This triumph meant much to them.

Their borders would now be safe, but for occasional scalping parties.

Amherst was delighted, and took to himself much of the credit of Bouquet's victory.
He congratulated the noble Swiss officer on his victory over 'a band of savages that would have been very formidable against any troops but such as you had with you.' But it was not the troops that won the battle; it was Bouquet.
In the hands of a Braddock, a Loudoun, an Abercromby, these war-worn veterans would have met a fate such as befell Braddock's troops.

But Bouquet animated every man with his own spirit; he knew how to fight Indians; and at the critical moment--'the fatal five minutes between victory and defeat'-- he proved himself the equal of any soldier who ever battled against the red men in North America..