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The British, having secured the area around Fort Niagara, launch two military expeditions into the west.
The first expedition, led by Colonel John Bradstreet, is to travel by boat across Lake Erie and reinforce Detroit.
Bradstreet is to subdue the Native Americans around Detroit before marching south into the Ohio Country.
The second expedition, commanded by Colonel Bouquet, is to march west from Fort Pitt and form a second front in the Ohio Country.
Bradstreet sets out from Fort Schlosser in early August 1764 with about twelve hundred soldiers and a large contingent of Native allies enlisted by Sir William Johnson.
Bradstreet feels that he does not have enough troops to subdue enemy Native Americans by force, so when strong winds on Lake Erie force him to stop at Presque Isle on August 12, he decides to negotiate a treaty with a delegation of Ohio Native Americans led by Guyasuta.
Bradstreet exceeds his authority by conducting a peace treaty rather than a simple truce, and by agreeing to halt Bouquet's expedition, which has not yet left Fort Pitt.
Gage, Johnson, and Bouquet are outraged when they learn what Bradstreet had done.
Gage rejects the treaty, believing that Bradstreet had been duped into abandoning his offensive in the Ohio Country.
Gage may have been correct: the Ohio Native Americans will not return prisoners as promised in a second meeting with Bradstreet in September, and some Shawnees are trying to enlist French aid in order to continue the war.
The first expedition, led by Colonel John Bradstreet, is to travel by boat across Lake Erie and reinforce Detroit.
Bradstreet is to subdue the Native Americans around Detroit before marching south into the Ohio Country.
The second expedition, commanded by Colonel Bouquet, is to march west from Fort Pitt and form a second front in the Ohio Country.
Bradstreet sets out from Fort Schlosser in early August 1764 with about twelve hundred soldiers and a large contingent of Native allies enlisted by Sir William Johnson.
Bradstreet feels that he does not have enough troops to subdue enemy Native Americans by force, so when strong winds on Lake Erie force him to stop at Presque Isle on August 12, he decides to negotiate a treaty with a delegation of Ohio Native Americans led by Guyasuta.
Bradstreet exceeds his authority by conducting a peace treaty rather than a simple truce, and by agreeing to halt Bouquet's expedition, which has not yet left Fort Pitt.
Gage, Johnson, and Bouquet are outraged when they learn what Bradstreet had done.
Gage rejects the treaty, believing that Bradstreet had been duped into abandoning his offensive in the Ohio Country.
Gage may have been correct: the Ohio Native Americans will not return prisoners as promised in a second meeting with Bradstreet in September, and some Shawnees are trying to enlist French aid in order to continue the war.