Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers by Robert Rogers

Author:Robert Rogers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Press
Published: 2016-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

1759

Notwithstanding little was effected by our late campaign to Ticonderoga; yet the British arms in America were not everywhere unsuccessful: for Col. Broadstreet, with a detachment of 2000 men, reduced the French fort at Chateaugay, called Fort Frontenac, and General Amherst, who commanded the British troops at Cape Breton, had succeeded in the reduction of that important fortress, and now returned from his conquest with a part of the troops that had been employed there, and was appointed commander in chief of his Majesty’s forces in North America (General Abercromby embarking for England). The head quarters were now fixed at New York, and I had now new commanders to obey, new companions to converse with, and, as it were, a new apprenticeship to serve. From Albany, where I was settling some accounts with the Paymaster, I began my acquaintance by the following letter to Col. Townsend, Deputy Adjutant General to his Excellency.

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