49 the savages who were continually raiding on tho Ohio, and killing the settlers in western Pennsylvania and Virginia. General Washington appointed General McIntosh to command the expedition, which rendezvoused at Fort Pitt. McIntosh sot out from Fort Pitt with one thousand men and cut a road to the mouth of Big B^iver. where he built a fort and-named it after himself. While here the General was informed by friendly Mora vian Indians that the hostile Shawanese and Delaware warriors intended to give him battle at Sugar Creek near the site of Canal Dover. Two days later he took up his march to the Tuscarawas, which he reached in fourteen days. It was the 19th of November. 1778. when the army went into camp about half a mile below the site of Bolivar. It was a regularly laid out work, though small, and was named in honor of President Laurens of the Colonial Congress. Earth works were thrown up to the height of four and one half feet, and it was surrounded by a ditch or moat two and one half feet dee]) and eight feet wide. The fort covered about half an acre, and the parapets were crowned with pickets made of the trunks of large trees
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