Battle of Fort Niagara ( July 1759) France vs Great Britain Iroquois

With your donations I can get more time to create and upload new videos. Please support my channel and subscribe. Thanks. :) Cut from American movie The Broken Chain 1993. The Battle of Fort Niagara was a siege late in the French and Indian War, the North American theatre of the Seven Years War. The British siege of Fort Niagara in July 1759 was part of a campaign to remove French control of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley regions, making possible a western invasion of the French province of Canada in conjunction with General James Wolfe s invasion to the east. The French had about one hundred Iroquois allies at the Fort who deserted when the British arrived. Captain Pouchot directed a vigorous defense. Prideaux was killed when a shell fragment from one of his own guns hit him, and command of the British forces fell to Sir William Johnson. Johnson was a provincial officer and not in the regular army, and thus there was some question of his right to take command. But Sir