THE FORTS AT OSWEGO.
After a plan in the contemporary Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1763, as published in 1838 by the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec, and (réimpression) 1873, p. 77. It is also reproduced in Dr. Hough’s transl. of Pouchot, i. 65, and in Doc. Hist. of N. York, i. 482.
There was a contemporary English draft of the forts “Ontario and Oswego,” published in the Gentleman’s Mag., 1757, which is reproduced in Dr. Hough’s Pouchot, i. 64, and in the Doc. Hist. N. York, i. 447, 483, where will be found various papers relating to the first settlement and capture of Oswego, 1727-1756.
The Catal. of the King’s Maps (Brit. Mus.), ii. 118, shows a plan made in 1756 for Gov. Pownall, and others of dates 1759, 1760, 1762, 1763, with a view in 1761.
In the New York Col. Docs., ix. p. 996, is what is called a plan of the mouth of the Chouaguen, showing the English redoubt,—an outline sketch found by Brodhead in the Archives de la Marine at Paris. Martin, De Montcalm en Canada, p. 35, gives a plan, “D’après un MS. du dépôt des Colonies” in Paris.
Parkman speaks (Montcalm and Wolfe, i. 416) of the published plans and drawings of Oswego at this time as very inexact. There is a French description of the country between Oswego and Albany, 1757, in Doc. Hist. N. Y., vol. i.; cf. also N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 674. Another map showing the communication between Albany and Oswego is given in Mante’s Hist. of the Late War, London, 1772, p. 60.
A view of Oswego, looking towards the lake between the high banks, appeared in the London Magazine (1760), p. 232. It has been reproduced on different scales in Smith’s Hist. of N. York, 4o, Lond. 1767; Doc. Hist. New York, i. 495; Hough’s transl. of Pouchot, i. 68, Gay’s Pop. Hist. U. S., iii. 49; Clark’s Onondaga, P. 353; The Century, xxviii. 240.
FORT EDWARD.