When Vaudreuil, in 1725, not long before his death (April 10) suggested to the ministry in Paris that Niagara should be fortified, since, with the Iroquois backing the English, he did not find himself in a position openly to attack them, the minister replied that the governor could at least craze the Indians by dosing them with brandy. Shortly afterwards the commission of his successor, Beauharnois, impressed on that governor the necessity of always having in view the forcible expulsion of the Oswego garrison. In 1727 the French governor tried the effect of a summons of the English post, with an expressed intention “to proceed against it, as may seem good to him,” in case of refusal; but it was mere gasconade, and the minister at home cautioned the governor to let things remain as they were.
BRITISH INFANTRY SOLDIER (1725).
Fac-simile of a cut in Grant’s British Battles, i. p. 564.
Note To Annexed Map.—In the N. Y. Col. Docs., ix. 1021, is a fac-simile of a map in the Archives of the Marine and Colonies, called Carte du lac Champlain avec les rivières depuis le fort de Chambly jusques à Orangeville [Albany] de la Nouvelle Angleterre, dressé sur divers mémoires. It is held to have been made about 1731. There is in the Doc. Hist. N. Y., vol. i. p. 557, a Carte du lac Champlain depuis le fort Chambly jusqu’au fort St. Frederic, levée par le Sr. Anger, arpenteur du Roy en 1732, fait à Quebec le 10 Oct., 1748,—Signé de Lery.
Nicolas Bellin made his Carte de la rivière de Richelieu et du lac Champlain in 1744, and it appeared in Charlevoix’s Nouvelle France, i. 144, reproduced in Shea’s ed., ii. 15. There is also a map of Lake Champlain in Bellin’s Petit Atlas Maritime, 1764.
There were surveys made of Lake Champlain, in 1762, by William Brassier, and of Lake George by Captain Jackson, in 1756. These were published by order of Amherst in 1762, and reproduced in 1776. (Cf. American Atlas, 1776.) The original drawings are noted in the Catal. of the King’s Maps (Brit. Mus.), i. 223. The Brassier map is also given in Dr. Hough’s edition of Rogers’s Journals. The same British Museum Catalogue (i. 489) gives a drawn Map of New Hampshire (1756), which shows the route from Albany by lakes George and Champlain to Quebec. Cf. the Map of New Hampshire, by Col. Joseph Blanchard and Rev. Samuel Langdon, engraved by Jefferys, and dated 21 Oct., 1761, which shows the road to Ticonderoga in 1759.
FROM POPPLE’S BRITISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA, 1732.