The Proclamation of 1763, declared by the British after the French and Indian War, prohibited further American settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and was intended to conciliate Native Americans by stopping encroachment on their lands. In 1764 British troops led by Colonel Henry Bouquet (1719–1765), moved from Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh) down the Ohio and Muskingum rivers to occupy forts near Native American towns. Mapmaker Thomas Hutchins (1730–1789), who accompanied the expedition, produced this map of the area where the forts were located.