... and boats for the troops that were listlessly whiling away the season. The enemy was more adventurous. Boldness wins, was Dieskau's maxim. Abandoning the well-concerted plan of an attack on Oswego , Vaudreuil sent him to oppose the army of Johnson. For the defence of the crumbling fortress at Crown Point, seven hundred regulars, sixteen hundred Canadians, and seven hundred savages had assemb...