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from tins scene of carnage and havoc ; thef 

 reembarked in their batteaux, and returned to 

 their camp at lake George with such expedition j 

 tliat they regained their former situation the 

 evening after the fatal action. 



If general Abercrombie was not blameablc, 

 he was at least extremely unfortunate in this 

 fatal affair. The information and advice that he 

 received from his engineer ^vas greatly errone- 

 ous and faulty ; and it should seem that a little 

 enquiry would have been sufficient to convince 

 the general, that the works at Ticonderoga could 



After thefe orders iffucd, the whole army, except what had been left at 

 the landing place to cover and guard the batteaux and whale boats, and • 

 Provincial regiment at the Saw Mill, were put in motion, and advahced te 

 Ticonderoga, where they unfortunately found the intrenchments, riot only 

 much (Ironger than had been reprefentrd, and the breaff work at lead eight 

 or nine feet high ; but likcwifc the ground before it covered with felled 

 Irceii, the branches pointed outwards, v/hich fo fatigued and retarded the 

 advancing of the troops, that notwithftanding all their intrepidity and 

 travery, which I cannot too much commend, we fuflained fo confiderable 

 a lofs, without any profpeft of better fucceTs, that it was no longer pru- 

 dent to remain before it ; and it was therefore judj^ed neccffary, for the 

 prtfervation of thie remainder of fo many brave men, to prevent a total de- 

 feat, that we (hould make the beft retreat pofTible : Accordingly, after 

 feVcnal repeated attacks, which lafted upwards of four hour*, undet the 

 wort difadvantageCus circumflanccs, and with the lofs of 464 regulars kil- 

 led, 29 miffing, jiiy wounded ; and 87 Provincials killed, SmilFing, and 

 239 wounded, officers of both included, I retired to the camp v/e occupied 

 tlie night before, with the broken remains of feveial corps, fending away 

 »11 the wounded to the batteaux, about three miles diftancc ; and early the 

 next morning we arrived there ourfelves, embarked, and reached this place 

 the evening of the 9th. Immcdietely after my return here, I fent the 

 wounded odicers and men that couid be moved, to Fort Edward aiid 

 Albany." 



'the Freach, in the account which they pablifhed at Paris in Septem. 

 bey, gave a very different but not a probable account of this rencounter. 

 Their own fores was flatcd toconfift only of iSno French, and 450 colon v" 

 ffoopt, under the marcjUis dc Montcalm ; with 400 chofen men uiider the 

 chevaliw de Ixvy, that had joined them only on the 7th in the evening. 

 The lofj of the Englifh is rcprclenicd at 4000 killed and wounded ; that 

 the French lolt that day only T2 cfiicers and qt foldieri, killed ; and 24! 

 foJdicrs wounded. Their lofs in the fkirmim of the 6th of July, is thu« 

 Dated, 1 rapiaiu and « lieutenants killed; s captain and 3 lieutenanti 

 iriad- prifoners ; and iSj Canadians killed or taken ; And that tVi« 

 l^H^ViSh i9[tt coalAcd of e«,cc9 miH'.n, mti 6090 rx-guhif troop. 



