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* It was computed that fifteen hundred per- 



* sons were killed or made prisoners by these 



* savages during this fatal day. Many of the 



* latter were carried off bv them and never re- 

 ' turned. A few, through favorable accidents, 



* found their way back to their native country, 



* after having experienced a long and severe 

 ' captivity. 



' The brave colonel Monroe had hastened a- 



* way, soon after the confusion began, to the 



* French camp to endeavor to procure the guard 



* agreed on by the stipulation ; but his application 

 *• proving ineffectual, he remained there till gen- 



* eral Webb sent a party of troops to demand 



* and protect him back to fort Edward."* 



The day after this awful tragedy had been 

 acted, major Putnam was dispatched with his 

 rangers to watch the motions of the enemy. 

 He came to the shore of lake George when the 

 rear of the enemy was scarcely beyond the 

 reach of musquet shot. The prospect Was aw- 

 ful and horrid in the highest degree^ The fort 

 was demolished, the barracks, outhouses and 

 buildings, were one heap of ruins ; the cannon, 

 stores, boats and vessels, were carried away. 

 The fires were still burning, the smoke and 

 stench offi^nsive and suffocating. Innumerable 

 fragments of human sculls and bones, and car- 

 Cases half consumed, were still frying and broil- 

 ins: hi the decavina: fires. Dead bodies man- 

 gled with scalping knives and tomahawks, ia 

 Jill the wantonness of Indian fierceness and bar- 

 barity, were every where to be seen. More 



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