APPENDIX F. 



CAMPAIGN OF 1764. 



1. Bouquet's Expedition. 



Letter — General Gage to Lord Halifax, December 13, 1764. (Chap. 

 XXVIL) 



The Perfidy of the Shawanese and Delawares, and their having 

 broken the ties, which even the Savage Nations hold sacred amongst each 

 other, required vigorous measures to reduce them. We had experienced 

 their treachery so often, that I determined to make no peace with them, 

 but in the Heart of their Country, and upon such terms as should make 

 it as secure as it was possible. This conduct has produced all the good 

 effects which could be wished or expected from it. Those Indians have 

 been humbled and reduced to accept of Peace upon the terms prescribed 

 to them, in such a manner as will give reputation to His Majesty's Arms 

 amongst the several Nations. The Eegular and Provincial Troops under 

 Colonel Bouquet, having been joined by a good body of Volunteers 

 from Virginia, and others from Maryland and Pennsylvania, marched 

 from Fort Pitt the Beginning of October, and got to Tuscaroras about 

 the fifteenth. The March of tlie Troops into their Country threw the 

 Savages into the greatest Consternation, as they had hoped tlieir Woods 

 would protect them, and had boasted of the Security of their Situation 

 from our Attacks. The Indians hovered round the Troops during then- 

 March, but despairing of success in an Action, had recourse to Negotia- 

 tions. They were told that they might have Peace, but every Prisoner 

 in their possession must first be delivered up. They brought in near 

 twenty, and promised to deliver the Rest; but as their promises were 

 not regarded, they engaged to deUver the whole on the 1st of November, 

 at the Forks of the Muskingham, about one hundred and fifty miles from 

 Fort Pitt, the Centre of the Delaware Towns, and near to the most con- 

 siderable settlement of the Shawanese. Colonel Bouquet kept them in 

 sight, and moved his Camp to that Place. He soon obliged the Dela- 

 wares and some broken tribes of Mohikons, Wiandots, and Mingoes, to 



