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Hudson River (United States) (search for this): entry saratoga-attack-upon
Canada (Canada) (search for this): entry saratoga-attack-upon
Fort Clinton (New York, United States) (search for this): entry saratoga-attack-upon
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Saratoga, attack upon
Late in the fall of 1745, an expedition consisting of more than 500 French and Indians and a few disaffected warriors of the Six Nations, led by M. Marin, an active French officer, invaded the upper valley of the Hudson, and by their operations spread alarm as far south as the Hudson Highlands.
They came down from Montreal, and reached Crown Point on Nov. 28, intending to penetrate the valley of the Connecticut.
At the suggestion of Father Piquet, the French Prefet Apostolique to Canada, who met the expedition at Crown Point, Marin determined to lead his party towards Albany and cut off the advancing English settlements.
They passed up Lake Champlain, crossed over to the Hudson River, destroyed a lumber-yard on the site of Fort Edward, and approached the thriving settlement of Saratoga, at the junction of Fish Creek and the Hudson.
It was a scattered little village, composed mostly of the tenants of Philip Schuyler, who owned mills and a large landed es
Marin (Nuevo Leon, Mexico) (search for this): entry saratoga-attack-upon
Fort Edward (New York, United States) (search for this): entry saratoga-attack-upon
John Burgoyne (search for this): entry saratoga-attack-upon
Te Deum (search for this): entry saratoga-attack-upon
Francis Piquet (search for this): entry saratoga-attack-upon
M. Marin (search for this): entry saratoga-attack-upon
Saratoga, attack upon
Late in the fall of 1745, an expedition consisting of more than 500 French and Indians and a few disaffected warriors of the Six Nations, led by M. Marin, an active French officer, invaded the upper valley of the Hudson, and by their operations spread alarm as far south as the Hudson Highlands.
They came down from Montreal, and reached Crown Point on Nov. 28, intending to penetrate the valley of the Connecticut.
At the suggestion of Father Piquet, the French Prefet Apostolique to Canada, who met the expedition at Crown Point, Marin determined to lead his party towards Albany and cut off the advancing English settlements.
They passed up Lake Champlain, crossed over to the Hudson River, destroyed a lumber-yard on the site of Fort Edward, and approached the thriving settlement of Saratoga, at the junction of Fish Creek and the Hudson.
It was a scattered little village, composed mostly of the tenants of Philip Schuyler, who owned mills and a large landed es