France sends two battalions to Canada, with provisions, and 1,300,000 livres, in specie, which has the effect of depreciating the paper currency by 25 per cent.
March - A Canadien force of 300 captures Fort Bull, between Schenectady and Oswego, and puts the garrison to the sword.
May - Montcalm reaches Quebec with 1,400 soldiers.
The Canadiens, suffering from smallpox and famine, are burthened with the support of their Indian allies.
Saturday August 14 - Though opposed to attacking any British fort, Montcalm, at the head of 3,100 regulars, Canadiens and Indians, captures Fort Oswego, - a success attributable, mainly, to his intercepting a message to General Webb, commanding 2,000 men in the vicinity. Colonel Mercer is killed. The garrison (1,780) and about 100 women and children are taken prisoners.
The Marquis de Montcalm assumes a troubled command of French troops in North America. (The Seven Years' War between Britain and France begins in Europe).
^"At a meeting of the six nations" (February 23, 1756), An Account of Conferences held, and Treaties made, Between Major-general Sir William Johnson [and] Indian Nations in North America, pgs. 41-3. Accessed 20 January 2022 https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/342324/an-account-of-conferences-held-and-treaties-made-between-m (turn to PDF frame 53; see also (at frame 58) Six Nations' assertion of importance of trade to alliance with British, even for remotest nations)
^John Entick et al., "The siege of Oswego resolved upon"The General History of the Late War; Vol. I (1763), pgs. 473-89. (See Peter Williamson's narrative of being wounded and falling prisoner at Oswego, and engineer Patrick Mackellar's timeline of his experience up to surrender; also see one author who blames William Shirley for British setbacks in New York, and another who supports him) Accessed 17 January 2022
^"In the succeeding year" An Impartial Account of Lieut. Col. Bradstreet's Expedition to Fort Frontenac (1759), pg. 13. Accessed 18 January 2022
^"12. I have in my Letter" (October 2, 1756), Military Affairs in North America; 1748-1765 (1936), pgs. 235-6. (See Cumberland replies that expedition planned for Louisbourg should lead to "the main Point") Accessed 22 January 2022
^"However in the Beginning of the Year 1756" An Answer to[...]Observations on[...]the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, pg. 40. Accessed 19 January 2022
^"I have therefore" An Account of the Present State of Nova-Scotia (1756), pgs. 2, 6-9. Accessed 17 January 2022
^"At present these savage nations" "Letter from Mons. de la Varenne[....]" (Louisbourg, May 8, 1756), An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, &c. (1758), pgs. 84-90. Accessed 19 January 2022
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