Excerpt from Washington in the Forbes Expedition of 1758 Cumberland, says he regrets the change of route. He meant from the one by Raes Town and Loyal Hannon. Colonel Bouquet, with a part of his Royal Americans, a part of the Pennsylvania and Maryland troops, and six compa nies of the Virginians, reached Raes Town on the 24th of June from F ort Littleton (see Bouquet's Orderly Book). He was then Upon the ground to consider the question of roads. Smallpox appeared among the troops at Fort Loudoun in the early part of June (see Bouquet's letter to Forbes, 14 June. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.