29 The French and Indian War IV: Fort William Henry

Iroquois History and Legends

Andrew James Cotter

Canadian History, Iroquois, History, North American History, First Nations, Religion & Spirituality, American History, Education, Six Nations, Native America, Christianity, Native American, Indian History, Colonial History, Haudenosaunee

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario and Fort William Henry on the south end of Lake George will face massive French and Indian armies. Will they survive?

Sources:

THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA BY FRED ANDERSON

THE PAPERS OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON BY WILLIAM JOHNSON

THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

IROQUOIS DIPLOMACY ON THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER BY TIMOTHY J. SHANNON

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. My name is Lee, and you are listening to an episode of Iroquois, history, and legends.
0:09.1	Now, Andrew and Caleb do a fantastic job of sifting through sparse, incomplete, and biased sources
0:16.8	in an attempt to reconstruct the history and culture of the Hodi Nashone.
0:23.2	On my show, The Viking Age Podcast, we take a similar approach to a very different people,
0:30.9	the medieval Scandinavians, who today we know as the Vikings.
0:36.4	Now, of course, the Vikings are famous as bloodthirsty raiders.
0:42.1	And they are also known as explorers who arrived in North America over 500 years before Champlain or Cartier.
0:51.4	But they also believed in shape-shifting. They had complex political systems,
0:58.5	and they even held sacrificial feasts for elves. In our show, we try to tell the full story
1:06.8	of these fascinating people. We talk about raiding, trading, and exploration, but we also
1:14.0	explore the economy, culture, and religion of Scandinavia during the Viking Age to try to
1:20.9	explain why the Vikings did what they did. So, when you're done with this episode,
1:29.4	why don't you consider giving the Viking Age podcast to try?
1:33.7	You can search for us on any podcast app,
1:37.0	and you can find us online at Vikingagepodcast.com.
1:42.6	But for now, let me turn you back over to Andrew and Caleb.
1:47.1	Enjoy. Hello and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends. I'm Andrew.
2:16.2	And I'm Caleb and welcome to part four on several parts series we're doing on the French and Indian War. We're titling this one Fort William Henry. So if you want to know what's going on, we would highly recommend that you jump back a few episodes and visit our first episode on the French and Indian War series. Previously, Caleb, we talked about Fort Bull,
2:35.5	and this was a British, if you want to call it a fort, sure, it's a fort, but it was in this
2:41.3	location known as the Oneida Carey, which was between Wood Creek and the Mohawk River, and it allowed
2:46.8	access to either the Hudson River Valley or the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes system,
2:52.2	depending on which way you went. So it was a very central and strategic location.
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