Note 1157 — Chapter VIII

Abercrombie’s engineer surveyed the French works from an opposite hill, and pronounced it practicable to carry them by assault. Stark, with a better knowledge of such works, demurred; but his opinions had no weight. A view of the field of Abercrombie’s defeat is given in Gay, Pop. Hist. U. S., iii. 299. M. D’Hagues sent to the Marshal de Belle Isle on account of the situation of Fort Carillon [Ticonderoga] and its approaches, dated at the fort, May 1, 1758, which is printed (in translation) in N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 707; and in the same, p. 720, is another description by M. de Pont le Roy, French engineer-in-chief.