Note 14 — Chapter IV
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Michaux is in error in saying that the French built Fort Ligonier. He was probably misled by the name. It was named for Sir John Ligonier, commander-in-chief of the land-forces of Great Britain (1751), and erected on Loyalhanna Creek, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, during the advance of Forbes’s army (1758). Fort Ligonier was thrice attacked, once after Grant’s defeat (October 12, 1758), and in the following June by a party of French and Indians. During Pontiac’s War, it endured a long siege, being relieved in August, 1763. This outpost served to protect the frontier during the Revolution, after which it was no longer garrisoned. General St. Clair made his later home at this place, dying here in 1818.—Ed.