New York's part in history . ne soldier and free from thenarrow-minded prejudices so common among the British offi-cers of that time, but he grasped the colonial point of viewand recognized the worth of the men who had had experiencein border warfare. In speaking of the British officers inAmerica, Hart, in his Fall of New France, says that bothLoudon and Abercrombie were notorious for previous incom-petency. An attempt was made to reduce Louisburg. Amherst wasto lead twelve thousand men against it. Admiral BoscaAveuwas to cooperate with him and for this purpose had twenty-three ships of the li
New York's part in history . ne soldier and free from thenarrow-minded prejudices so common among the British offi-cers of that time, but he grasped the colonial point of viewand recognized the worth of the men who had had experiencein border warfare. In speaking of the British officers inAmerica, Hart, in his Fall of New France, says that bothLoudon and Abercrombie were notorious for previous incom-petency. An attempt was made to reduce Louisburg. Amherst wasto lead twelve thousand men against it. Admiral BoscaAveuwas to cooperate with him and for this purpose had twenty-three ships of the line and seventeen frigates. While Am-herst and Boscawen were attempting the reduction of thestrongest fortress in America, Abercrombie assembled twentythousand men at Albany for a movement against the Frenchat Ticonderoga. He had the largest, strongest and bestequipped force ever gathered under one command in Amer-ica. O^. third of his army was made up of British regu-lars. The movements against Fort Duquesne and Louisburg 94. o o c W .2 K) THE STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY drew so heavily upon the French forces for defense that]\Iontcalm had less than four thousand men with which tooppose the overwhelming force of Abercrombie. It seemedthe greatest folly to attempt the defense of Ticonderogaunder such circumstances, but ]\IontcaIm decided on takinga chance on the stupidity of Abercrombie—a risk thatthe very recent past warranted and which the result justi-fied. Nine thousand provincial troops and seven thousand Brit-ish regulars assembled at Lake George. The massacre atFort William Henry only the year before was fresh in theminds of the men and they were eager to avenge the deathof their friends and countrymen. On the 6th of July thelargest army that had ever gathered at Lake George embarkedon a fleet of more than a thousand boats: batteaus, whaleboats and flat boats. Flags were flying, bands and bagpipesplaying and bugles sounding. Barclaj sajs: The summerdawn was brilliant and clo
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