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On September 14, 1758, Major James Grant of Ballindalloch, acting commander of the 77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders), led 750 men (regulars and American provincials) to Fort Duquesne on a nocturnal reconnaissance mission ahead of Forbes's main column. For some reason, Grant ordered his pipers to play. When they got near the Fort, Grant ordered an ambush to be set up consisting of 100 regulars and 150 Virginians, while a further 100 British troops would attack the surrounding troops of the fort itself. Warned by the sound of the bagpipes, Captain François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery, the commander, dispatched some 500 men, mostly Indians, who repeatedly encircled and attacked the British troops. Surrounded, the Scots fought desperately but inflicted little real damage on the Indians, who were firing from behind trees. 100 of the Pennsylvanians deserted without a shot being fired. The Virginians fought on with 100 men until forced to retreat. Grant was taken prisoner along with eighteen of his men. Out of 342 British casualties, 232 were from the 77th Regiment ^[2]. is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1758 (MDCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... James Grant (1720-1806) was a major general in the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. ... The 77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomeries Highlanders) was a Highland Scots Regiment raised under Major Archibald Montgomerie, son of the Earl of Eglington. ... This article is about the country. ...

Though the French had won a stunning victory, nearly annihilating part of the 77th Highland Regiment, de Lignery understood that his meagre army, built atop a rapidly-crumbling network of alliances with native tribes, could not hold Fort du Quesne against the bulk of the British invasion force totalling 6,000 men under John Forbes. The French continued to occupy Duquesne until November 26, when its retreating garrison burnt it and left under the cover of darkness. As the British marched up to the smoldering remains, they were confronted with an appalling sight. The Indians had cut off the heads of many of the dead Highlanders and impaled them on the sharp stakes on top of the Fort walls, with their kilts displayed below. British-American armies rebuilt Fort Duquesne, naming it Fort Pitt after the contemporary Prime Minister William Pitt who had told them to attack A Plan of the New Fort at Pitts-Burgh, drawn by cartographer John Rocque and published in 1765. ... William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as Secretary of State during the Seven Years War (aka French and Indian War) and who was later Prime Minister of Great Britain. ...

References

1. ^ Stewart, Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland, Volume 2, Page 17
2. ^ Stewart, Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland, Volume 1, Page 313

Further reading

• Stewart, David, Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland(John Donald Publishers Ltd., Edinburgh, 1977 - originally published in 1822)

External links

• The French Army 1600-1900