John Forbes

John Forbes led a new advance upon Fort Duquesne. Forbes resolved not to use Braddock’s road but to cut a new one west from Raystown, Pennsylvania. Washington disapproved of the route but played an important part in the movement. Late in the autumn the French…

…settled in 1758 when General John Forbes and his British and colonial army expelled the French from Fort Duquesne (built 1754). Forbes named the site for the British statesman William Pitt the Elder. The British built Fort Pitt (1761) to ensure their dominance at the source of the Ohio. Settlers…

John Forbes cut a road across Pennsylvania and seized Fort Duquesne, evacuated by the French; Amherst took the fortress of Louisbourg for the second and last time; and other troops took possession of outposts on the Ohio River. In the summer of 1759 came the…