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Bouquet's Expedition Against the Ohio Indians in 1764 by William Smith (Hardcover)
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Bouquet's Expedition Against the Ohio Indians in 1764 by William Smith (Hardcover)
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In the fall of 1764, Col. Henry Bouquet led a British-American army
into what is today eastern Ohio with the intention of ending the
border conflict called "Pontiac's War." Brokering a truce without
violence and through negotiations, he ordered the Delawares and
Shawnees to release all of their European and Colonial American
captives. For the indigenous Ohio peoples, nothing was more
wrenching and sorrowful than returning children from mixed
parentage and adopted members of their families, many of whom had
no memory of their former status or were unwilling to relinquish
Native American culture. Provost William Smith of the College of
Philadelphia wrote a history of these events in 1765 titled
Bouquet's Expedition Against the Ohio Indians in 1764. Subsequent
editions and printings appeared in London, Amsterdam, Dublin, and
Paris until 1778, making this book the most widely circulated and
read work on warfare and diplomacy in the Ohio country to emerge
following the Seven Years' War. The literary reputation and impact
of Bouquet's Expedition surpassed all similar contemporary works
published on either side of the Atlantic and is probably the most
prominent description of an Indian captivity narrative available
from the eighteenth century. The dramatic return of the captives
described by Smith inspired Conrad Richter's 1953 novel The Light
in the Forest and the Walt Disney movie of the same name in 1958.
This fully annotated edition of Smith's remarkable book, drawn from
all the 1765-1778 versions, includes a new introduction with essays
on Smith and his contributors and sources, such as Bouquet,
Benjamin Franklin, and Edmund Burke, in addition to a new history
of the publication. Numerous eighteenth-century images, sketches,
drawings, engravings, and paintings are reproduced, and for the
first time Benjamin West's two original drawings of Ohio leaders
negotiating with Bouquet and the return of the captives are
featured. Also included are impressive maps drawn for the book by
Thomas Hutchins, Bouquet's engineer, of the Ohio country and the
battle of Bushy Run in 1763. Bouquet's Expedition Against the Ohio
Indians in 1764 is a lasting contribution to our understanding of
early Ohio and of warfare and diplomacy in the eighteenth century.
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