Henry Bouquet
Henri Louis Bouquet (* 1719 in Rolle, Switzerland, † September 2, 1765 in Pensacola, Florida), known to the British as Henry Bouquet was a Swiss mercenaries in the service of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Sardinia - Piedmont and the British Crown. He was known primarily for its use in colonial North America.
Career
Bouquet grew up in the Swiss Canton of Vaud on role as the son of an innkeeper and merchant. In the rural area itself was badly find a job, then bouquet decided to make military service. This he did in the episode in the Netherlands, in Sardinia, and again in the Netherlands.
War service in North America
1756 came Bouquet in North America as a lieutenant colonel the office of inspector of the British forts on. Bouquet was among other things the structure of the military unit Royal Americans and the construction of Fort Pitt - the present city of Pittsburgh - involved.
Bouquet soon gained good contact with the Cherokee Indians, who were allied with the British. From them he took over parts of their way to fight in the woods and integrated them into the British way of fighting. He divided his companies of solid bodies into individual fighters.
1762, various Native American tribes began to rise up against the expanding British under the leadership of Pontiac. They conquered several Cont. From June 22 1763 the besieged Fort Pitt Pontiac warrior also. Henri Bouquet hastened with his Royal Americans the fort to help. After a forced march of the completely exhausted British were attacked Run of Pontiac warriors near the outpost Bushy on August 5. The British came at the beginning of the battle arg in hardships, the Indians then but could thanks to a bogus lure retreat and defeat in the trap. On August 20, met Bouquet and his men into Fort Pitt.
After the victory, the British committed a massacre at the defeated them and took the scalps. Bouquet thought even to distribute infected blankets to the Indians with smallpox, ultimately rejected this idea out of fear of infecting his own men. For his lead performance in combat bouquet was praised to the skies. Many important chiefs had lost their lives during the battle; the uprising of the Indians was broken and the back country free for the settlement by the whites. Bouquet himself bumped up over the Ohio River westward and negotiated there with the insurgent Indians. With cunning tricks, threats, promises, and stretching out he could ultimately carry a brilliant victory here. The result of the negotiations went down in history as the Peace of Muskingum.
End of life
The military victory followed by diplomatic wore a bouquet of great respect. He was made an honorary citizen of dozens of cities on the Atlantic coast. The British could Bouquets campaign but inadequately financially viable and it is likely that Bouquet had to pay a large part of the costs yourself. Not least because he wanted to retire from the military service. An offer to Brigadier General and Governor of Florida caused him to rethink. Just a week after his arrival in Florida, he died of yellow fever.