Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Thisletter was intercepted by Mont-calm, who was on the point ofraising the siege, and he for-warded it to Monroe, with arenewed demand for his sur-render. The brave veteran heldout, however, until nearly all hisguns were disabled and his am-munition nearly exhausted. Hethen hung out a flag of truce,and Montcalm, who was too truea hero not to appreciate valor ina foe, granted him liberal terms.The garrison were allowed tomarch out with the honors ofwar upon giving their parole notto serve against France for eight-een months. They were to re-tain their private property andwere to liberate all their pris-oners. On the ninth of Augustthe fort was surrendered to theFrench.Montcalm had kept the savages fromliquor, in order to be able to restrain themin the hour of victory. They now soughtand obtained rum from the English, andspent the night in dancing and singing. Thenext morning, as the English marched outof their camp, the Indians fell upon them andbegan to plunder them. From robbery the
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3o8 THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. excited savaj^es soon passed to murder,and many of the English were killed andothers made prisoners. The French officersthrew themselves into the melee and exertedthemselves gallantly to control the Indians.Many of them were wounded in these efforts.Montcalm in an agony implored the Indiansto respect the treaty. Kill me, he cried,as he struggled to restrain the savages, butspare the English, who are under my protec-tion. He called to the English soldiers todefend themselves. The retreat to FortEdward became a disorderly fight. Onlyabout six hundred men reached there in abody. More than four hundred had soughtshelter in the French camp, and were sentby Montcalm to their friends under the pro-tection of a strong escort. He also sent oneof his officers to ransom those who had beentaken prisoners by the Indians. The vaststores accumulated at Fort William Henrywere carried away by the French, and thework itself demolished. Triumph of the French. The loss of F

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