Excerpt from William Maclay, United States Senator From Pennsylvania, 1789-1791 Fort Duquesne, and the place, at the suggestion of Forbes, was called Pittsburg. After the treaty of peace in 1763, the tide of settlement moved west ward, and Pontiac organized the Indian tribes from Lake Ontario to Georgia in a great conspiracy to repel the English. Fort Pitt was sev ered from communication with the East, and General Amherst sent Lieutenant Colonel Henry Bouquet to the relief of this important post. William Maclay served in this expedition as lieutenant with the third Pennsylvania Battalion. On July 21, 1763, the army started from Carlisle and proceeded by way of Fort Bedford and Fort Ligonier. On August 5, at Bushy Run, near Braddock's field, the Indians made a savage attack, and the army engaged in battle for nearly two days. The strategy of Colonel Bouquet saved his troops, and he led them on to Fort Pitt, where be erected a stone redoubt, which stands to this day, bearing the inscription, Colonel Bouquet, A. D. The next year Colonel Bouquet led an expedition into Ohio, in which William Maclay served as lieutenant in the regiment commanded by the Hon. John Penn. In this campaign, Maclay was stationed with a portion of the Pennsylvania regiment on the line of the stockade forts on the route to Fort Pitt, as lieutenant commanding a company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.