Excerpt from Saratoga, Lake George and Lake Champlain: A Book of Today

Slow English remonstrated. But at that time took no active measures to resist the advance on what they claimed as their territory. The Indians that gathered around the fort were a constant menaceto the exposed homes of the English settlers of the Upper Hudson, and often was the story told of a sudden descent on some unprotected point, a ri¿e shot, a gleaming knife or bloody tomahawk, and a retreat by the light of a burning building. In the suggestive words of the French reports concerning their Indian allies. They occasionally struck a blow and returned with some scalps.

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