Note 317 — Chapter XX · 1763. THE BATTLE OF BUSHY RUN.
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Extract from a Letter of Bouquet to Amherst, Bedford, July 26th, 1763:
“The troops & Convoy arrived here yesterday.... Three men have been massacred near Shippensburg since we left, but we have not perceived yet any of the Villains.... Having observed in our march that the Highlanders lose themselves in the woods as soon as they go out of the road, and cannot on that account be employed as Flankers, I have commissioned a person here to procure me about thirty woodsmen to march with us.... This is very irregular, but the circumstances render it so absolutely necessary that I hope you will approve it.”