Bushy Run Battle Reenactment

[Mad_Jack]

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.

Hope to see you there.

[Adam Helmer]

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

[Gil Martin]

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

[Adam Helmer]

Deerman,

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

Adam