The Hi everybody, welcome to Iroquois History and Legends. This is Andrew. And this is Caleb, and it has been a long time, everybody. We've missed you. It's been almost a month since our last episode, which is the longest amount of time we've gone since we started the show over a year ago.

But we have a really good excuse. One, my wife had a new baby, so I've been taking care of her.

And two, Andrew and I, our softball league started last month. You know, we got to have our priorities.

Yeah. And ordinarily, that doesn't interfere with our podcasting, except when I took a softball to the jaw and cut my

lip open so I couldn't talk for a week. But it's healed, as you can tell. Andrew can talk again.

All right. We are in the middle of the French and Indian War, and so far the British have

been suffering mostly defeat after defeat, a victory here or there, but pretty much it's been

an utter disaster. And the French have been winning battle after battle, a victory here or there, but pretty much it's been an utter disaster.

And the French have been winning battle after battle, but somehow they're really not winning

the war, even though they're winning the battles. They're having all sorts of logistic issues

on getting supplies from France. Also, France is doing very poorly in the Seven Years War everywhere else in Europe.

And this is kind of taking away from a lot of the supplies and manpower that could be being sent to bolster the French in North America.

But because it's going so bad everywhere else, the King and Parliament are very hesitant to send reinforcements to America because they want

them to keep France safe. So let's just do a quick recap of what we covered last time. The

British have been under the leadership of the Earl of Loudon. And he has just left the colonies

and he's headed up to Lewisburg, which is in modern dayday Nova Scotia. And that didn't go so well.

And while he was gone, Fort William Henry was totally defeated by the French and their Indian allies.

To make matters worse, General Loudon became even more hated than the King of France,

because right before he left for his invasion of Lewisburg,

he banned all the ships from leaving any ports because

he was worried that they would go trade with the French and snitch on what his plans were.

But Andrew, if he's banning all trafficking of ships, how are people going to make any money

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