Forbes Road

1758

Depot of supplies assembling place of an army of nearly eight thousand men and the starting point of General John Forbes' Expedition for the possession of Fort Duquesne. The road leads Westward to the Forks.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Forbes Road

(Fort Juniata)

At the Juniata Crossings, half a mile north of here, General Forbes erected a small stockade in 1758 to protect the communications of his army moving west to attack Fort Duquesne.

Marker is on Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30) 0.3 miles ...

Forbes Road

1758

Fort Duquesne

End of Forbes Road

Occupied by General Forbes

November 25, 1758 and by him named

Pittsburgh.

His victory determined the destiny of the

Great West and established Anglo-Saxon

supremacy in the United States.

"His name for ages to come will be dear to Americans

and appear with ...

Forbes Road

Edmund's Swamp

Named for Edmund Cartlidge, Indian trader. A camp located here, on the Raystown Path, provided good grass for the horses of General Forbes' army in 1758. The site of the redoubt is marked two and a half miles north ...

Forbes Road

1758

The Bouquet Encampment

was located three miles

East of this place

which marks the farthest

Northern point

of the

Forbes Road

which leads Westward to

Fort Duquesne

97 miles from Bedford

Marker is at the intersection of Saltsburg Road (Pennsylvania Route 380) and Frankstown Road, on the right when traveling ...

Forbes Road Bouquet's Breastworks

The last base of General Forbes' army. After crossing nearly “two hundred miles of wild and unknown country,” the army entered Fort Duquesne on November 25, 1758.

Marker is on Old Frankstown Road (Pennsylvania Route 2066) 0.3 miles east of Center ...