Desperately trying to protect their homeland, the Delaware Indian Nation in the Tuscarawas Valley joined the French against the English during the French and Indian War from 1754 to 1763. After the French defeat, the Delawares, dissatisfied with the treaty terms, joined an Indian Confederacy to attack the English in early 1763 in the uprising known as Pontiac's Rebellion, led by Ottawa chief Pontiac. In response, English commander General Jeffrey Amherst ordered Colonel Henry Bouquet to lead a 1,500-man expedition to subdue the Confederacy in Ohio. The army arrived at this location on October 13, 1764, and Camp 14 stood in the valley between two small streams on the side of the hill. Continuing to the Delaware town at modern-day Coshocton, Bouquet negotiated a surrender with the Delaware, Shawnee, and Wyandot, who relinquished more than two hundred white prisoners. Born in 1719 at Rolle, Canton Vaud, Switzerland, Bouquet immigrated to America in the spring of 1756 to assist the English during the French and Indian War. Promoted to full colonel in 1758, he served as second in command under Brigadier General John Forbes and led the Forbes Expedition, which blazed a trail later known as Forbes Road from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to the Ohio River, forcing the French to abandon and destroy Fort Duquesne. He then supervised the building of Fort Pitt at the same site. During Pontiac's Rebellion he rescued the besieged garrison at Fort Pitt, decisively defeated an Indian army at the Battle of Bushy Run on August 6, 1763, successfully led the Bouquet Expedition in Ohio in 1764, and in 1765 was appointed brigadier general and sent to Florida, where he died that same year of yellow fever.