sep 8, 1755 - The Battle of Lake George
Description:
- In the north of the Province of New York
- Part of a campaign by the British to expel the French from North America
- Williams' column marched straight into the trap and was engulfed in a blaze of enemy musketry
-Dieskau ordered his Canadians and Indians to follow up their success with an attack on Johnson's camp
- When Dieskau went down with a serious wound, the French attack was abandoned.
- Col. Joseph Blanchard, commander of Fort Edward sent out Nathaniel Folsom's 80-strong company of the New Hampshire Provincial Regiment and 40 New York Provincials under Capt. McGinnis to investigate
- securing the entire baggage and ammunition of the French army
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