Images of the Battle of Bushy Run
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Colonel Henry Bouquet and a force of approximately 400 British soldiers left Carlisle
in July to relieve the besieged Fort Pitt and end a series of unchecked attacks against frontier outposts.
The opening of western Pennsylvania to settlement was the result of a decisive victory over the Native Americans at
the Battle of Bushy Run, August 5th and 6th, 1763.