general john forbes led troops to remove the french from ft. duquesne.
general john forbes led troops to remove the french from ft. duquesne.
who led troops to remove the french from ft. duquesne?
general john forbes
on september 8, 1756, an expedition of 300 militiamen destroyed the shawnee and lenape village of kittanning, and in the summer of 1758, british general john forbes began a campaign to capture fort duquesne. at the head of 7,000 regular and colonial troops, forbes built fort ligonier and fort bedford, from where he cut a wagon road over the allegheny mountains, later known as forbes' road. on the night of september 13–14, 1758, an advance column under major james grant was massacred in the battle of fort duquesne. the battleground, the high hill east of the point, was named grant's hill in his memory. with this defeat, forbes decided to wait until spring. but when he heard that the french had lost fort frontenac and largely evacuated fort duquesne, he planned an immediate attack. hopelessly outnumbered, the french abandoned and razed fort duquesne. forbes occupied the burned fort on november 25, 1758 and ordered the construction of fort pitt, named after british secretary of state william pitt the elder. he also named the settlement between the rivers, "pittsborough" (see etymology of pittsburgh). the british garrison at fort pitt made substantial improvements to its fortification. the french never attacked fort pitt and the war soon ended with the treaty of paris and french defeat. they ceded their territories east of the mississippi river.
history of pittsburgh
bullet::::- administrator of tianshui (天水太守) wang qi led troops from tianshui commandery to attack tazhong.









































bullet::::- administrator of longxi (隴西太守) qian hong led troops from longxi commandery to attack tazhong.









































bullet::::- administrator of jincheng (金城太守) yang xin (楊欣) led troops from jincheng commandery to attack gansong.









































section::::order of battle.:shu forces.









































bullet::::- general-in-chief (大將軍) jiang wei led the shu defences at tazhong before he retreated to yinping and then to jiange.









































bullet::::- right general of chariots and cavalry (右車騎將軍) liao hua led reinforcements to support jiang wei at tazhong and yinping before retreating to jiange together with him.
conquest of shu by wei