Ticonderoga 1758,
Montcalm's Victory Against All Odds by René Chartrand
On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort
Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers
ran into a from a French scouting party and, in the fierce skirmish that
followed, Lord Howe, the darling of the army, was shot through the heart.
The army was shattered at the loss and Abercromby went to pieces. He
decided to attack French General Montcalm's completed breastworks on the
Ticonderoga heights head-on. Battalion after battalion was sacrificed, the
most famous of these hopeless assaults being that of the Black Watch. With
the failure of his plan and the exhaustion of his army Abercromby
retreated to the foot of Lake George - Montcalm had saved Canada, with
Abercromby's help.
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