The Battle of Lake George is fought on September 8, 1755, in the north of the Province of New York.
The battle is part of a campaign by the British to expel the French from North America in the French and Indian War.
On one side are fifteen hundred French, Canadien, and Indian troops under the command of the Baron de Dieskau and on the other side fifteen hundred colonial troops under William Johnson and two hundred Mohawks led by a noted war chief, Hendrick Theyanoguin.
