The Advance by Land.

For the new year of 1759 William Pitt envisioned a three-pronged attack on French Canada: one force would take Fort Niagara and move down the St. Lawrence River to menace Montreal; another force would capture Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point and advance up the Champlain valley on Montreal and Quebec; and an amphibious force would attack Quebec up the St. Lawrence River. The first two parts were complete by the end of July. Advancing up the Mohawk River valley, Brig. John Prideaux recaptured Oswego and sailed down Lake Ontario to besiege Fort Niagara. Before it capitulated on 25 July, Prideaux was killed in action. On the next day Gen. Jeffrey Amherst led an army of more than ten thousand in the capture of the weakened garrison of Fort Ticonderoga. The following week he took Crown Point, but he advanced...