But Bouquet was not a Braddock, and he was experienced in Indian warfare.

To attempt to pass ambuscades with a long train of cumbersome wagons would be to invite disaster; so he discarded his wagons and heavier stores, and having made ready three hundred and forty pack-horses loaded with flour, he decided to set out from Ligonier on the 4th of August.

It was planned to reach Bushy Creek--'Bushy Run,' as Bouquet called it--on the following day, and there rest and refresh horses and men.

In the night a dash would be made through the dangerous defile at Turtle Creek; and, if the high broken country at this point could be passed without mishap, the rest of the way could be easily won.
At daylight the troops were up and off.

It was an oppressively hot August morning, and no breath of wind stirred the forest.