Bushy Run Battle Reenactment
 

Bushy Run Battle reenactment is this weekend (Aug 5,6,7, 2005) at the Bushy Run Battlefield State Park near Harrison City, PA. Info can be had at : http://www.bushyrunbattlefield.com/Tours.html
I'll be there with the Rangers of the Ohio Company portraying the civilian contractors hired by Col. Bouquet.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ack/BR03-1.jpg
Hope to see you there.

Mad_Jack,

Thanks for posting the fine photo and giving us the link. I am a Civil War re-enactor with strong tendancies toward the French & Indian War. I looked at the photo and could smell the BP smoke, hear the crack of flinters and sense the "Big Woods" full of Indians where the drama unfolds.

I think Bushy Run was the place where Colonel Bouquet placed a company of his soldiers among the battlefield casualties before dawn so when the Indians attacked at sunrise, the live troops had the Indians in a crossfire after the Indians rushed past the "dead."

Thanks for the trek down memory lane back into history.

Adam

Outstanding picture!
 

I just read about Bushy Run and Col. Bouquet thought he would be defeated at this battle. He used a ploy that his men were about to panic and maneuvered a company in carrying out a bayonet charge that resolved the battle. He suffered substantial losses, but held the field. All the best...
Gil

Deerman,

Look at the Bushy Run Battle photo and see the red sashes on the Longhunters.

Adam