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The French had suffered the most casualties during Schuyler's initial ambush, but the casualties the Albany force suffered after Valrennes' counterattack meant that they had incurred the greater proportion of loss. Instead of continuing his raids, Schuyler was forced to retreat back to Albany. The
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Schuyler's men surprised the much larger French force in a rainstorm just before dawn on August 11, inflicting severe casualties before withdrawing towards the Richelieu River. The Anglo-Indian force might have remained intact but instead was intercepted by a French force of 160 men led by
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1691 failed English colonial expeditions against Montreal during King William's War
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was an attack made on the French colonial settlement of
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battle was also the subject of a 19th-century poem by
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King William's War
Beaver Wars

La Prairie
La Prairie
New France
France
New France
New York
England
Mohawk
Mohicans
Callière
Pieter Schuyler
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Nine Years' War
North America
Hudson Bay (1686)
1st Fort Albany
2nd Fort Albany
York Factory
Hudson Bay (1697)
Lachine

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