The natives in the French party, after…
September 1755 CE
Johnson sends Colonel Ephraim Williams south at 9 am on September 8 to reinforce Fort Edward with two hundred Mohawk allies and one thousand troops from Williams' Massachusetts Regiment and Colonel Nathan Whiting's Connecticut Regiment.
Dieskau, warned by a deserter of Williams' approach, blocks the portage road with his French grenadiers and sends his Canadians and natives to ambush the British from both sides of the road.
They lie in wait in a ravine three miles south of the present-day village of Lake George.
Groups
Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations)
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Maliseet, or Wolastoqiyik, people (Amerind tribe)
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Abenaki people (Amerind tribe)
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Mi'kmaq people (Amerind tribe)
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Christians, Roman Catholic
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Mohawk people (Amerind tribe)
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Wabanaki Confederacy
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Passamaquoddy (Amerind tribe)
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New France (French Colony)
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Anglicans (Episcopal Church of England)
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Puritans
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France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
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New York, Province of (English Colony)
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Massachusetts, Province of (English Crown Colony)
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Britain, Kingdom of Great
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Nova Scotia (British Colony)
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