286 FATE OF THE FOREST GARRISONS. [1763, June. 



After Presqu' Isle was taken, the neighboring 

 posts of Le Boeuf and Venango shared its fate ; 

 while farther southward, at the forks of the Ohio, 

 a host of Delaware and Shawanoe warriors were 

 gathering around Fort Pitt, and blood and havoc 

 reigned along the whole frontier. 



of Colonel Bouquet, commanding the battalion of the Royal American 

 Regiment to which Christie belonged. Christie's surrender had been 

 thought censurable both by General Amherst and by Bouquet. Accord- 

 ing to Christie's statements, it was unavoidable ; but according to those 

 of Smyth, and also of the two soldiers. Gray and Smart, the situation, 

 though extremely critical, seems not to have been desperate. Smyth's 

 testimony bears date 30 March, 1765, nearly two years after the event. 

 Some allowance is therefore to be made for lapses of memory. He places 

 the beginning of the attack on the twenty-first of June, instead of the 

 fifteenth, — an evident mistake. The Diary of the Siege of Detroit says 

 that Christie did not make his escape, but was brought in and surrendered 

 by six Huron chiefs on the ninth of July. In a letter of Bouquet dated 

 June 18th, 1760, is enclosed a small plan of Presqu' Isle. 



