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hundred Indians, placed in ambush, safe from 

 his arms, and almost concealed from his sight. 

 Thus despising his American friends and ene- 

 mies, the British general fell a sacrifice to the 

 superior knowledge and arts of the American 

 Indians : And it was owing to the bravery and 

 prudence of colonel Washington, that a retreat 

 was effecte d ; and the remaining part of the ar- 

 my rescued from destruction. In this battle 

 scarcely any of the enemy were slain, but the 

 loss of the English amounted to seven hundred 

 men. The defeat was total,, and the carnage 

 uncommonlv great, of eighty five officers, sixty 

 four were slain or dangerously wounded. All 

 the artillery, ammunition, and baggage of the 

 arm}'- w^ere left to the enemy ; ajid among the 

 rest, the general's cabinet, containing all hisror- 

 ders, letters, and instructions. The French 

 court published the whole of these papers ; and 

 in their printed ntemorials and manifestoes, a-. 

 vowed to ail Jiurope that they had now com-. 

 pleat information of the designs of Great Bri- 

 tain and hef colonies.. 



The army that was sent to Nova Scotia, was. 

 put under the immediate command of colonel 

 iMonckton, a British officer. Colonel Law*- 

 rence, the lieutenant governor and commander 

 in that province, had found it impossible to 

 raise the recruits which he wanted, in Nova 

 Scotia. Kis attention was turned to Nevv' Eng- 

 land, as the only place in which he could ex-, 

 pect success. With that view, colonel Monck- 

 ton had made a voyage to Boston, in the latter 

 part of winter, and consulted Shirley upon the 

 business. Such was the reluctance of the New 



