lU NATUftAL AND CIVIL 



the latter end of Jane, and arrived at Oswego 

 on the ninth of July. 



The army being assemblecj, amounted to a- 

 bout ten thousand men ; and they were joined 

 by a considerable body of Indians under the 

 direction of Sir William Johnson. Colonel 

 Haldimand) with the light Infantry, the Grena-i 

 diers, and one battalion of Highlanders, was de- 

 tached to take post at the eastern part of the 

 lake, and assist the armed vessels in finding a 

 passage to la Galette. On the tenth of August 

 the whole army embarked on board the battcaux 

 and whale boats, and proceeded along the lake 

 towards the oi igin ai the river St. Lawrence. 

 UaderstanrJing there was nothing to fear from 

 the enemy's vessels; the general resolved to 

 proceed down th.e river to Swegatlicie, and at- 

 tack the French fort at Isle Royalc ; a post 

 which in a great measure commanded the pas- 

 sage by water, either from or to lake Ontario. 

 On the seventeenth, the row galiies fell in with 

 the French sloops commanded by M. de la Bro- 

 querie ; which were forced to surrender, after 

 a warm contest. Amherst now prepared to in- 

 vest the fortress at Isle Royaie. Batteries were 

 raised on the adjacent islands, and the fort was 

 cannonaded also by the armed sloops ; in one 

 of those islands, some scalps were found which 

 the inhabitants had taken fi*om some of th^ 

 Mohawks, whom they had slain : The Indians 

 were so infianled at the sight, that they burned \ 

 their chapel, and ail their houses. \ 



Pbeparatioj^s being made for a general 



\ assault, the commander, M. Pouchant found it 



feiost prudent to beat a parley, and surrender ca 



