The Campaign of 1759
A Fort Ticonderoga Bibliography, © Fort Ticonderoga
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Key Names
Lt. General Jeffery Amherst
Philip Skene, Capt. Inniskilling and later Brigade Major
Colonel Roger Townsend, Deputy Adjutant General, killed 25
July 1759
Captain d’Hébécourt, Regiment de la Reine
Sieur de Bourlamaque
See Dictionary of American Biography (US) and Dictionary of
Canadian Biography, vols. II and III, for key names.
See also related campaign bibliographies available here.
British Unit Roster 
British Regulars
1st Foot (Royal Regiment)
17th Foot (late Forbes’)
27th Foot (Inniskilling)
42nd Foot (Royal Highland)
55th Foot (Prideaux’s / late Howe’s)
77th Foot (Montgomery’s Highlanders)
80th Foot (Gage’s Light Infantry)
Major Allan Campbell’s Grenadiers
4th and 17th Battalions Royal Artillery
Major Robert Rogers’ Rangers
British Provincials
Colonel Timothy Ruggles’ Massachusetts Regiment
Colonel Abijah Willard’s Massachusetts Regiment
Colonel John Bradstreet’s Batteaumen
Colonel Zacheus Lovewell’s New Hampshire Regiment
Colonel Peter Schuyler’s Jersey Blues
Colonel Henry Babcock’s Rhode Island Regiment
Colonel Phineas Lyman’s 1st Connecticut Regiment
Colonel Nathaniel Whiting’s 2nd Connecticut Regiment
Colonel David Wooster’s 3rd Connecticut Regiment
Colonel Eleazer Fitch’s 4th Connecticut Regiment
Bibliographies
Henry P. Beers, "The Papers of the British Commanders in
Chief in North America, 1754-1783," Military Affairs, vol. XIII
(1949), pp. 79-94.
Douglas Brymner, comp., "Calendar of the Haldimand
Collection," Report on Canadian Archives, 1884-1889. [FTA #2011-2015]
J.C. Long, The Plimpton Collection of French and Indian
War Items, Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst College, 1934.
James G. Lydon, Struggle for Empire: A Bibliography of the
French and Indian War, Garland, 1986. [FTA #1990.13].
Secondary Studies
"A Lake Champlain Gunboat of 1760," The Magazine
of History, vol. VIII no. 7 (July 1882), pp. 498-499. [FTA #4457].
Fred Anderson, A People’s Army: Massachusetts Soldiers
and Society in the Seven Years’ War, Chapel Hill, University of North
Carolina Press, 1984. [FTA #1989.5]. Anderson lists many Massachusetts soldiers’
journals in Appendix B.
Russell P. Bellico, Sails and Steam in the Mountains: A
Maritime and Military History of Lake George and Lake Champlain, Fleischmanns, New York, Purple Mountain Press, 1992, pp. 86-113.
[FTA #1992. ].
Jacques Bodin, L’histoire extraordinaire des Soldats de
la Nouvelle France, Paris, Édition O.C.A. Communication (pour le Mémorial
des Soldats de la Nouvelle France), 1993. [FTA].
Casgrain, H.-R., l’Abbé, Guerre du Canada, 1756-1760:
Montcalm et de Lévis, Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1898. [FTA #3212].
Casgrain, H.-R., l’Abbé, Makers of Canada: Wolfe and
Montcalm, London and Toronto, 1905. [FTA #3335].
Thomas Marie Charland, "The Lake Champlain Army and the
Fall of Montreal," Vermont History, vol. 28 (1960), pp. 292-301.
Guy Oberon Coolidge, The French Occupation of the
Champlain Valley, 2nd ed., Mamaroneck, New York, Harbor Hill Books, 1989,
pp. 157-166. [FTA #1992. ] Reprint from Proceedings, Vermont Historical
Society, vol. 6 no. 3 (1938) [FTA #689].
John R. Cuneo, Robert Rogers of the Rangers, New York,
Oxford University Press, 1959. [FTA #3247]; Fort Ticonderoga paperback reprint
edition, 1988, pp. 91-116. [FTA #1991.18].
Rev. John Entick, General History of the Late War,
London, 1765, 5 vols. [FTA #3213-3217]. See esp. vol. III.
Hon. J.W. Fortescue, A History of the British Army,
London, 1899, pp. 358-372. [FTA/Olson #34].
Lawrence Henry Gipson, The Great War for Empire: The
Victorious Years (vol. VII), New York, Knopf, 1949, esp. pp. 360-370. [FTA-#2852].
Col. Edward P. Hamilton, Fort Ticonderoga: Key to a
Continent, Boston, Little, Brown, 1964, pp. 87-100. [FTA].
Col. Edward P. Hamilton, The French and Indian War,
New York, Doubleday, 1962, pp. 261-268. [FTA #3244].
Régine Hubert-Robert, Les Lys et le Lion en Amérique,
une guerre franco-anglaise, 1534-1760, Paris, Édition Albatross, 1980.
Francis Jennings, The Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies
and Tribes in the Seven Years’ War in America, New York, W.W. Norton,
1988, p. 422. [FTA #1991.20]
Bernard Knollenberg, "General Amherst and Germ
Warfare," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 41 (1954), pp.
489-494; and reply by Donald H. Kent, ibid., pp. 762-763.
David Lee, "The Contest for Isle-aux-Noix, 1759-1760: A
Case Study in the Fall of New France," Vermont History, vol. 37
(1969), pp. 96-107.
Dennis Lewis, "The Naval Campaign of 1759 on Lake
Champlain," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XIV
no. 4 (Fall 1983), pp. 203-216.
Burt Garfield Loescher, Genesis: Rogers' Rangers, The
First Green Berets, San Mateo, California, 1969. Volume 2 covers 6 April
1758-24 December 1783. [FTA #3270].
John Cuthbert Long, "Amherst in 1759," New York
History, vol. 15 (1934), pp. 50-58. [FTA #4831].
D. Peter MacLeod, The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven
Years’ War, Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1996, pp. 129-154. Canadian War Museum
Publication no. 29.
Ian McCulloch, "Buckskin Soldier: The Rise and Fall of
Major Robert Rogers," The Beaver (April-May 1993), pp. 17-26.
Ian McCulloch, "‘But the King Must Be Obeyed’:
Montcalm at Quebec, 1759," The Beaver (October-November 1992), pp.
5-15.
George Ochoa, The Fall of Quebec and the French and Indian
War, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Silver Burdett, 1990, pp. 33-41. [FTA].
Children’s book especially strong in graphics.
Francis Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, Frontenac ed., 3
vols., Boston, 1884.
Stephen H.P. Pell, Fort Ticonderoga: A Short History,
Ticonderoga, Fort Ticonderoga, 1935+, pp. 46-52. [FTA #2543].
Frederick B. Richards, "The Black Watch at Ticonderoga
and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe," Proceedings, New York State
Historical Association, vol. X (1911), pp. 367-464. [FTA #4809]. See pp. 438-451
for the 1759 campaign. The Fort Ticonderoga paperback reprint is [FTA #P-1808].
Sigmund Samuels, The Seven Years’ War in Canada,
1756-1763, Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1934. [FTA #3228].
Capt. Maurice Sautai, Montcalm au combat de Carillon,
Paris, Librairie Militaire R. Chapelot et C:ie, 1909. Fully documented. Includes
detailed maps of troop dispositions. [FTA # ]. English translation John S.
Watts, c. 1923, published by Fort Ticonderoga. Sources not given in the English
edition. [FTA #3333].
William Smith, The History of the Late Province of New
York, 2 vols., New York, 1830. [FTA #4515-4516]. See esp. vol. II.
W. Thomas, "Stations of Troops in North America,
1757-1760," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research,
vol. XIV (1935), pp. 235-236.
Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George II,
vol. III (1758-1760), John Brooke, ed., New Haven, Yale University Press, 1985;
Book 9, Memoirs of the Year 1759, pp. 70-83. Appendix 10, pp. 175-176: A Later
Note on General Amherst. Amherst "terminated the American war with so much
ability; being afterwards raised to the command of the army at home, was
discovered and universally allowed to be a man of impenetrable stupidity; and
incapable or neglectful of the most common details of his office."
Harry M. Ward, General William Maxwell and the New Jersey
Continentals, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1997, Chapter 1. [FTA
1997. ].
Primary Sources: British
Anonymous diary, 1759. Military at Crown Point and Saratoga.
American Antiquarian Society. Matthews, American Diaries in Manuscript
#344.
Anonymous diary, 1759. Crown Point, American Antiquarian
Society. Matthews, American Diaries in Manuscript #346.
"Account of the Expedition on Lake Champlain," London
Magazine, December 1759. Reprinted from the London Gazette. The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. VI no. 3 (January 1942), pp.
108-111.
John Clarence Webster, ed., Journal of Jeffery Amherst
Recording the Military Career of General Amherst in America from 1758 to 1763,
Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1931. [FTA #3340].
"The Amherst Expedition Against Ticonderoga, 1759:
Extracts from the General Orders of the Army," The Bulletin of the Fort
Ticonderoga Museum, vol. VI no. 3 (January 1942), pp. 88-105. Amherst’s
artillery train for the siege of Carillon itemized, p. 97. Carillon described,
p. 105.
John Clarence Webster, ed., Journal of William Amherst in
America, 1758-1760, Frone and London, Butler and Tanner, Ltd., 1927. [FTA
P-4030] and [FTA #-3283]. 18 March 1758-8 September 1760. William is brother of
the General; sent as messenger to report the news of the capture of Carillon.
Letters of William Amherst to various family members,
1759-1760. Offered in Helen R. Kahn Antiquarian Books, Montreal, catalogue 32
(1991), items 51-57. No. 52 reminisces about Ticonderoga.
Letter of Jeffery Amherst to John Bradstreet, Proceedings
of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 53 (1920), p. 24. Regarding
transfer of military baggage at Crown Point, 2 November 1759.
Letter of Jeffery Amherst to John Bradstreet, from Camp at
Crown Point, 2 September 1759. Published in The Bulletin of the Fort
Ticonderoga Museum, vol. VI no. 3 (January 1942), p. 111. [FTA #M- ].
Letter of Major General Jeffery Amherst to Rt. Honorable
Secretary William Pitt, "from camp at Ticonderoga," 27 July 1759.
Delivered by Lieutenant-Colonel William Amherst to Whitehall, 8 September 1759.
Letter of Major General Jeffery Amherst to Rt. Honorable
Secretary William Pitt, "from camp at Crown Point," 5 August 1759;
reprinted in Sigmund Samuels, The Seven Years’ War in Canada, 1756-1763,
Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1934, pp. 73-76. [FTA #3228].
Letter of Major General Jeffery Amherst to Rt. Honorable
Secretary William Pitt, "Camp at Crown Point, October 22 [1759]," London
Gazette, 27 November 1759; reprinted in Sigmund Samuels, The Seven Years’
War in Canada, 1756-1763, Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1934, pp. 81-87. [FTA
#3228]. Much information on the competition for naval supremacy on the lake.
Captain Salah Barnard, manuscript Journal, 1758 and 1759
campaigns. Fort Ticonderoga collections. [FTA #M-1991.58]. Barnard was from
Deerfield, Massachusetts.
"Report of J.W. Bradstreet to General Amherst,"
British War Office Records, Amherst College, Special Collections. V 57-58, PRO
160, item 17, reel 35.
Broadside: "Further Success to His Majesty’s Arms:
Postscript to Parker’s New York Gazette (No. 865), Tuesday, July 31,
[1759]," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. VI no. 3
(January 1942), pp. 107-108. Original in Fort Ticonderoga collections.
Lt. Dietrich Brehm, "A New Description of Fort
Ticonderoga," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XI
no. 1 (December 1962), pp. 35-48. March 1759 report by Brehm in Thomas Gage
Papers, William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor. See also FTA map file:
"59brehm."
"Lieut. Brehm’s Report to His Excellency General
Amherst of what is required to be Built or repaired in compleating of Tionderoga,
may 27th 1760." Amherst Papers. #23. [photocopy in FTA research files].
Receipt from Daniel Campbell to Capt. Andrew Truax, 29 June
1759. Receipt from William Gwyne to Tobias Ten Eyck and Abraham Truax. [FTA
#M-2046].
Peter D’Arcy to Rt. Honorable the Earl of Holderness,
Ticonderoga, 27 July 1759. Ms in Fort Ticonderoga collections; gift of Hubert R.
Hudson, 1969. [FTA #48.75 and #M-6034]. Published as "A Family Letter to
the Secretary of State, Ticonderoga, 1759," ed. Nicholas Westbrook, The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XV no. 5 (1993), pp. 388-391.
Rev. E.C. Starr, ed., "Diary of Ebenezer Dibble," Proceedings
of the Society of Colonial Wars for the State of Connecticut, vol. I (1903),
pp. 313-329; contributor, T.S. Woolsey. [FTA #P-5098]. Ensign in 10th company,
3rd Regiment (Col. David Wooster’s), Connecticut troops, 1759, pp. 313-323.
Also diary for 1762 as Ensign in 4th company, 2nd Regiment (Col. Nathan Whiting’s),
Connecticut troops assigned to Crown Point, pp. 324-329. Original ms as of 1903
in the collection of the village library in Cornwall (Litchfield County),
Connecticut. Dibble provides detailed descriptions and measurements of (re)construction
of Fort Ticonderoga structures during October 1759 on p. 318. "Sept 24. Capt
Whitny Got his Hous don and our men is well as common and Cros as Sin.
Ticonteroga 1759." Expenses on these campaigns itemized on pp. 327-329.
Letter: Major John Durkee to Jabez Huntington in Norwich,
Connecticut, Fort George, 29 July 1759. Manuscript in the Fort Ticonderoga
collections [FTA #M-3058]. "Our Army has taken possession of the fort at
Tycondaroga after a siege of four days and without the Expense of one single
shot or shell on our side and with ye Loss of 20 men Killed and 40
wounded." Durkee served in Fitch’s Connecticut regiment.
Letter: Rev. Eli Forbush, Camp at Ticonderoga, to Reverend
John Williams, Long Meadow, Massachusetts, 4 August 1759. Reprinted as "A
Letter From Carillon," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum,
vol. I no. 6 (July 1929), pp. 19-23. Manuscript in the Fort Ticonderoga
collections [FTA #M-1919]. Describes Montcalm’s cross.
William Gavit, "The Gavit Letters, 1759" The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XIV no. 4 (Fall 1983), pp.
217-219. Mss in the Fort Ticonderoga collections. Letters: 28 July 1759 from
"Camp at Ticonderoga," [FTA #M-3056] and "Putnams Post, October
1759" [FTA #M-3057].
Josiah Goodrich, "The Josiah Goodrich Orderbook," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 22 May 1759-30 June 1759 in vol.
XIII no. 6 (Fall 1980), pp. 412-431; 1 July 1759-25 July 1759 in vol. XIV no. 1
(Summer 1981), pp. 39-61. Manuscript then in the collection of Margot Goodrich
Power, Suttons Bay, Michigan.
Josephine Mayer, ed., "The Reminiscences of James
Gordon," New York History, vol. XXXIV (1936), pp. 316-333
(1758-1768) and 423-439 (1759-1780). [FTA #4833]. Gordon (1739-1810): From
Ireland to America in 1758; sutler to Rogers’ Rangers at Crown Point in winter
1759-60; clerk for John Askin and Rogers at Michilimackinac, captured in
Ballston raid, 1780; Congressman; State Senate.
Constantine Hardy, "Extracts from the Journal of
Constantine Hardy in the Crown Point Expedition of 1759," New England
Historic and Genealogical Register, vol. 60 (July 1906), pp. 236-238. [FTA
Research files]. Hardy served in the second battalion of Ruggles’
Massachusetts regiment, Capt. Stephen Maynard.
John Hawkes, Orderly Book and Journal of Major John Hawkes
on the Ticonderoga-Crown Point Campaign . . ., Hugh Hastings, ed., New York,
Society of Colonial Wars, 1911. [FTA-4285]. Manuscript in collections of Vermont
Historical Society. John Hawkes (1707-1784) of Deerfield served in the First
Brigade under Ruggles.
Dr. Thomas Haynes, Sr., "Memorandum of Collonial French
War A.D. 1758," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol.
XII no. 1 (March 1966) pp. 72-78; vol. XII no. 2 (September 1966) pp. 150-160;
vol. XII no. 3 (October 1967) pp. 193-203. 1759 campaign is discussed in this
last section. Ms in Fort Ticonderoga collections.
James Henderson, "Journal of James Henderson [2 May
1759-3 December 1759]." Typescript in Fort Ticonderoga collections, [FTA
#P-5002; missing 2/1994], based on copy in the New England Historical and
Genealogical Society.
Lieutenant William Henshaw, Orderly Book and Journal, Manuscript
Records of the French and Indian War in the Library of the [American
Antiquarian] Society, Transactions and Collections of the American
Antiquarian Society, vol. XI (1909), pp. 180-254. [FTA #3344]. Reprinted by
Heritage Books, 1992. [FTA #1993. ]. Henshaw served in Col. Timothy Ruggles’
Massachusetts regiment, Captain Jeduthan Baldwin’s company, and was stationed
at Ford Edward during the 1759 attack on Carillon.
Captain David Holmes, "Diary, 14 August-21 October
1759" vol. 2 of 2 volumes in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Available on MHS microfilm P-363, reel 13. Holmes’ Company served in Col.
Eliphalet Dyer’s (Third) Regiment of Connecticut provincials from 5 April-16
November 1758.
"The Journal of a Colonial Soldier [‘The Girnal of
John Hurlburt, Jr.’]," The Magazine of American History, vol. XXIX
no. 4 (April 1893), pp. 395-396. [FTA #4478]. John Hurlbut served in the 1759
campaign in Lyman’s Connecticut regiment, Lt. Col. Nathan Payson’s coy
raised in Hartford. Journal covers 20 May-8 December 1759. Good detail on
gardens and naval vessels.
Peter Kimball, diary of march and work at Ticonderoga and
Crown Point (p. 19), 1760. Also with tavern accounts after 1764 at Boscawen, N.H.;
44 pp. In the collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, ms #1927-7.
Typed transcript in stacks: 920/K4992.
Captain John Knox, An Historical Journal of the Campaigns
in North America, for the Years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760, 2 volumes,
London, 1799. [FTA #3220-3221].
"Diary of Samuel Merriman," in George Sheldon, A
History of Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts, E.A. Hall, 1895, vol. I, pp.
661-665. Reference copy of Merriman in FTA research files.
James Montrésor, "Journals of Colonel James Montrésor,"
Collections of the New-York Historical Society for 1881, vol. XIV (1882),
pp. 39-65. [FTA #4541]. Montrésor was a Royal Engineer, and Engineer-in-Chief
in America. Not on the expedition northward in 1758, but centrally involved in
the planning for it.
Captain Alexander Monypenny, Orderly Books, 23 March
1758-September 1759. Monypenny served in the 55th Regiment of Foot. Mss. in Fort
Ticonderoga collections [25 March-5 May 1758, FTA #M-2156; 6 May-20 June 1759,
#M-2164; 20 June-14 July 1759, #M-2162; 15 July-3 August 1759, #M-2170; 4
August-5 September 1759, #M-2161]. Published in The Bulletin of the Fort
Ticonderoga Museum, 15 July 1759-3 August 1759, vol. II no. 6 (July 1932),
pp. 219-251. For acquisition of the Monypenny Orderly Books, see Fort
Ticonderoga Scrapbook, vol. III, p. 48 [April-May 1920].
Rev. John Ogilvie to David Johnson, 21 July 1759.
[FTA
#M-1920]. Gift of Miss Euphemia Johnson, donor of the lock of Lord Howe’s
hair. This letter deals with the death of Johnson’s brother and Gen. Prideaux
at Niagara.
Major Thomas Ord, Royal Artillery, Return of Ordnance and
Stores taken at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 10 August 1759. Published in The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. II no. 6 (July 1932), pp.
251-252.
Jesse Parsons, "A Journal of an Expedition Design’d
Against the French Possessions in Canada Kept By Jesse Parsons Philom."
[Manuscript in a private American collection; copy in FTA Research Files.]
Campaigns for 1758 and 1759. Parsons served as Clerk in Col. David Wooster’s
Connecticut regiments.
Luther Roby, ed., Reminiscences of the French War with
Robert Rogers’ Journal and a Memoir of General Stark, Concord, New
Hampshire, 1831; reprint edition, Freedom, N.H., Freedom Historical Society,
1988, pp. 73-93 (Rogers). [FTA #1990.50]
Robert Rogers, The Journals of Major Robert Rogers,
1765. Dublin, 1769. [FTA].
"Particulars of Major Robert Rogers’ Last Expedition
Against the Enemy," The Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 29 (May 1759),
pp. 203-204. [FTA #P-5097]. Reports on Rogers’ scout against Fort Carillon on
3-7 March 1759. Map [FTA: 59cpfe] accompanies article. See also Burt Garfield
Loescher, Genesis: Rogers’ Rangers, The First Green Berets, San Mateo,
California, 1969, pp. 37-40 and pp. 214-215. [FTA #3270]. This scout was
intended to provide Amherst a detailed map of Ticonderoga for the coming
campaign. Lt. Brehm of the Royal Americans prepared the map.
T.D. Seymour Bassett, ed., "A Ballad of Rogers’
Retreat, 1759," Vermont History, vol. 46 no. 1 (winter 1978), pp.
21-23. [FTA]. Ballad of Eben Wheeler’s demise during the retreat from St.
Francis.
Gary Zaboly, ed., "A Royal Artillery Officer with
Amherst: The Journal of Captain-Lieutenant Henry Skinner, May 1-July 28,
1759," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XV no. 5
(1993), pp. 362-387. Reprinted from "Proceedings of the Army under the
command of General Amherst, for the Year 1759, with a perspective view of Lake
George, and a Plan of Ticonderoga: Taken on the Spot," The Universal
Magazine, London, November 1759, pp. 265-269, and December 1759, pp.
284-288. [FTA #-864]. See also the "Perspective View of Lake George"
published in the November issue. [FTA map #-59perspl]. Map reprinted in The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. VI (January 1942), p. 84.
Journal reprinted earlier in Sigmund Samuels, The Seven Years’ War in
Canada, 1756-1763, Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1934. [FTA #3228].
Robert Webster, Diary, 13 May-23 November 1759. Manuscript is
FTA #M-3053. Published in The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum,
vol. II no. 4 (July 1931), pp. 120-153 and reprinted in vol. IX no. 5 (Summer
1954), pp. 306-342. Webster served in Col. Fitch’s 4th Connecticut Regiment.
[Commissary Wilson’s Orderly Book] Expedition of the
British and Provincial Army under Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Amherst, Against Ticonderoga
and Crown Point, 1759, J. Watts dePeyster, ed., Albany, Joel Munsell, 1857. [FTA #3345].
John Woods, "John Woods, His Book, June ye 11th
1759." Transcript (made c. 1940) in American Antiquarian Society; octavo
volumes "W." Current (12/96) whereabouts of original unknown. [Copy in
FTA Research Files.] A biography of Woods is in Charles Hudson, History of
the Town of Marlborough, Massachusetts, Boston, T.R. Marvin & Son, 1862,
p. 479.
Lemuel Wood, "Diaries Kept by Lemuel Wood of Boxford . .
.," Sidney Perley, ed., Essex Institute Historical Collections, XIX
(1882) pp. 61-74, 143-152, 183-192; XX (1883) pp. 156-160, 198-208, 289-296; XXI
(1884) pp. 63-68. [FTA]. Extract for 15 August 1759 describing Fort Ticonderoga
reprinted in The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. II no. 6
(July 1932), pp. 252-253. Reprinted in Russell P. Bellico, Chronicles of Lake
George: Journeys in War and Peace, Fleischmanns, Purple Mountain Press,
1995, pp. 121-145. [FTA]. Wood served in Col. Willard’s Massachusetts
Regiment.
Commission of Samuel Wood in the 2nd Company, 3rd Regiment,
Massachusetts provincials. 23 October 1759. Signed by Governor Pownall. [FTA
#M-2044].
Col. David Wooster, Orderly Book, 19 June--10 October 1759,
180 pp. Ms at Library of Congress; Peter Force Papers. Microfilm edition (Ac.
no. 17,137; reel 71); 1985 transcript is Ac. no. 19,061; reel no. 56).
Captain William Yarrington (1738-1811), Diary for 21
September 1759--24 November 1759. Typed transcript in New-York Historical
Society. Copy in FTA research files. Primarily service at Crown Point; notes
arrival of brig and sloop from Ticonderoga.
John M. Zoutet; Service in Captain Yates company, 23 November
1759. [FTA #M-2045].
Col. R.F.H. Wallace, ed., "Regimental Routine and Army
Administration in North America in 1759: Extracts from Company Order Books of
the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment," Journal of Army Historical Research,
vol. XXX no. 121 (Spring 1952), pp. 8-19. An edited transcription of the first
of four Company Order Books for the regiment covering periods in North America
from 1759-1761. This published extract covers 22 February 1759 (New York) to 7
July 1759 (Camp at Lake George). [Copy in FTA research files.]
Primary Sources: French
L.A. Bougainville, "Journal," Rapport des
Archives du Province de Québec, 1923-24. [FTA].
Abbé Charles Nicolas Gabriel, Le Maréchal de camp
Desandrouins, 1729-1792, Verdun, 1887.
Jean-Nicolas Desandrouins, "Mémoire de Canada," Rapport
des Archives du Province de Québec, 1924-1925. Written between 1758-1770.
[Desandrouins?], "Mémoire sur la défense du fort de
Carillon," 10 fevrier 1759, Lettres et Pièces Militaires, Québec,
1891, pp. 107- in Collection des Manuscrits du maréchal de Lévis [FTA
#3314]. Translation by Col. E.P. Hamilton, "Memoir on the Defense of the
Fort of Carillon," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol.
XIII no. 3 (1972), pp. 197-226. Analyzes response to attack by overwhelming
force, bombardment, or siege.
Bourlemaque to Chevalier de Lévis, 20 May, 28 May, 11 June
1759; in Manuscrits de Lévis: Lettres de Bourlamaque, Casgrain, ed., pp.
7-13.
Regimental Histories and Uniforms
Ren‚ Chartrand and Francis Back, "Canadian Militia,
1750-1760," Military Collector and Historian, vol. XXXVI no. 1
(Spring 1984), pp. 18-21. Plates #553 and 554. [FTA].
John Cuneo, "Factors Behind the Raising of the 80th Foot
in America," Military Collector and Historian, vol. XI no. 4, pp.
98-103. [FTA].
Gerry Embleton and Philip Haythornthwaite, "The British
Infantry of the Seven Years’ War," Military Illustrator, nos. 36,
37, 38. Detailed analysis of uniforms and accoutrements. [photocopy in FTA
research files
Andrew Gallup and Donald E. Shaffer, La Marine: The French
Colonial Soldier in Canada, 1745-1761, Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books,
1992. [FTA].
Eric I. Manders, Brian Leigh Dunnigan, John R. Elting,
"80th Regiment of Foot, 1757-1764," Military Collector and
Historian, vol. XXXIX no. 4 (winter 1987), pp. 172-173. Uniform Plate # 613. [FTA].
Robin May and G.A. Embleton, Wolfe’s Army (Osprey
Men-at-Arms Series #48), London, Osprey, 1974. [FTA].
Regimental Historical Records Committee, The Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers: Being a History of the Regiment from December 1688 to
July 1914, London, Constable & Company Ltd., 1934. [FTA #661].
Edward A. Wilson, et al., "The 80th Regiment of
Light Armed Foot, 1757-1764," MUIA Plate #230, 1963.
Gary Zaboly, "Descriptions of Military Uniforms and
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Graphics
Captain Thomas Davies (c. 1737-1812), "A representation
of the encampment at Lake George in North America under the command of Sir
Jeffery Amherst, 1759" now called "View of the Lines at Lake George,
1759"; oil on canvas, "T.D. Pinxit 1774" [lower left-hand
corner]. [FTA # ]
Davies, "A View of the Lines and Fort of Ticonderoga
with the Encampment Commanded by His Excellency Major General Amherst in the
Year 1759 / Drawn on the Spot by Thos. Davies Capt. Lieut.
of the Royal Artillery," 1759, New-York Historical Society, 1954.1. Copy in
FTA research files.
Davies, "A South West View of the Lines and Fort of
Tyconderoga," "Thomas Davies fecit 1760" (lower left), National
Archives of Canada, C-580. Copy in FTA research files.
"A Map of the Country between CROWN POINT and FORT
EDWARD." Map opposite p. 204 accompanies "Particulars of Major Robert
Rogers’ Last Expedition Against the Enemy," The Gentleman’s Magazine,
London, vol. 29 (May 1759) pp. 203-204. [FTA #P-5097]. Reports on Rogers’
scout against Fort Carillon on 3-7 March 1759.
"A Survey of the Fort at Tienderoga and its Environs,
with the French Lines and part of Lake Champlain." British Library; catalog
no.: Manuscripts Add. MS 57712.10.
Bruce M. Moseley, "The Amherst Punch Bowl," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XV no. 5 (1993), pp. 392-401.
British Unit Roster
British Regulars
1st Foot (Royal Regiment)
17th Foot (late Forbes’)
27th Foot (Inniskilling)
42nd Foot (Royal Highland)
55th Foot (Prideaux’s)
77th Foot (Montgomery’s Highlanders)
80th Foot (Gage’s Light Infantry)
Major Allan Campbell’s Grenadiers
4th and 17th Battalions Royal Artillery
Major Robert Rogers’ Rangers
British Provincials
Colonel Timothy Ruggles’ Massachusetts
Regiment
Colonel Abijah Willard’s Massachusetts Regiment
Colonel John Bradstreet’s Batteaumen
Colonel Zacheus Lovewell’s New Hampshire Regiment
Colonel Peter Schuyler’s Jersey Blues
Colonel Henry Babcock’s Rhode Island Regiment
Colonel Phineas Lyman’s 1st Connecticut Regiment
Colonel Nathaniel Whiting’s 2nd Connecticut Regiment
Colonel David Wooster’s 3rd Connecticut Regiment
Colonel Eleazer Fitch’s 4th Connecticut Regiment
