He now unbent and offered them a generous treaty, which was to be drawn up and arranged later by Sir William Johnson.

Bouquet then retraced his steps to Fort Pitt, and arrived there on November 28 with his long train of released captives.

He had won a victory over the Indians greater than his triumph at Edge Hill, and all the greater in that it was achieved without striking a blow.
There was still, however, important work to be done before any guarantee of permanent peace in the hinterland was possible.

On the eastern bank of the Mississippi, within the country ceded to England by the Treaty of Paris, was an important settlement over which the French flag still flew, and to which no British troops or traders had penetrated.

It was a hotbed of conspiracy.