Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Oswego (Seven Years' War).

This place, held by a garrison of 1,400 Provincial troops, under Colonel Mercer, was besieged by the French, under Montcalm, August 11, 1756. After a bombardment of 3 days, in the course of which Mercer was killed, the place surrendered. The losses on both sides were very small.