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The 1757 Battle on Snowshoes (French: Bataille en raquettes) was a skirmish fought between Rogers' Rangers and Canadien and Indian troops during the French and Indian War on January 21, 1757. The battle was given this name because the British combatants wore snowshoes. On January 21, 1757, Captain Robert Rogers and a band of his rangers were on ...
On January 21, 1757, during the First Battle on Snowshoes, Rogers led 74 rangers to ambush the French, capturing seven prisoners near Fort Carillon at the south end of Lake Champlain. They then were attacked by about 100 French and Canadien (French Canadian) militia and their Ottawa allies from the Ohio Country. Rogers' men suffered casualties ...
The battle took place near Lake George, now in northern New York, but then in the frontier area between the British province of New York and the French province of Canada. The battle was given its name because the British combatants were wearing snowshoes. Rogers led a band of about 180 rangers and regulars out to scout French positions.
On 21 January 1757 at the First Battle of the Snowshoes, Rogers' Rangers ambushed and captured seven Canadians near Fort Carillon but then encountered a hundred French and Canadian militia and Ottawa Indians from the Ohio Country. Roger's forces retreated after taking casualties of 14 killed, nine wounded, and six missing or captured; the ...
Battle of Sabbath Day Point; Battle of Sainte-Foy; Sainte-Thérèse Raid; Battle of Sideling Hill; Battle of Signal Hill; Battle on Snowshoes (1757) Battle on Snowshoes; St. Francis Raid; St. John River campaign
This is a list of conflicts in North America.This list includes all present-day countries starting northward first from Northern America (Canada, Greenland, and the United States of America), southward to Middle America (Aridoamerica, Oasisamerica, and Mesoamerica in Mexico; and Central America over Panama, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua), and eastward to ...
Battle on Snowshoes (1757) Battle on Snowshoes (1758) List of French forts in North America; Duncan Campbell (died 1758), Scottish officer of the British Army, subject of a legend about the fort; Reit, Seymour. Guns for General Washington: A Story of the American Revolution. Clarion Books, 2001.
1757 Battle of Sabbath Day Point, Battle of Fort William Henry, including subsequent "massacre" Bloody Springs massacre, Battle on Snowshoes, ...