Battle of La Belle Famille
| date | July 24, 1759 |
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| place | about 3 kilometers south of Fort Niagara |
| output | British victory |
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| Troop strength | |
| 800 regulars and militia as well as 500 Indians | 350 regulars, 100 militiamen from the New York militia and 450 Iroquois |
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334 dead |
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European theater of war:
Pirna * - Lobositz * - Prague * - Kolin * - Hastenbeck ** - Groß-Jägersdorf * - Moys * - Hastenbeck * - Roßbach * - Breslau * - Leuthen * - Rheinberg ** - Krefeld ** - Domstadtl * - Olomouc * - More ** - Zorndorf * - Saint-Cast - Hochkirch * - Bergen ** - Kay * - Minden ** - Kunersdorf * - Lagos *** - Hoyerswerda * - Bay of Quiberon *** - Maxen * - Koßdorf * - Landeshut * - Emsdorf ** - Warburg ** - Liegnitz * - Berlin * - Kampen Monastery ** - Torgau * - Döbeln * - Vellinghausen ** - Ölper ** - Burkersdorf * - Reichenbach * - Freiberg *
(* Third Silesian War , ** western theater of war - Great Britain / Kur-Hanover and other allies against France , *** naval battle )
American theater:
Seven Years War in North America
Monongahela - Carillon - La Belle Famille - Québec - Beauport - Abraham Plain - Sainte-Foy - Restigouche
Asian theater:
Cuddalore - Negapatam - Pondicherry - Wandiwash - Manila
The Battle of La Belle Famille on July 24th, 1759 was one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War fought from 1754 to 1763 .
Starting position
In the summer of 1759, British General Jeffrey Amherst advanced north along Lake George and Lake Champlain and took Ticonderoga (June 25, 1759) and Fort Crown Point . A division of his army under Brigadier John Prideaux besieged the strategically important Fort Niagara at the mouth of the Niagara in Lake Ontario . To support the fort, a relief army under Captain François de Lignery was sent by the French .
course
The French troops under de Lignery consisted of about 800 French regulars and militiamen and about 500 Indians. The British troops were led by Lt. Colonel Eyre Massey and headed by Chief Sayenqueraghta . They numbered about 350 soldiers, 100 New York militia members and 450 Iroquois warriors .
In anticipation of the French relief army, the British troops had built defenses along the road about three kilometers from the fort. In the battles that followed, the French troops were repulsed and suffered heavy losses (at least 334 dead, while 96 men were captured). After the attempt at relief had failed due to this defeat, the fort's garrisons were forced to surrender the following day.
See also: Timeline of the Indian Wars
literature
- Brian Leigh Dunnugan: Victories - 1759. The Campaign against Niagara. Old Fort Niagara Association, Youngstown NY 1996, ISBN 0-941967-15-8 .
