2008 Events: Battle on Snowshoes
This in recently from the egroup:
We have high hopes that the Battle on Snowshoes event, scheduled for March 8th, will require snowshoes! It looks good so far. The Nadeau property, to the north of the Ticonderoga Country Club is a potential site for the start of the engagement. The Country Club has agreed to allow the use of their property, we will have to be careful of the "greens" area if there is no snow cover. This will be a one-day event, those who wish to stay overnight will have to make arrangements ( NOTE: the seamstress will post motel information from the Ti Chamber of Commerce as the date gets closer...) Registration information should be going out to unit commanders soon.
Best wishes to all for a very Merry Christmas!
I shall remain your most faithful...
S. Fuller
Battle on Snowshoes, March 13, 1758. The Participants
The English:
" No one was ordered on this hazardous expedition". ( Volume 1- The Beginnings. Burt Loescher 1946.) All members were volunteeres. They included 11 offficers, 11 sergents and150 privates from Roger's Rangers, along with additons from Putnam's Ct. company, the 27th Inniskilling, and some who had served in Roger's Cadet Company. The total in tis "flying party was 184 officers and men.
The French:
Sieur La Durantage, an ensign in the Colony Regulars, had recently
arrived at Ticonderoga with 200 iroquois and Nippssings from Soult St.
Louis and the Lake of the Two Mountains. He also brought several
Colonial Cadets and 30 Canadians.
On the morning of the 13th, the Indians had applied to Capt.
Hebercourt, Commandant of Ticonderoga, for provisions and brandy. A
small Indian scout returned from Lake George and reported fresh tracks
of 200 men on the west side of the lake near Bald Mt. This news excited
the "refreshed" Indians, and a confrontation between the enemies drew
near. The brush fighter Langy was present and his desire for action
added 30 Canadians and several Lieutenants , sergeants and privates
from the garrison regulars. The French forces now totalled 300.
Respectfully submitted, S. Fuller, Lake George Scout (and his
scribe, Sharon Bell)
We have high hopes that the Battle on Snowshoes event, scheduled for March 8th, will require snowshoes! It looks good so far. The Nadeau property, to the north of the Ticonderoga Country Club is a potential site for the start of the engagement. The Country Club has agreed to allow the use of their property, we will have to be careful of the "greens" area if there is no snow cover. This will be a one-day event, those who wish to stay overnight will have to make arrangements ( NOTE: the seamstress will post motel information from the Ti Chamber of Commerce as the date gets closer...) Registration information should be going out to unit commanders soon.
Best wishes to all for a very Merry Christmas!
I shall remain your most faithful...
S. Fuller
Battle on Snowshoes, March 13, 1758. The Participants
The English:
" No one was ordered on this hazardous expedition". ( Volume 1- The Beginnings. Burt Loescher 1946.) All members were volunteeres. They included 11 offficers, 11 sergents and150 privates from Roger's Rangers, along with additons from Putnam's Ct. company, the 27th Inniskilling, and some who had served in Roger's Cadet Company. The total in tis "flying party was 184 officers and men.
The French:
Sieur La Durantage, an ensign in the Colony Regulars, had recently
arrived at Ticonderoga with 200 iroquois and Nippssings from Soult St.
Louis and the Lake of the Two Mountains. He also brought several
Colonial Cadets and 30 Canadians.
On the morning of the 13th, the Indians had applied to Capt.
Hebercourt, Commandant of Ticonderoga, for provisions and brandy. A
small Indian scout returned from Lake George and reported fresh tracks
of 200 men on the west side of the lake near Bald Mt. This news excited
the "refreshed" Indians, and a confrontation between the enemies drew
near. The brush fighter Langy was present and his desire for action
added 30 Canadians and several Lieutenants , sergeants and privates
from the garrison regulars. The French forces now totalled 300.
Respectfully submitted, S. Fuller, Lake George Scout (and his
scribe, Sharon Bell)
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