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TAPERS RELATING TO OSWEGO.

whole Party. --Nor did he -- The whole Number he had with him, was only Twelve. -- Nine could not be brought the State of our Interest with them engage. -- One went

for securing his Rear, and preventing the Enemy from Surrounding his

receive any Help from our Indians.

of these (such is

to

!)

immediately over to the French, and informed them of our Numbers & Disposition.

An Oneida

Indian fought bravely thro' the whole Dispute but another Indian escaped to the Onondaga Castle,

and spread a Eeport that Capt. Bradstreet was killed, & all his Battoemen defeated.

-- hope we

shall

in the ensuing Campaign, fully avenge the Loss we sustained on the Banks of Monaungahela.

DESCRIPTION OF OSWEGO--1756. [

Paris Doc. XII. ]

Fort Ontario is situate at the right of the River in the middle of a very high plateau.

of a square of 30 toises

[

It consists

180 feet] a side, the faces of which, broken in the centre, are flanked by a It is constructed of pickets

redan placed at the point of the break.

on both sides, very well joined the one to the other and

18 inches in diameter, smooth

@ 9 feet from the ground.

The The excavated earth had been thrown up en glacis on the counterscap with a very steep slope over the berm [covered way]. Loop holes and embrasures are formed in the pickets on a level with the earth thrown up on the berm and a scaffolding of carpenter's work extends all around so as to fire from above. It has eight guns and 4 mortars rising 8