The French and Indian WarStuff Happened · War
Battle · 1755
Lake George
A Prospective Plan of the Battle near Lake George, Sept. 8, 1755 · Samuel Blodget, engraved by Thomas Johnston · 1755 · Smithsonian American Art Museum · public domain
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The march south
The Bloody Morning Scout
Johnson sends a thousand men and the Mohawk south to meet the French, and they walk into a trap in a ravine three miles from camp.
2The camp stands
The wagons and the guns
Behind a barricade of wagons and cannon, the provincials hold while Dieskau's grenadiers march into the grapeshot and the Mohawk kin on both sides refuse to kill each other.
The reckoning
Bloody Pond and after
A victory that stops short of its objective: Johnson builds two forts, collects a baronetcy, and leaves the corridor half open for two more years of fighting.