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enemy, which encamped on the eaftern part of the lake. 
Whether diffident of their own ftrength, or directed to 
withdraw from their flrong holds, by order of M. Mont¬ 
calm, which, in cafe of a liege, he was in no condition to 
relieve; and his prefent circumftances required all his col¬ 
lective ftrength in the field ; the fcouts, on the ift of Au- 
guft, brought an account, that the enemy had abandoned 
Crown Point alfo. The weather was fo bad that made it 
impra&icable to move with his whole army until the 4th. 
Biit he difpatched 200 rangers through the woods, to feize 
the poffieffion of fo eafy a conqueft. O11 the 4th, weather 
permitting, and the boats being brought over the carrying- 
place, the troops began to embark at two in the morning, 
and were all got over the lake, landed, and polled, before 
night; fome being- encamped, and others laid on their 
arms. Next day the general, confidering- the importance 
of this fituation, which entirely fecured all his majelly’s 
dominions behind it, from the inroads of the enemy, and 
from the fcalping parties that- had infefted the whole 
country, and that it would give peace and quiet to all the 
fettlers from thence to New York to have a refpeflable 
fort built on that fpot; he immediately- ordered the ground 
to be traced out, and the fort to be begun with all poffi- 
ble expedition. Here general Amlierft received intelli¬ 
gence, that the flying enemy had retired to the Ifle Aiix 
Noix, /landing'at the other end of lake Champlain, at 
about five leagues from St.John’s: that their numbers 
fvere augmented, by other parties called in, to 3500 ef¬ 
fective men, regulars, marines, and Canadians, encamped 
under the command of M. cle Burlemaque, and provided 
with a numerous and well-regulated artillery; and that 
the enemy had got a fqUadron of four large veflels on the 
lake, mounted with cannon, and manned with piquets 
from different regiments, under the command of experi¬ 
enced naval officers. A ftrength, which, if to be encoun¬ 
tered and defeated by general Amherft, was fufficient to 
retard hfs advancing to the affiftance of tine befiegers of 
Quebec, before the approach of the winter would oblige 
him to fall back, to prevent his army’s fuftering by the 
inclemency of the weather. But fuch was his zeal for the 
fervice of his country, that, regai'dlefs of any thing but 
to fulfil his inftruftions, he ordered a /loop to carry fixteen 
guns, and a radeair (of eighty-four feet long and twenty 
broad) to carry fix 24-pounders, to be built with the ut- 
moft expedition; and with thefe, and with a brigantine 
and a /loop, which arrived on the-1 ith of Oftober, tire 
.general embarked to attack Burlemaque on the Ifland Au'x 
Noix; but a ftornr foon after compelled hin to give up all 
further'thoughts of forcing 1 a way to the river St. Lau¬ 
rence in queft of the Briti/h fleet, and to feek flicker 
once more in the bay, from whence he had failed juft'be¬ 
fore: where he debarked, and marched with his army 
bac-k to Crown Point, without being able to get any cer¬ 
tain intelligence of the fituation and operations of the fleet 
and army before Quebec. He arrived at Crown Point on 
the 21 ft of Oftober, where he completed his intended for- 
trefs, and three fmall out-forts ; opened communications 
between Ticonderoga and the governments of New Hamp- 
ffiire and Maffachu left’s ; and difpofed his troops in win¬ 
ter quarters, after fuch a manner, as to prevent any inroads' 
by the enemy. 
General Amherft refumed his operations as foon as the 
feafon in'1760 would permit. But before lie could reach 
Ofwego (oh the gth of July) two French veflels had cro/fed 
the lake, and appeared off that fort. Being informed of 
this, tlie general ordered the Mondega, carrying four 
9-pounders, fourteen 6-pounders, and 100 feanien; and' 
the Mohawk, carrying fixteen 6-pounders and ninety lea- 
men; to fail in queft of them, and if pollibleto cut them 
oft from their harbour. General Amherft, during his 
ft-ay at this fort, employed his time in every Ufeful expe¬ 
dient to improve the troops and to forward his intended 
operations againft the enemy. For it was the 9th of Au- 
guft before Schuyler’s regiment arrived. The whole ar¬ 
my was ordered to embark at day-break next morning; 
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but, the batteaux being not quite completed, the general 
embarked with the regulars, and- left general Gage to bring 
up the provincials and-the rear; who failed, next morning, 
and joined general Amherft on the 14th. This navigation 
was' attended with feveral difficulties, from its own na¬ 
ture and the want of fufficient pilots; which greatly re¬ 
tarded the armed veflels. On the 16th the general had 
intelligence of the enemy’s two veflels, which had efca- 
ped the vigilance of thofe fent in queft of them on tlie 
14th of July. An Ofwegatchie Indian informed him that 
one of the French veflels was a-ground at tire fort, and fo 
much damaged that the could not get off; and that the 
other layoff Galette. At this juncture the armed veflels 
could not be found, having got out of the right channel: 
wherefore the general fitted his row-galleys to attack 
the veffel. This account alfo haftened his attack of the 
enemy’s peft at 1 He Royale. As this poft was deprived of 
any affiftance-from their drips, he refolved to proceed, 
without halting, down the river Swegatchie for that pur- 
pofe ; and reached the Point de Baril with the advanced 
guard very late in the day of the 16th. They could fee 
the French velfel a-ground ; but, as it was a calm, there 
was no reaching of her that night: but fire was taken the 
next day ; on which day alfo, tlie general took pofleffion 
of Swegatchie, and encamped there, while he detached 
two engineers, with parties, to view the coafts and fituation 
of the iflands near l’Tfle Royale ; whofe report, next day, 
being favourable, general Amherft, though the weather 
was exceflive bad, was determined to feize the firll moment 
to inveft the place. He fet off with a proper force, and 
three row-galleys, talcing alfo fome light field-pieces; 
rowed clown the north fliore, paffed the fort, and took 
poffeffio'n of the iflands and coafts below it. At eleven at 
night the. place was completely inverted. Ifle Gallot and 
1 ’Abbe Piquets Ifland were found abandoned ; the enemy 
having left them in a great hurry ; for the fcalps they had 
taken on the Mohawk river, with tools and utenfilsof va¬ 
rious kinds, two fwivels,. fome barrels of pitch, and a 
quantity of iron, were left behind. The Indians whom 
the general had with him, on finding the fcalps, burnt the 
chapel, and all the houfes. On the 19th, at day-break, 
the general viewed the iflands, with colonel Willianifon 
and lieutenant-colonel Eyre, and fixed the batteries, one 
on each of the two iflands neareft tlie fort; and one on a 
point of laiid on the fouth fliore. Detachments were im¬ 
mediately made to open ground. The enemy kept a front 
fire at the veflels : but the general ordered his veflels to 
avoid firing;, rather than keep it up, and fpe'nt the 19th in 
preparing fafeines, and every neceflary for carrying on the 
liege. Which preparations were fo well conduced, that 
all the batteries began to play on the 23d, and did fo much 
execution, thett the enemy drew in their guns, and tried 
to put them under cover. General Amherft alfo made a 
difpofi-tion for donning the fort, after fome time firing:, 
but lie was obliged, for' the prefent, to put it off ; his 
vefl’els not complying' with his orders fo well as he could 
have v/i died. But, the enemy not able.to keep to their 
guns, and many of their guns being difinounted and dTa¬ 
bled, the garrifon beat a parley in the afternoon, which 
ended in a capitulation ; by which his majefty was put into . 
pofleflion of a fort and poll, that entirely commanded lake 
Ontario, and effectually covered tlie Mohawk river, and 
all that' part of his majefty’s dominions, from the inroads 
and barbarities of the favages.. 
Having repaired the fort, mended the batteaux, fined 
out the veflels, and made fuch other preparations.as were 
judged effeiitia'lly neceflary for the paflage of the army 
down the river, the general proceeded for Montreal, the 
place of his deftination, on the'- 3ift,- and arrived at the 
Ifie "au, Chat, a pailitgeof about twenty-four .miles, where 
he encamped that night; and next day arrived at John- : 
foil’s Point, fourteen miles lower, being interrupted and 
delayed by the parties of the epemy 'that lined, and fired 
upon the batteaux from, tlie fliore, as they paffed the Long 
Saut; and by tlie rapids and broken waves, which filled 
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