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 Posted - November 12 2013 : 11:05:20 AM
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http://www.militaryheritage.com/wm_henry.htm
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The following are accounts of the two attacks made by the French on Fort William Henry in 1757. The first involves an attempt by the French to position itself to storm the fort. All without success. The second is an account of the methodical, successful, eight-day seige of Fort William Henry by the French. One cannot help but think of the movie "Last of the Mohicans" when reading this account. - Robert Henderson
"Journal of the Attack made on Fort William Henry by the French and Indians,
March the 19th 1757.
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - November 12 2013 : 12:40:18 PM
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Small parties each side of the Lake, those on the East Side came on the Side of the Hill, where Genl. Johnson fought them last Year
I am guessing that this refers to the Battle of Lake George between Johnson and Dieskau. The battle was in 1755, not "last year" as stated in the journal. This is interesting in that there are a number of other accounts of the F&I war where the year is wrong.
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7th The Ennemy kept firing from their Batterys till 10 o"Clock in the Morning when we Saw a Flag of Truce at the Garden, which deliver'd a letter taken by the Indians from a Connecticut Serjt. sent form Genl. Webb to the Commanding Officer.
Note that the courier is a Provincial sergeant and not militia. No Winthrop and his men, just Provincials and Regulars, uniformed troops under arms. So no militia men recruited, no desertions, no arguments between the Regulars and the backwoods inhabitants of upper New York, and thus the entire plot of LOTM disappears. Hawkeye and friends would have shot the elk, had supper with the Camerons and headed on west to Can-tuck-ee (assuming they finally figured out that Can-tuck-ee is not west, Lake Ontario is). |
"Les deux pieds contre la muraille et la tete sous le robinet" |
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - November 12 2013 : 12:50:00 PM
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Ever see this paiinting? Note that Wiki describes it as: quote:
Benjamin West's depiction of William Johnson sparing Baron Dieskau's life after the battle (Battle of Lake George - 1755)
It is actually a painting of an incident at Fort Niagara in 1759 (where Johnson inherited the command after Prideaux was killed) but is is of him saving a unknown French officer and not Dieskau. |
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Posted - November 12 2013 : 5:02:47 PM
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For quite a number of years now - I've enjoyed "first person" accounts of historic times. Sometimes you do get exaggerations, but you also get the unvarnished truth, ... It's much more enjoyable than reading someones interpretation of events - even with all the misspelling & grammatical errors.
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - November 12 2013 : 5:24:12 PM
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| A while back I bought a book which contains all the primary accounts of Braddock's campaign. It is amazing what you can learn from just reading the various accounts then looking at them as a whole. The picture is quite different that in most books (which are written with a objective in mind). |
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