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Updated: June 13, 2025
Washington's reputation steadily increased; Amherst, Wolfe and Lyman achieved distinction on the English side, and Montcalm and Dieskau on the French.
"On Wednesday, the 6th, about two in the afternoon, the Old Dessauer has his whole Army drawn out there, with green sprigs in their hats, at Dieskau, close upon the Saxon Frontier; and, after swashing and manoeuvring about in the highest military style of art, ranks them all in line, or two suitable lines, 30,000 of them; and then, with clangorous outburst of trumpet, kettle-drum and all manner of field-music, fires off his united artillery a first time; almost shaking the very hills by such a thunderous peal, in the still afternoon.
The King gives me twenty-five thousand francs a year, as he did to M. Dieskau, besides twelve thousand for my equipment, which will cost me above a thousand crowns more; but I cannot stop for that. I embrace my dearest and all the family." A few days later his son joined him. "He is as thin and delicate as ever, but grows prodigiously tall."
In reward for the affair at Lake George, in which our Dieskau was unfortunate, he has been made a baronet by the British king." "I am glad." "And doubtless Sir William is also. You know him well, I understand, and he was still at the lake when you left on the journey that led to your capture." Robert was silent. "I have not asked you to answer," continued Montcalm, "but I assume that it is so.
That wild region had seen many a battle, but never before had it been invaded by armies so great as those of Dieskau and Johnson, which were about to meet in deadly combat. His apprehensions grew. The absence of sounds save those made by themselves, the lack of hostile presence, not even a single warrior or Frenchman being visible, filled him with foreboding.
When baron Dieskau set out from Ticonderoga, his design was only to surprise and cut off the intrenched camp, now called Fort Edward, at the Carrying-place, where there were but four or five hundred men.
Duquesne, recalled from his post, had resigned the government to the Marquis de Vaudreuil, who had at his disposal the battalions of regulars that had sailed in the spring from Brest under Baron Dieskau.
"Now tell me, is it not in rule, to call over the names of the living, and to bury the dead, after every bloody battle?" "Some did and other some didn't. When Sir William push'd the German, Dieskau, thro' the defiles at the foot of the Hori " "Your Sir William was a drone to Sir Paul, and knew nothing of regularity.
Dieskau bravely led the French regulars, nearly all of whom were killed; he was four times wounded; the Canadians were intimidated.
Montreuil took his place; but Dieskau refused to be moved, bitterly denounced the Canadians and Indians, and ordered the Adjutant to leave him and lead the regulars in a last effort against the camp. It was too late.
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