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Colonel Henry Bouquet
(1719 - 1766)
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British Colonel |
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Suspected of being involved in a plot to wipe out native people through disease |
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Worked to establish peace between the British and the natives |
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Defeated a group of Delaware near Bushy Run, Pennsylvania |
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"I will try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets that may fall in their hands, taking care however not to disease myself."
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Colonel Henry Bouquet in a letter to General Jeffrey Amherst, July 13, 1763
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Biography
Bouquet, the son of a British army officer, was born in Switzerland in 1719. In 1756, he became a colonel in the British military. Shortly thereafter, he was sent to North American possessions to keep peace.
In 1763, Bouquet led a campaign to subdue the Pontiac Rebellion. He defeated the Delaware of eastern Ohio in a counterattack near Bushy Run, Pennsylvania. Following their defeat, the natives requested peace; the opposing sides signed a treaty. One of the conditions of the treaty was that the natives return all prisoners.
After all the prisoners were returned, Bouquet retreated to Fort Pitt. Henry Bouquet died in 1766 while still serving the British military.
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