The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . rtEdward. Its door aud windows were strongly barred, and near the roofthe walls were pierced for musketry. It was erected upon a high mound,and palisaded, as a defence against enemies. In 1709 an expedition was prepared for the conquest of Canada. Thecommander of the division to attack Montreal was Francis Nicholson,?\\lio had been lieutenant-governor of the province of New York. Underhis diacction a military road, forty miles in length, was opened fromSaratoga, on the east side of the Hudson, to White Hall, on Lake Cham-plain. Along this route thre
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . rtEdward. Its door aud windows were strongly barred, and near the roofthe walls were pierced for musketry. It was erected upon a high mound,and palisaded, as a defence against enemies. In 1709 an expedition was prepared for the conquest of Canada. Thecommander of the division to attack Montreal was Francis Nicholson,?\\lio had been lieutenant-governor of the province of New York. Underhis diacction a military road, forty miles in length, was opened fromSaratoga, on the east side of the Hudson, to White Hall, on Lake Cham-plain. Along this route three forts were erected. The upper one wasnamed Fort Anne, in honour of the Queen of England ; the middle one,of which Lydiuss house formed a part, was called Fort Nicholson, in honour of the commander; and the lower one, just below the mouth of the Batten-Kill, was namedFort Saratoga. Almost fifty years later, whena provincial army, under General Johnson, ofthe Mohawk valley, and General Lyman, ofConnecticut, was moving forward to drive the. GRouKD-PLAx OF FORT Frcuch from Lake Champlain, a strong irregular quadrangular fort was erected by the latterofficer, upon the site of Fort Nicholson, and the fortification was calledFort Lyman, in his honour. It was not fairly completed when a successfulbattle was fought with the French and Indians under the Earon Dieskau,at the head of Lake George, the honours of which were more greatly THE HUDSON. 75 due to Lyman than Johnson. But the latter was chief commander. Hisking, as we have seen, gave him the honours of knighthood and £4, a mean spirit of jealousy, Johnson not only omitted to mention GeneralLyman in his despatches, but changed the name of the fort which he haderected, to Edward, in honour of one of the royal family of England. Fort Edward Avas an important military post during the whole of theFrench and Indian war,—that Seven Years War which cost Englandmore than a hundred millions of pounds sterling, and laid one of th
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