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parties were constantly employed, hovering m 

 the neighborhood of that place, and watching 

 all the measures and motions of the enem^. 

 One of these parties returned to the English 

 camp on August the first, and brought intelli- 

 gence that the French had also abandoned 

 Crown Point, and were gone down the lake, 

 without destroying the works. Amherst de- 

 tached a body of rangers to take possession of 

 the place ; and on the fourth of August em- 

 barked with his army, landed the same day, and 

 placed his troop* vvithin the enemy^s works. 

 Thus was effected the reduction of Ticondero- 

 ga and Crown Point. From the time of their 

 first erection they had given security to the in- 

 roads of the enemy, afforded an asylum to the 

 scalping parties that had infested the frontiers of 

 the whole country, and cost the British colonics 

 immense sums of money and many thousands 

 of her citizens. They now fell by the attack 

 that Wolfe was making upon Quebec, and by 

 the caution and resolution that Amherst dis- 

 played in the approach and manceuvres of his 

 army. No sooner was their conquest com- 

 pleated than Amherst superintended the works, 

 strengthened and enlarg-cd the old ones, and be- 

 gan a new fort ; meaning to make effectuai 

 provision that the enemy should never again 

 obtain possession of a post, which had been so 

 dangerous and distressing to the British provin-- 

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The French troops, after the evacuation of 

 Crovv^n Point, retired to the Isle Aux Noix. 

 'i'his island is at the north end of lake Cham- 

 plain, about five leagues to tke south of St» 



