However with this Reinforcement it was determined to pursue the Enemy to their Camp about 12 Miles off, if they could, by the next Morning, have 200 Men more from the Garrison of Oswego, and accordingly an Express

was dispatched to Col. Mercer for that Purpose, who sent the 200 Men requested but unluckily a Storm of Rain came on so hard as to render it impossible to keep the Men's Ammunition dry. It continued raining till next day, and then it was judged too late to attempt the pursuit. ;

A further Account of the Action on the 3d of July last. [

From the same, Aug. 2, 1756. ]

You have doubtless before this Time, had the agreeable News of the Defeat of the French by the Capt. Bradstreet's Conduct was much to his honour, and will be very advantageous to the English operations in the present Campaign. His success against the Enemy

Battoemen on the Onondaga River.

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shews us the Wisdom, of taking large numbers of Battoemen into the service [Vol. I.]

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PAPERS RELATING TO OSWEGO.

client,

we should have been unable to keep the Passage open to Oswego

sions

stores, &c. had

support

it,

and unless our Provi-

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been sent to that Garrison, in large Squadrons of Battoes, all other attempts to been ineifectual for notwithstanding our Interest in the Six Nations, we have would ;

have undoubted Accounts, that 1200 of the Enemy have lain undiscovered in their Country, not far from Oswego ever since May last. When Capt. Bradstreet left Oswego, he gave strict Orders, that the several Divisions of the Batt}emen, should keep close together. But such an irregular Body, could not be easily kept to good order, and therefore they were at some Distance from each other, when the Enemy attacked them.