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1757

   "Under the administration of the celebrated William Pitt the war in America was prosecuted with vigour though at first with little means on the side of the English, Fort William Henry, on Lake George, is reduced by the French.  The troops were permitted to march out with the honours of war, but were immediately afterwards attacked by the savages

& many of them inhumanely butchered." Leng's (. 93