• the British General John Reid, second in command in Henry Bouquet's expedition against the western and Ohio Indians, was also a proficient flute-player and a musical composer?

Facts on topics related to Henry Bouquet

French and Indian War

• Cowans Gap State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of a key road in the French and Indian War, a pioneer farm, a charcoal operation, and a CCC Camp?
• during the French and Indian War Henry Timberlake was an emissary to the Overhill Cherokee whose journals became a primary source for later studies of eighteenth-century Cherokee?
• several forts at Fort Morris Historic Site in Georgia protected the Medway River and its settlements during the French and Indian and American Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812?

Pittsburgh

• Pittsburgh steel magnate John Walker's personal library, including all of the original furnishings, was donated to Washington & Jefferson College and installed in the Thompson Library exactly as he had left it?
• Edward Manning Bigelow (pictured) is known as the "father of Pittsburgh's parks"?
• Emil John Mihalik, the first Byzantine Eparch of Parma, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
• Hays Hall, the first dormitory at Washington & Jefferson College, was designed by noted Pittsburgh architect Frederick J. Osterling?
• Josh Gibson Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is named for Negro League star Josh Gibson, who has been called the "black Babe Ruth?"
• Fr. Martin Hehir, the fourth president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, was affectionately known to students as "Daddy Hehir"?
• Miss Pittsburgh was the first plane to deliver airmail between Pittsburgh and Cleveland?
• evidence from Gerald Gardner, a man who served as president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Organization for Women, led to a ban on sex-segregated help wanted ads, a ruling upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1973 ruling?
• in 1920, KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first radio station to broadcast Major League Baseball on the radio?
• the Pittsburgh Wayfinder System is composed of more than 1,500 traffic signs that point the way to popular destinations in the City of Pittsburgh?