Battle of Carillon
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The Battle of Carillon, also known as the 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga, was fought on July 8, 1758, during the French and Indian War. It was fought near Fort Carillon on the shore of Lake Champlain in t
The Victory of Montcalm's Troops at Carillon by Henry Alexander Ogden. Montcalm (centre) and his troops celebrate their victory.
William Pitt directed the British war effort
Fort Ticonderoga, as seen from Lake Champlain
An early 20th-century illustration from a Quebec school text depicting Montcalm inspiring the defenders of Fort Carillon.
General James Abercrombie was a British Army officer and Whig politician who represented Banffshire in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1734 to 1754. He served as Commander-in-Chief, North A
Battle of Carillon
…of about 4,000 men under General Marquis de Montcalm and the Chevalier de Lévis defeated a numerically superior force of British troops under General James Abercrombie, which frontally assaulted an entrenched French position without using field artillery, a lack that left the British and their allies vulnerable and…
Portrait by Allan Ramsay, c. 1759