mmunition, and receiving no relief or assistance from General Webb,
at Fort Edward, fourteen miles distant, with 4,000 men, Col. Monro
surrendered upon the conditions that the garrison should march out with
arms, the baggage of the officers and men, and all the usual necessaries
of war, escorted by a detachment of French troops to Fort Edward, and
interpreters attached to the savages. But, as in the case of the
surrender of Oswego, the articles of capitulation were not observed, but
were perfidiously broken; the savages fell upon the British troops as
they were marched out, despoiled them of their few remaining effects,
dragged the Indians in the English service out of their ranks, and
assassinated them under circumstances of unheard-of barbarity. Some
soldiers with their wives and children are said to have been savagely
murdered by these brutal Indians. The greater part of the garrison,
however, arrived at Fort Edward under the protection of the French
escort. The enemy demolished the fort, carried off the effects,
provisions, and everything else left by the garrison, together with the
vessels preserved in the lake, and departed without pursuing their
success by any other attempt. "Thus ended," continues the historian,
"the third campaign in America (1757), where, with an evident
superiority over the enemy, an army of 20,000 regular troops, a great
number of provincial forces, and a prodigious naval power--not less than
twenty ships of the line--we abandoned our allies, exposed our people,
suffered them to be cruelly massacred in sight of our troops, and
relinquished a large and valuable tract of country, to the eternal
reproach and disgrace of the British name." (Hume and Smollett's History
of England, Vol. XII., pp. 207-211.)

Mr. Hildreth remarks: "In America, after three campaigns, and
extraordinary efforts on the part of the English, the French still held
possession of almost all the territory in dispute. They had been
expelled indeed from the Bay of Fundy, but they held Louisburg,
commanding the entrance to the St. Lawrence, Crown Point, and
Ticonderaga, on Lake Champlain; Frontenac and Niagara, on Lake Ontario;
Presque Isle, on Lake Erie; and the chains of forts thence to the head
of the Ohio were still in their hands. They had expelled the English
from their ancient fort at Oswego, had driven them from Lake George, and
compelled the Six Nations to a treaty of neutrality. A devastating
Indian war was raging alon