irect violation
of the articles as well as in contempt of common humanity, delivered up
above twenty men of the garrison to the Indians in lieu of the same
number they had lost during the siege; and in all probability these
miserable captives were put to death by those barbarians, with the most
excruciating tortures, according to the execrable custom of the country.

"The prisoners taken at Oswego, after having been thus barbarously
treated, were conveyed in batteaux to Montreal, where they had no reason
to complain of their reception; and before the end of the year they were
exchanged. The victors immediately demolished the two forts (if they
deserved that denomination), in which they found one hundred and
twenty-one pieces of artillery, fourteen mortars, with a great quantity
of ammunition, warlike stores and provisions, besides two ships and two
hundred batteaux, which likewise fell into their hands." (Hume and
Smollett's History of England, Vol. XII., pp. 92-94.)

"The policy of the French was no less conspicuous than the superiority
of their arms. Instead of continuing the fort at Oswego, they demolished
it in presence of the Indians of the Five Nations, to whom they
represented that the French aimed only at enabling them to preserve
their neutrality, and therefore destroyed the fortress which the English
had erected in their country to overawe them, disdaining themselves to
take the same advantage, although put in their hands by the right of
conquest." (Minot's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I., pp. 285,
286.)]

[Footnote 235: Fort William Henry was situated on the southern coast of
Lake George, and was built with a view to protect the frontiers of the
English colonies--especially New York and Massachusetts. The
fortifications were good, defended by a garrison of three thousand men,
and covered by an army of four thousand, under the command of General
Webb, posted at no great distance at Fort Edward. The Marquis de
Montcalm had, early in the season, made three different attacks upon
Fort William Henry, in each of which he was repulsed by the resolute and
courageous garrison. But Montcalm at length assembled all his forces
from Crown Point, Ticonderaga, and other parts, amounting to nearly
10,000, including a considerable body of Canadians and Indians; attacked
and invested the fort, which sustained the siege from the 3rd to the 9th
of August, when, having burst most of their cannon, and expended their
own a