Montcalm's allies had already begun to move…
August 1757 CE
Montcalm and the remaining forces had sailed the next day, and met with Lévis for the night at Ganaouske Bay.
Lévis had camped the next night, just three miles (four point eight kilometers) from Fort William Henry, with Montcalm not far behind.
Early on the morning of August 3, Lévis and the Canadians had blocked the road between Edward and William Henry, skirmishing with the recently arrived Massachusetts militia.
Montcalm had summoned Monro to surrender at 11:00 AM.
Monro had refused, and sent messengers south to Fort Edward, indicating the dire nature of the situation and requesting reinforcements.
Webb, feeling threatened by Lévis, had refused to send any of his estimated sixteen hundred men north, since they are all that stand between the French and Albany.
He writes to Monro on August 4 that he should negotiate the best terms possible; this communication is intercepted and delivered to Montcalm.
Montcalm, in the meantime, orders Bourlamaque to begin siege operations.
The French open trenches to the northwest of the fort with the objective of bringing their artillery to bear against the fort's northwest bastion.
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