...Fort Ligonier to serve as supply depots. 

Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, who had been a member of Braddock’s campaign, accompanies the expedition, serving at the fore of one of the Virginia provincial regiments.

Forbes, very ill, does not keep up with the advance of his army of between five thousand and seven thousand men, but entrusts it to his second in command, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Bouquet, a Swiss officer commanding a battalion of the Royal American Regiment.

Bouquet had entered the British Army in 1754 as a lieutenant colonel in the 60th Regiment of Foot (The Royal American Regiment), a unit made up largely of members of Pennsylvania's German immigrant community.

After leading the Royal Americans to Charleston, South Carolina to bolster that city's defenses, the regiment had been recalled to Philadelphia to take part in Forbes' expedition.

Bouquet sanctions a reconnaissance of Fort Duquesne by Major James Grant of Ballindalloch.