The French and Indian War - Battle of Lake George

American Political History · Mar 1, 2023 · 18m

In 1755 the most powerful native confederacy on the continent was pulled into a war that was not its own — and discovered that the balance it had worked for a hundred years was beginning to fail. This is the Battle of Lake George, told from inside the bind it closed on the Six Nations. The old Mohawk sachem Hendrick, famous enough to have crossed the ocean and stood in the court of the King of England, rode out for the British against a French army that had Mohawks of its own, after warning that the column sent to meet it was “too many to die, too few to fight.” On a road above a lake the…