French and Indian Cruelty Exemplified, in the Life, and Various Vicissitudes of Fortune, of Peter Williamson; Who Was Carried Off from Aberdeen in His Infancy, and Sold for a Slave in Pennsylvania. Containing, the History of the Author's (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 edition. Excerpt: ...sloops; at the.fame time, desired him to cruize as far to the eaftn ward as he could, and to endeavour to prevent the approach of the French on the lake; but meeting the next day with a (mall gale of wind, the large brigantine was drove on shore near Oswego, in attempting tp get into the harbour; of. which misfortune, the Indians immediately gave M. de Montcalm, the French General, notice, who took that opportunity of transporting his heavy cannon to about a mile and a half of the fort, which he could not otherwise have done, had not there been some neglect on our side. For on the i0th, the sirst division of the French being arrived at Anse aux Cabannes, at two-o'clock in the morning; the van guard proceeded at four in the afternoon, by land, across woods, to aqpthercreek within half a league of Oswego, in order tofavour the debarkation. At midnight their sirst division repaired to this creek, and there erected a battery on the lake Ontario., Colonel Mercer, in the morning of the 10th, on.some canoes being seen to the eastward, sent out the small schooner to make discovery of what they were; she was scarce half a mile from the fort, before she discovered a very large encampment, clofe under the opposite point, being the sirst division of the French troops above mentioned. On this, the two Hoops (the large brigantine being still on shore) were sent out with orders, if poffible, to annoy the enemy i but this was to no purpofe; the enemy's cannon being large and well pointed, hulled the vessehj Vcssil4 almost every shot, while theirs sell short of the shore. This day and the next, the enemy were employed in making gabions, faucissons, and fascines, and in cutting a road acrofs the woods, from the place of landing, to the place where the trenches...