A Battle Fought on Snow Shoes
| Rogers’ Rock | Lake George |
| March 13, 1758 | |
| A Battle Fought | |
| on Snow Shoes | |
By MARY COCHRANE ROGERS | |
| Great-Great-Granddaughter of | |
| Major Robert Rogers
| |
| PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR | |
| DERRY. N. H., 1917 | |
Commander in Chief of the Indians in the Back Settlements ofAmerica.
Publishd as the Act directs Oct. 3 1776 by The Hart.
MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS—1731-1795
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
MARY COCHRANE ROGERS
| Rogers’ Rock | Lake George |
| March 13, 1758
| |
| A Battle Fought | |
| on Snow Shoes | |
By MARY COCHRANE ROGERS | |
| Great-Great-Granddaughter of | |
| Major Robert Rogers
| |
Lake George was frozen and the snow four feet deep in the woods, when on March 10, 1758,Colonel Haviland, commanding at Fort Edward, sent Major Rogers withone hundred and eighty men to reconnoitre the French position at Carillon, or Ticonderoga.
Rogers and his Rangers marched from Fort Edward in snow shoes to the half-way brook, in the roadleading to Lake George, and there encamped the first night.
On the 11th they proceeded as far as the First Narrows on Lake George and encamped that eveningon the east side of the lake.
At sunrise of the 12th they marched from their encampment. When they had gone some three miles,the Major saw a dog running across the lake. Thinking that the Indians might be lying in ambush,he sent a detachment to reconnoitre the island. None, however,could be seen.[2]To prevent the enemy from discovering his force, Rogers halted at Sabbath-Day Point,on the west side of the lake. From the hills he looked northward over the lake with his perspective glass,but could see no signs of French or Indians. As soon as it was dark the party advanced down the lake.Lieutenant Phillips and fifteen men, laying aside their snow shoes and putting on skates,glided down the lake, as an advanced guard.