Battle for Fort Carillon

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Battle for Fort Carillon
Victory of Montcalm in the Battle of Fort Carillon
Victory of Montcalm in the Battle of Fort Carillon
date July 8, 1758
place Fort Carillon
output French victory
Parties to the conflict

France Kingdom 1792France France

Great Britain kingdomKingdom of Great Britain Great Britain

Commander

France Kingdom 1792France Louis de Montcalm

Great Britain kingdomKingdom of Great Britain James Abercrombie

Troop strength
4,000 6,350 regular soldiers, 9,000 colonists
losses

unknown

over 2000

Seven Years War (1756–1763)

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:

Third Carnatic War

Cuddalore - Negapatam - Pondicherry - Wandiwash - Manila

The Battle of Fort Carillon took place on July 8, 1758 as part of the French and Indian War and ended in a French victory.

prehistory

In 1758 the English began a campaign against Canada consisting of three separate advances. James Wolfe marched to Québec , Jeffrey Amherst to Louisburg on Cape Breton Island and James Abercrombie to Fort Carillon . Abercrombie rallied a large army of 6,350 regular soldiers and 9,000 colonists and attacked the French at Fort Carillon.

battle

The British outnumbered the French by far, and the 4,000 French only had provisions for a week. Instead of starving the marquis, Abercrombie attacked the fort. The British soldiers, marching in formation without any artillery preparation, were hindered by barricades made of felled trees and shot down in rows by the defenders, who were well covered by the fortifications. Although small parts of the 42nd Highlands Regiment (" Black Watch ") managed to penetrate the fort with heavy losses, the soldiers were killed on the site.

consequences

The Scottish regiment lost half of its men and two-thirds of its officers in this battle. In total, the British lost around 2,000 men in this battle. Carillon was far less one-sided than has often been interpreted in retrospect, largely due to the horrific British losses. The battle itself was one of the hardest and most costly of the war. A disorderly, panicked retreat followed, leaving behind weapons, luggage and wounded. Because of this defeat, Fort Carillon was nicknamed " Gibraltar of the West". This defeat delayed further action to Canada by the British, but did not change anything about the French defeat at Quebec in 1759 . The battle of Carillon or Ticonderoga is now considered a classic example of incompetent leadership.

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