"The Battle of Lake George" Topic
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| Tango01 | 12 Jan 2023 7:59 p.m. PST |
"In 1754, the commander of British forces, General Edward Braddock, assigned honorary Mohawk chief William Johnson with the task of defeating Baron Ludwig August Dieskau's French forces at Crown Point's Fort Saint-Frédéric. Before this could be carried out, though, Braddock and his army met their demise in Pennsylvania, the French searched Braddock's war chest and recovered the plans for Johnson's invasion of the Lake George-Lake Champlain region. In August 1755, General Johnson, initially unaware that the French were in on his plan, took charge of British, Colonial, and Native troops at Fort Edward, located on a bend in the Hudson River. It was Fort Edward that Dieskau decided to attack preemptively before Johnson could continue with his orders…"
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