Colonel Bouquet led 460 men out of Carlisle to raise the siege of Fort Pitt. Students trace his route from Carlisle to Fort Pitt and will re-live what happened near Bushy Run on August 4th and 5th that changed the course of Pontiac's Rebellion. They will analyze Thomas Hutchins' 1765 map of the Bushy Run battle scene and letters from Bouquet to Amherst, and a modern topographic map.

Objectives

#1 Simulate the events that led up to Pontiac's Rebellion. #2 Observe and analyze a design map of Fort Pitt. #3 Follow Bouquet's route from Carlisle to Fort Pitt recording experiences in a journal. #4 Analyze a list of items that could have been bought or bartered at a store in Fort Pitt in 1765. (This will be an extension.) #5 Analyze two original letters written by Bouquet to Amherst. #6 Analyze Thomas Hutchins' Plan of the Battle Near Bushy Run design map and relate it to information in the Bouquet letters. #7 Compare the Hutchins' map to a modern map of the Bushy Run Battlefield.

Standards Alignment

• History
  
  8.2.6. B. Identify and explain primary documents, material artifacts and historic sites important in Pennsylvania history from Beginnings to 1824
  8.3.6. B. Identify and explain primary documents, material artifacts and historic sites important in United States history from Beginnings to 1824.
  
  
• Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
  
  1.2.5. Reading Critically in Content Areas, essential/nonessential material, make inferences.