Hll^t'ORY bt VERMONT. 4S7 



i'V^hcii was compleated, general Johnson sent 

 major Harvey witii a flag to the commanding 

 officer in the fort, with a list of the prisoners^ 

 requiring him to surrender while he had it yet 

 an his power to restrain the Indians, and before 

 iany more blood should be shed. The comman- 

 ding ofiicer wished to be certain of the event of 

 the battle, and was permitted to send an officer 

 to visit the prisoners. Upon his return, the com- 

 mander agreed to surrender, articles of capitu* 

 lation were proposed, and in a fev^^ hours the 

 treaty was ratified and signed ; the whole was 

 compleated about ten o'clock in the evening of 

 the same day, on which the battle had beeli 

 fought. The garrison, consisting of six hun^ 

 dred and seven men, were to be prisoners of 

 war, and protected against insult and pillage 

 from the Indians ; the womenj at their own re- 

 quest, were to be conducted to Montreal ; the 

 sick and wounded were to be treated with hu- 

 manity, and sent to their respective corps as sooil 

 as they were recovered.* 



This was the second victory that Sir Wil- 

 liam Johnson had obtained in the course of this 

 War. In both he had entirely defeated the ene- 

 iny, and taken their commanders prisoners. He 

 himself had not the advantages of a regular mil- 

 itary education. In his battles, and in what was 

 more difiic-ult, in the art of governing and man- 

 aging the Indians, he was most of all indebted 

 to superior natural sagacity and courage. In 

 this expedition against Niagara, he had brought 

 forward eleven hundred Indians of the six na- 



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• Sniollet's Hist. England, Vol. j, p. 4ff, 



voi. I, F 3 V 



