Turn 0011 1758 Campaign

The French batteries fired very accurately killing  5 British soldiers during the British turn. The French 6pd battery on NW bastion fired on the Rangers and had rare miss overshooting the Rangers the bombardiers maybe showing some stress as British are getting closer and closer; The SW bastion fired its 6pd cannon and was able hit British Provincial Company exploding a soldier to pieces. The swivel 2pd got lucky with shot and killed a British provincial hitting him in the back

The French batteries across the river continued to perform excellent the 4^th Battery 6pd & 9pd cannon fired (southern most battery) fired on British Grenadiers killing  2 Grenadiers. The 3rd Battery 6pd cannon also fired on British Regular Company killing a private he was in center of his company, The 3rd Battery 9pd cannon fired on a company of Marines which scored a kill. The 2^nd  Battery 6pd fired on a British Regular company killing  1 Regular. The 1^st  Battery 6pd fired on Company Rangers and missed 12 British KIA

ps.. I forgot continue my retreat and destruction of the bridge whoops!

Colonel John Bradstreet Article

Col. John Bradstreet

                               

In my opinion one of the better British officers of The French and Indian war.
     
Here are some links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bradstreet

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bradstreet_john_4E.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=qmMAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA714&     dq=John+Bradstreet+1756+battle+oswego&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk3dSb08LNAhWD7B4KHSmaBAMQ6AEISDAH#v=onepage&q=John%20Bradstreet%201756%20battle%20oswego&f=false

 The above book talks about Bradstreet's victory over 700 French and Indians led by the great French Officer Coulon de Villiers* on Battle Island, July 3rd 1756.

* Coulon de Villiers beat Washington's Forces at Fort Necessity 1754)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon#Aftermath
 In 1758 Lt. Col Bradstreet led his Batteaumen in the advance guard of Gen. Abercrombie disastrous attack on Fort Carillon. Nevertheless, He fought bravely fighting from the French Abatis with Rogers Rangers and Gage's light infantry. Bradstreet didn't retreat until the imbecile Abercrombie ordered an end to the slaughter of his army. They retreated covered by the Advance Guard of Bradstreet Batteaumen , Rogers Rangers, Gage's Lt Infantry** The next morning Lt Col. Bradsteet's Batteaumen rowed Abbercrombie's mangled army back down to the British camp at the southern end of Lake George.

**it was really Maj. Gladwin of Pontiac rebellion fame who led Gage's Lt. Inf. Gage, always the coward,was hiding in the rear of the army somewhere.

http://archive.org/stream/cihm_41618#page/n5/mode/2up
While Abercrombie's defeated army sat at the southern end of Lake George in a kind of shock or stasis. Lt. Col. Bradstreet again brought up his plans to attack the lightly defended Fort Frontenac. A plan in which The Late Lord Viscount Howe, and other British planners greatly approved of. General Abercrombie finally agreed to Lt. Col. Bradstreet Plan to attack Fort Frontenac and He was given command of 3000 Provincials, Regulars, and Indians to attack Fort Frontenac. Lt. Col. Bradstreet easily took Fort Frontenac after a short two day siege, and on August 28th,1758 the Fort surrendered.  This Victory virtually cut Canada in half. This caused major supply problems in all the French posts in the Ohio Valley and severally impacted Indian trade goods going west to Anishinaabe Indians of the Great Lakes. Which were a major source of Indian Warriors for the French. Also the loss of Fort Frontenac directly led to the French abandoning of Fort Duquesne to General Forbes in the fall of 1758.

After winning the siege of fort Frontenac General Amherst Appointed Lt Col Bradstreet deputy quartermaster general in Albany subsequently Bradstreet didn't lead troops on the battlefield until 1764 when he marched 1400 troops to Detroit in response to the outbreak of Pontiac's rebellion.