With Rogers on the Frontier
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Oxley James Macdonald. With Rogers on the Frontier
CHAPTER I. ENGLISH AGAINST FRENCH
CHAPTER II. A PERILOUS RIDE
CHAPTER III. BULLETS AND BAYONETS
CHAPTER IV. THE DEFEAT OF DIESKAU
CHAPTER V. OFF ON A SCOUT
CHAPTER VI. ONE OF ROGERS' RANGERS
CHAPTER VII. REUBEN GETS INTO THE RANGERS ALSO
CHAPTER VIII. OFF TO CROWN POINT
CHAPTER IX. DOING DAMAGE TO THE ENEMY
CHAPTER X. TO BOSTON TOWN
CHAPTER XI. SETH RECEIVES PROMOTION
CHAPTER XII. FROM PERIL TO PERIL
CHAPTER XIII. SCOUTING IN WHALEBOATS
CHAPTER XIV. THE FIGHT IN THE FOREST
CHAPTER XV. FORT WILLIAM HENRY IN DANGER
CHAPTER XVI. THE FOILING OF THE FRENCH
CHAPTER XVII. THE SIEGE OF FORT WILLIAM HENRY
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MASSACRE OF THE ENGLISH
CHAPTER XIX. AN ADVENTURE IN NEW YORK
CHAPTER XX. SCOUTING IN A NEW FIELD
CHAPTER XXI. AN EASY TRIUMPH
CHAPTER XXII. AT CLOSE GRIPS WITH DEATH
CHAPTER XXIII. OUT OF CAPTIVITY INTO ACTION AGAIN
CHAPTER XXIV. THE GLORIOUS VICTORY
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In order to a clear understanding of the situation it is necessary at this point to leave the provincial army for a little while and take a glance at what the French were doing.
They were by no means idle. While the British were preparing to attack Crown Point they were preparing to defend it, having first got warning of their purpose from the letters of the unfortunate Braddock found on the battlefield, which information was confirmed by the report of a reconnoitring party that had made its way as far as the Hudson, and returned with the news that Johnson's forces were already on the field.
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Had the garrison known the reason for the non-appearance of the enemy they might not only have rested with easy minds, but might even have taken the field on their own account, as all danger of attack had passed for a time. The change of plan on the part of the French had been brought about in this way.
They had made their way through the forest until they were within three miles of Fort Lyman, and there as they halted for the night a dozen wagons came along the road from Lake George. They were in charge of mutinous drivers who had left the English camp without orders, little dreaming the punishment that waited their misconduct. Several of them were shot, two were captured, and the remainder escaped into the woods with the Indians at their heels.
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