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France sends two battalions to Canada, with provisions, and 1,300,000 livres, in specie, which has the effect of depreciating the paper currency by 25 per cent.
March - A Canadian force of 300 captures Fort Bull, between Schenectady and Oswego, and puts the garrison to the sword.
May - Montcalm reaches Quebec with 1,400 soldiers.
The Canadians, suffering from smallpox and famine, are burthened with the support of their Indian allies.
Saturday August 14 - Though opposed to attacking any British fort, Montcalm, a the head of 3,100 regulars, Canadians and Indians, captures Fort Oswego, - a success attributable, mainly, to his intercepting a message to General Webb, commanding 2,000 men in the vicinity. Colonel Mercer is killed. The garrison (1,780) and about 100 women and children are taken prisoners.
The Marquis de Montcalm assumes a troubled command of French troops in North America. (The Seven Years' War between Britain and France begins in Europe).

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