Assault of the 77th at Bushy Run-by Pamela Patrick White
Oil on Canvas
30 x 40
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Officially numbered the 77th Regiment of Foot, the new regiment was also referred to as the 1st Highland Battalion. It spent the next five years in arduous wilderness campaigning in the colonies of North America. In 1757, it was in the Carolinas with Amherst to help protect the settlers from Indian raids. Later the 77th was brought north to Philadelphia to participate in the Forbes campaign of 1758. It helped build a military road, complete with supporting forts, across the entire colony of Pennsylvania. The soldiers of the 77th took part in a surprise attack on Fort Duquesne, a key French post at the site of modern Pittsburgh. They also participated in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain in 1759. Montgomery's Highlanders battled Cherokee Indians in the Carolinas in 1760, fought in the Caribbean and took Havana from the Spanish in 1762. The regiment's last campaign was with Colonel Henry Bouquet, when it helped defeat the Ottawa Chief Pontiac's huge Indian forces in western Pennsylvania at Bushy Run.
Officially numbered the 77th Regiment of Foot, the new regiment was also referred to as the 1st Highland Battalion. It spent the next five years in arduous wilderness campaigning in the colonies of North America. In 1757, it was in the Carolinas with Amherst to help protect the settlers from Indian raids. Later the 77th was brought north to Philadelphia to participate in the Forbes campaign of 1758. It helped build a military road, complete with supporting forts, across the entire colony of Pennsylvania. The soldiers of the 77th took part in a surprise attack on Fort Duquesne, a key French post at the site of modern Pittsburgh. They also participated in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain in 1759. Montgomery's Highlanders battled Cherokee Indians in the Carolinas in 1760, fought in the Caribbean and took Havana from the Spanish in 1762. The regiment's last campaign was with Colonel Henry Bouquet, when it helped defeat the Ottawa Chief Pontiac's huge Indian forces in western Pennsylvania at Bushy Run.