1763, June.] COLONEL BOUQUET. 31 



years, been engaged in the rough and lonely 

 service of the frontiers and forests ; and when the 

 Indian war broke out, it was chiefly they, who, like 

 military hermits, held the detached outposts of the 

 West. Bouquet, however, who was at this time 

 colonel of the first battalion, had his headquarters 

 at Philadelphia, where he was held in great esteem. 

 His person w^as fine, and his bearing composed and 

 dignified ; perhaps somewhat austere, for he is said 

 to have been more respected than loved by his 

 officers. Nevertheless, their letters to him are 

 very far from indicating any want of cordial 

 relations. He was fond of the society of men of 

 science, and wrote English better than most British 

 officers of the time. Here and there, however, a 

 passage in his letters suggests the inference, that 

 the character of the gallant mercenary was toned 

 to his profession, and to the unideal epoch in which 

 he lived. Yet he was not the less an excellent 

 soldier ; indefatigable, faithful, full of resource, and 

 without those arrogant prejudices which had im- 

 paired the efficiency of many good British officers, 

 in the recent war, and of which Sir Jeffrey 

 Amherst was a conspicuous example. He had 

 acquired a practical knowledge of Indian war- 

 fare ; and it is said that, in the course of the 

 hazardous partisan service in which he was often 

 engaged, when it was necessary to penetrate dark 



served abroad as officers or engineers, to act and rank as officers or 

 engineers in America only." — Smollett, England, III. 475. 



The Royal American Regiment is now the 60th Rifles. Its ranks, at 

 the time of the Pontiac war, were filled by provincials of EngUsh as well 

 as of German descent. 



