Lake George Colonial Wars Walking Tour Stop 10: Battle of Lake George - September 8, 1755
In 1903 the Society of Colonial Wars erected this monument to commemorate the victory of the Colonial forces under General William Johnson, and their Mohawk allies under Chief Hendrick, over the French regulars commanded by Baron Dieskau along with their Canadian and Indian allies.
Defeat would have opened the road to Albany to the French. Confidence inspired by this victory was of inestimable value to the American Army in the War of the Revolution.
This 13-foot high monument is located in Lake George Battlefield Park, a facility operated by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. The monument reportedly stands near where provincial General William Johnson's command tent was located.
With the statue, you can see King Hendrick showing Johnson that he should not divide his troops before the Battle of Lake George. Henrick is giving Johnson arrows bunched together to signify strength in numbers.
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This "Colonial Wars" guide that Mannix Marketing has adapted for lakegeorge.com, with the Alliance's OK, is attributed to Bateaux Below, Inc.
TOUR WRITTEN BY: Dr. Russell P. Bellico, Bob Benway, Tim Cordell, John Farrell, Scott Padeni and Joseph W. Zarzynski
ART BY: Tim Cordell
PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Bob Benway
©1996, 2022 Bateaux Below, Inc. Reprinted 2022 with the permission of Bateaux Below, Inc. Historical updates provided by Dr. Russell P. Bellico and Dr. Lyn Karig Hohmann The reproduction of this brochure has been made possible by an Occupancy Tax Grant award from the Town of Lake George.
Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance PO Box 26, Lake George, NY 12845 www.lakegeorgebattlefield.org
SUGGESTED READING LIST:
Bellico, Russell P. - Chronicles of Lake George - Journeys in War and Peace. Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, NY, 1995.
Bellico, Russell P. - Sails and Steam in the Mountains – A Maritime and Military History of Lake George and Lake Champlain. Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, NY, 2001.
Bellico, Russell P. - Empires in the Mountains - French and Indian War Campaigns and Forts in the Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Hudson River Corridor. Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, NY 2010.
Griffith IV, William R. - The Battle of Lake George - England’s First Triumph in the French and Indian War. History Press, Charleston, South Carolina, 2016
Steele, Ian K. - Betrayals – Fort William Henry & The “Massacre.” Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1990.
Zarzynski, Joseph W. - Ghost Fleet Awakened - Lake George’s Sunken Bateaux of 1758. State University of New York, Albany, NY, 2019.
