Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau, with a view…

September 1755 CE

Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau, with a view to stopping Johnson's advance, had already left Crown Point for an encampment situated between the two lakes (later to be built into Fort Carillon, the precursor of Fort Ticonderoga.)

Dieskau had decided on September 4 to launch a raid on Johnson's base, the recently constructed Fort Edward (at this time called Fort Lyman) on the Hudson River.

His aim is to destroy the boats, supplies and artillery that Johnson needs for his campaign.

Leaving half his force at Carillon, Dieskau leads the rest on an alternate route to the Hudson by landing his men at South Bay and then marching them east of Lake George along Wood Creek.

Dieskau arrives near Fort Edward on the evening of September 7, 1755 with two hundred and twenty-two French regular grenadiers from the Régiment de la Reine and the Régiment de Languedoc, six hundred Canadian militia and seven hundred Abenaki and Caughnawaga Mohawk allies.

Johnson, camped fourteen miles (twenty-three kilometers) north of Fort Edward at the southern end of Lake George, is alerted by scouts to the presence of the enemy forces to his south, and he dispatches a messenger to warn the five hundred-man garrison at Fort Edward, but the messenger is intercepted, and soon afterward a supply train is captured, with the result that the disposition of all of Johnson's forces becomes known to Dieskau.

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Edward Cornwallis View → George II of Great Britain View → Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre View → Louis XV of France View → William Johnson, 1st Baronet View →

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