1. Major General John Bradstreet, born Jean-Baptiste Bradstreet was a British Army officer during King George's War, the French and Indian War, and Pontiac's War.
12 Facts About John Bradstreet
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John Bradstreet was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, to a British Army lieutenant and an Acadian mother.
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Jean-Baptiste Bradstreet was the son of Agathe de Saint Etienne de La Tour and her first husband, Edward Bradstreet.
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John Bradstreet had married, and had two children.
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However John Bradstreet accepted a commission as lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Massachusetts Regiment and contributed to the final victory at Louisbourg, which fell after a siege in 1745.
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John Bradstreet survived but his warnings to Governor Shirley and Lord Loudon of the weak condition of Fort Oswego were largely ignored in midst of their ongoing power struggle.
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The Battle ended in disaster and John Bradstreet attempted to organize some sort of retreat, which had turned into a chaotic rout.
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John Bradstreet's proposal met with approval from British planners and he was given a force of approximately 3,000 men to carry out the operation.
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Under the new British commander in North America, Jeffery Amherst, John Bradstreet served as deputy quartermaster general in Albany, a lucrative position which he held until the end of the war.
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Shortly after the French and Indian War, John Bradstreet was appointed colonel in 1764 and was ordered to lead a force of 1,400 men to reinforce Fort Detroit in response to the outbreak of Pontiac's War.
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John Bradstreet's superiors considered Bradstreet to have mismanaged his final campaign; exceeding his orders by attempting to negotiate independent peace treaties and failing to act aggressively enough against Pontiac's forces.
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John Bradstreet is often remembered today for his work organizing and leading a corps of armed boatmen and teamsters in the British service, tasked with moving supplies and troops along the inland waterways of upstate New York and the Great Lakes.