Monro Complained of, as a breach of the Articles of Capitulation
but to no effect, the french officers however told us that if
we would give up the baggage of the officers and men, to the
Indians, they thought it would make them easy, which at last
Col'o. Monro Consented to but this was no sooner done, then
they began to take the Officers Hatts, Swords, guns & Cloaths,
stripping them all to their Shirts, and on some officers, left no
shirt at all, while this was doing they killed and scalp'd all the
sick and wounded before our faces and then took out from our
troops, all the Indians and negroes, and Carried them off, one of
the former they burnt alive afterwards."
"At last with great difficulty the troops gott from the Retrenchment,
but they were no sooner out, then the savages fell upon the
rear, killing & scalping, which Occasioned an order for a halt,
which at last was done in great Confusion but as soon as those
in the front knew what was doing in the rear they again pressed
forward, and thus the Confusion continued & encreased till we
came to the Advanc'd guard of the French, the savages still carrying
away Officers, privates, Women and Children, some of which
latter they kill'd & scalpt in the road. This horrid scene of blood
and slaughter obliged our officers to apply to the Officers of the
French Guard for protection, which they refus'd & told them they
must take to the woods and shift for themselves which many did,
and in all probability many perish't in the woods, many got into
Fort Edward that day and others daily Continued coming in, but
vastly fatigued with their former hardships added to this last,
which threw several of them into Deliriums.
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