The forgotten battle that saved Western Pennsylvania

The forgotten battle that saved Western Pennsylvania

JEANNETTE, Pa. — Nearly 263 years ago this August, Col. Henry Bouquet marched a relief column into a stand of oak and hickory forest west of Fort Ligonier and fought one of the most consequential battles of the colonial frontier. Most Americans have never heard of the battle, nor will they visit its grounds. But it decided whether the king’s colonies west of the Allegheny Mountains would survive the summer of 1763. Today, that ground — 213 woode…