[Sidenote: 1757. April 25. New York.]
Loudon to Pitt.
As the Garrison (Fort Henry) had been troubled with the scurvy I
had ordered Lieutenant General Otway’s Regiment to relieve them,
and Colonel Monro met the account of the attack being made on the
Fort on his march; he immediately left his baggage, and made all
possible dispatch to Fort Edward, where he received the account of
their being retired. Colonel Gage and Burton followed him directly
with the remains of the 44th and 46th Regiments and the Highlanders
were set in motion from Schenectady. They all marched without
Tents, and lay in the woods, &c.
We have on that river (Mohawk), at Schenectady, and up to the
German Flats, the Highland Regiment, upwards of a thousand men. &c.