Indians used the forestas cover while individually shooting and moving. Theentire hill top was shrouded in smoke and it hung thickunder the trees where no wind could get at it.The fighting stopped when night fell. The British hadgotten the worst of the hilltop exchange. The flourbag fort was full of wounded and many pack animals hadbeen killed.

The British soldiers spent a harrowing,sleepless night on the perimeter at the edge of theforest. It was pitch black, with a waningcrescent moon that didn't rise until the pre-dawnhours. The night was full of the cries of the wounded,skittish animals and the occasional war whoop from theforest.By candlelightthat night, Bouquet wrote a letter to General Amherst,explaining in detail what had happened that day, includingdiagrams and sketches.

He also outlined his plansfor the next day and what he thought the enemy woulddo. These letters have survived and are thedefinitive account of the Battle of Bushy Run. It'salso clear from his writing that Bouquet did not expecthis force to survive. Day2 - August 6, 1763'Bushy Run' by Don Troiani Mr.Troiani is one of America's premier historicalartists.

Though best known for his workfrom the Civil War era, he deals with a widerange of subjects, all thoroughly researched anddone in painstaking detail. Here he recreatesthe counter attack of the Black Watch againstnative American warriors on day 2 of the Battleof Bushy Run. This little known battlesaved Fort Pitt and ended Pontiac's War.As the first gray hintof dawn lightened the eastern sky, Bouquet's men startedhearing something that had terrified British soldiers onthe frontier for years - the blood curdling war cries and'scalp halloos' of the Indian braves.

They were allaround them and getting closer. Fighting startedagain at first light. They picked up where they leftoff the day before. British casualties continued tomount and the Indians were tightening the noose.Once they had thinned the British ranks enough, they wouldswarm over the hilltop and finish them all. Somehow,Bouquet had to get them out in the open in sufficientnumbers while he still had the firepower to stop them.Then the Indian fighterin him came up with a scheme. It was a common tacticfor Indians to leave defenders with an escape route.There were two reasons for this. Encircled defenderswith no escape fought like demons and took as manyattackers with them as they could.

Native American tribeshad to conserve manpower, so they often left a wayout. If the defenders took it, the Indians could letthem go or run them down individually or in groups insteadof attacking into massed fire.Bouquet realized thatthere had been no attacks from the east side of the hill,which went down a steep slope and into a woodedgully. He pulled two companies of the Black Watchout of the line and sent them over the hill like they werebugging out. The perimeter was pulled in closer tothe stockade and the gap created by the 'bug out'was filled in by the remaining troops.

There was nowa wide swath of open ground between the forest andthe perimeter that the Indians had to sprint across tooverrun the position. The soldiers loaded their rifleswith double shot. A view of Edge Hill from right aboutwhere the Indians were gathering for their finalrush. The hill top was open like this butthe area was probably not quite as big.The flour bag fort is labeled on the right. Thisis as far as the Indians would get.Minutes later, the hillside was covered withcharging highlanders.The Indians took thebait. After seeing the soldiers run off, theygathered in the woods facing the south side of the hilland prepared to stampede through the razor thin perimeteras they had done so many times before in battles with thewhites.

Meanwhile, the two companies of Highlanders,led by Major Alan Campbell, were doing a fish hook usingthe hill as a screen and were coming up on the right flankof the now concentrated attackers.As the Indians brokecover, Edge Hill exploded. The perimeter fireda tremendous volley into them. Then the Black Watchslammed into their rear and right flank, first with shotthen with blade. The Indians, stunned and takencompletely by surprise, turned to meet the newthreat. Two more companies charged out of theperimeter and screamed down the hill, their bayonets,swords and hatchets ready to go. The Indians brokeand ran, with four companies in hot pursuit.

Theychased them to the top of the ridge overlooking Bushy RunStation and set up a defensive position. Bouquet's gambithad worked.With the benefit of20/20 hindsight, history tells us that Bouquet had justwon the Battle of Bushy Run with a decisive victory.He had also saved Fort Pitt, ended Pontiac's War in theregion and dispersed the Indians back to their villages.On the field, in real time, none of that wasobvious. Bouquet's force still had big problems toovercome, a fort to relieve that was 26 miles away and nota lot of time to do it.A Google Earth View of Bushy Run Battlefield. A Google Earth overhead view of theentire battlefield, which is only 6/10 of amile east-west and less than 1/4 milenorth-south.

Bouquet's force came fromthe right and advanced to the left to FortPitt. The blue lines are the estimated finalperimeter on Day 2. The red fish hook is thecounter attack path of the Highlanders.The red line to the west shows the area wherethe unlocated mass grave is reported to be. Afully interactive version of this map, withadditional locations, notes and pictures, canbe viewed by clicking anywhere in the aboveimage.BouquetRegroupsThe view of the battlefield from EdgeHill and Bouquet's route to Fort Pitt after thebattle. The ambush site is labeled.Bushy Run Station was just over that nextridgeline. The area around the group oftrees and power line on top of that ridge is wherethe mass grave is thought to be located.

Fort Pittis 20 miles as the crow flies in that samedirection.Colonel Bouquet's forcehad survived. The immediate crisis was over but themission to relieve Fort Pitt was not. When lastseen, the Indians were headed west - back towards the fortand along Bouquet's march route. For all anyone knew, theycould be waiting up ahead or going back to the fort tofinish the job - or both.The battle had beencostly. The relief column was short of men, horsesand water in addition to being exhausted from three daysof non-stop marching and fighting in the muggyPennsylvania summer.

By Bouquet's own count, theyhad 50 dead and 60 wounded. Five soldiers weremissing. It wasn't much of a relief column at thispoint, but it was Fort Pitt's only hope. They gotready to move.Supplies that couldn'tbe carried were burned. Injured animals werekilled.

Since they had no wagons, litters had to bemade and carried for the wounded. The situation wasso fluid and the manpower so short that Bouquet couldn'trisk getting a message to Fort Pitt. Sending two orthree men would be a suicide mission and a force bigenough to fight its way through would leave him withnothing.They moved out towardsBushy Run Station, where they would stay until August8th. During that time, burial parties gatheredup the British dead and buried them in a mass grave on topof the ridge from which they had been ambushed on August5.

Called Chestnut Ridge by the locals, it wasdownhill from there to the station. The location ofthe mass grave was never recorded and despite years oflooking, it has never been found.As it turns out, themove to Fort Pitt was uneventful and they arrived there onAugust 10 to find the Union Jack still flying. Thecrippled force covered 26 miles through hostile territoryin three days. The Indian menace in the immediate area hadbeen neutralized. Still, the threat was thereand it would be some time before things got back tonormal.

Highlandsoldiers from the 77th Regiment tear into their enemy on Day 2, turningthe tables at Bushy Run and taking the fight out of the tribes. BushyRun was a wake up call for the Indians, who realized they couldn'tsustain the casualties they suffered in the two day fight. Bouquetwent on to relieve Fort Pitt and the Indians went home to re-think thiswhole rebellion thing. The Bushy Run Battlefield is the only preservedbattlefield in the country from Pontiac's War.Bushy Run effectivelyended Pontiac's War in the east. The number ofIndians in the battle is generally estimated at around 400with 40-60 casualties. It's quite likely that theyhad fewer men and fewer casualties than Bouquet, but thenumbers alone don't tell the whole story.

The nativeAmericans had run into competent leadership and ferociousfighters at Bushy Run and had paid a fearsome price.They couldn't afford to lose 40-50 braves in everybattle. There simply weren't that many ofthem. On the other hand, the Anglos had almostunlimited manpower to draw on.To put it inperspective, historians estimate that there were 50,000Native Americans living in the region with 10,000braves.

The European colonists numbered well over amillion with more arriving every day. If the war turnedinto a battle of attrition, the Indians didn't have achance. They had to conserve manpower or faceextinction. That meant no more Bushy Runs.

Itmeant avoiding major direct engagements and trying tonegotiate the best deal they could while they still hadsome leverage. The goonies instagram. Before long, that realization wouldcome to the rest of the Indian nations and to Pontiachimself. The fearsome coalition that had terrorized thefrontier for months began to fracture.

Soon, theindividual deal making would begin.In the Great Lakes area,Fort Detroit was still under siege but holding its own,reinforced by British warships in the Detroit River.In October, the winter snows came early and Pontiac brokeoff the siege.The war picked up againin the spring in the form of isolated raids. Thefrontier was still dangerous for settlers but a reinforcedand more aggressive British army had the tribes onthe run. Colonel Bouquet commanded the last Britishforay in October 1764. He led 1500 men to thejunction of the Muskingum and Tuscarawas Rivers nearpresent-day Coshocton, Ohio, about 120 miles due west ofPittsburgh. There he waited for the Indians toattack.

Instead, they sent an offer to parlay.Bouquet secured the release of several hundred whitecaptives and negotiated a truce with the Indians - allwithout firing a shot. For all intents and purposes,that was the end of the fighting. It would take another 20months of negotiations, compromise and politics before aformal peace treaty officially ended the war in July 1766.Ironically,Colonel Bouquet did not live to see the end of the war hehad a major part in winning. Promoted to BrigadierGeneral in April, 1765, he was assigned command ofBritain's new southern territories, headquartered inPensacola, Florida. He arrived there in August andalmost immediately went down with yellow fever. Hedied on September 2, 1765 and is buried in St. Michael'sCemetery in Pensacola.

However, his exact resting placethere is unmarked and unknown, lost to history, urbandevelopment and the elements.Historyis full of examples of the right man being at the rightplace at the right time to make a difference when itmattered most. Colonel Henry Bouquet at Bushy Runwas one of those men. If he had been a typicalBritish officer with a typical British army unit, theyprobably would have been annihilated just like. Instead, theyheld on, improvised and beat the Indians at their owngame, giving them a real wake up call in theprocess. Historians consider Colonel Bouquet to bethe best field commander the British had at thattime.

If he had survived to see the AmericanRevolution and if he had fought for the British, it wouldhave been interesting to see if the right man/rightplace/right time scenario might have changed our ownhistory.Pontiac lostconsiderable influence when he botched the initial attack on FortDetroit and then had to break off the siege. Hiscoalition fragmented and many turned against him.The British used him as their main point of contact duringnegotiations, which was another sore spot for thetribes. Ostracized by his own people after the war,he lived quietly with his family on the banks of theMaumee River. On April 20, 1769, he was beatento death by another Indian at a trading post in Cahokia,Illinois. The circumstances of his death have beenvariously attributed to a random act of violence, anIndian reprisal and a British assassination. His exact burial place is unknown.Bushy Run was a decisivebattle that altered the course of events in North America.It marked the beginning of the end for the NativeAmericans' way of life and opened the floodgates forwestern migration and settlement. Within a fewyears, the battle ground region of Pennsylvania was nolonger the frontier. Fort Ligonier was abandoned in1766.

Fort Pitt was turned over to the colonials in1772.Fort Detroit has aninteresting historical footnote. The Britishmaintained a significant presence there long after theyhad abandoned the other forts. Since it was so far west,it had no involvement in the Revolutionary War.However, it was not part of the 13 colonies, so whenAmerica won its independence, Fort Detroit remainedBritish. They continued to operate from there andstarted causing trouble on the western frontier of the newnation. Using Native Americans, they fought a proxyguerilla war in present-day Illinois and Ohio for yearsafter US independence.

It wasn't until the JayTreaty in 1796 that Fort Detroit and the surroundingterritory were ceded to the United States. Theywould be contested again during the War of 1812.

A gorgeous fall day at Bushy RunBattlefield ParkAs for the battlefielditself, it became a farm owned by the Wanamakerfamily. The battle went unrecognized for over 100years. In 1883, on the 120th anniversary, a memorialceremony was held on Edge Hill.

Ten thousand peopleshowed up, sparking interest in preservation. Thoseefforts have continued to this day. In 1929, theWanamakers sold their farm to the state. Additional landpurchases have been made to protect adjacent areas.The Bushy RunBattlefield is beautiful and well cared for, with almostno urban encroachment. One of the unique things aboutit is that you can see the whole battle area from anypoint on the field.

It's very compact - 1,000 yardsfrom east to west and about 300 yards from north to south.It is the only preserved battlefield in North America fromPontiac's War and the only recognized Native Americanbattlefield in Pennsylvania. Drastic state budgetcuts have made for some tough times and the park hasrecently struggled to stay open and maintained.There is an ongoing fund raising campaign. To learn moreor make a donation, hereis a link to the.R.I.P. Bushy Run Station 1761 to 1776R.I.P Bushy Run StationUnfortunately, the samecannot be said for Bushy Run Station.

It was establishedin 1761, destroyed in the Indian raids of 1763 andre-built after Pontiac's War. It serviced travelers of allkinds, including settlers, soldiers and Indians until theoutbreak of the American Revolution, when it was abandonedfor good.

No trace of it remains. The entire areawas paved over decades ago without even a plaque ormarker. In fact, the site is downright ugly, butthat's progress.

Given all the travelers and history thatmoved through here, it must be an archaeological gold mine.Inthe summer of 2012, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportationcommissioned an archaeological exploration on the site in the picture.Building roads with federal money requires this if there is apossibility of historically significant sites or human remains in theright of way. An extensive survey was done looking specifically forBushy Run Station.

This writer was involved in it. Numerous artifactswere found, including what appeared to be the stone foundation of anold homestead.

However, the archaeologists involved assessed that therewere no connections to Bushy Run Station and the road building wentforward. No records or accounts or drawings of Bushy Run Station areknown to exist. Where ever it is, it's gone forever.

Visiting Bushy Run. The.Built of native sandstone in 1950, it houses amuseum, gift shop and shows a movie about thebattle.

Hours may vary seasonally and forspecial events. Here's their website.The park is open yearround, but the museum and visitor center are closed fromNovember 1 to April 1. In addition to the history,Bushy Run is a haven for hikers, joggers and familypicnics. When the visitor center is open, there arevolunteer guides that offer both walking and golf carttours. There is also a gift shop where many of thepaintings used in this page are sold. Artists RobertGriffing and Don Troiani have both taken a specialinterest in the Battle of Bushy Run. There arere-enactments every year and it has a very activevolunteer group that keeps the place running.Western Pennsylvania hasmore history and more things to do than almost any areayou can name.

I was born and raised here, so I'mpartial. If you like history, you've come to theright place. There have been six wars fought here fromFort Necessity to Flight 93. Exploring, hiking, rafting,climbing, geocaching or just about any other outdooractivity - it's all here, usually with a museum orvisitors center nearby.We call our web site Offthe Beaten Path because we write about significant thingsthat few people know about. The Battle of Bushy Runcertainly qualifies. I hope you enjoyed the page andthat you'll check out some others.

As always, we welcomecomments and feedback.The GPS coordinates tothe Bushy Run Visitor's Center are. Click on the coordinatesfor an interactive Google map.Semper Fi.Outhere.Boris and Natasha.