Bradstreet then animating his Men, entered the swamp, and forced the

lasted above an hour

the

River, where many of them were slain.

of

it

into

Another Party was at

Enemy out

that Time, attempting to ford the River when Capt. Bradstreet came up with them, and after he fell

in with them, the whole Body was routed. Not long after this last Action, a Company of Grenadiers belonging to General Shirley's Regiment,

which was upon the March from Onondaga to Oswego, joined our Battoemen and the next Morning

200 Men came to them from the Garrison. Capt. Bradstreet now proposed, to have gone in quest of

the main Body of the French, but was prevented by excessive Rains. We lost in these Actions about 20 Men, and 24 were wounded. What the loss of the Enemy was

All conjecture that above 100 were killed.

is uncertain. This we know, that above 80 Firelocks

were brought to Schenectady Seventy-four Men more were found by a Party, that afterwards went

out from Oswego to patrole the Woods and many doubtless were lost in the River. The Enemy

fled in the utmost Disorder

for some Traders were passing by the Place of Action a few Days after

were hailed from the Shore by 20 Frenchmen, who being without Provisions and unable to find their

Camp, were stroling about the Woods, upon the Banks of the River in great Distress, and begged to

be taken up and carried to Oswego. The Traders being in Number but about Half a Dozen, were

fearful of taking more than one of them in, and him they delivered to the Garrison.

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