#TDiH In the British Camp outside Fort Carillon July 26, 1759 The enemy continue firing shot and shells. –Busy in getting up battering-plank, shot, shells, &c. which are drawn by men as we had no horses till to-day . . . betwixt 10 and 11o’clock came into the trenches four deserters; but, before they were able to acquaint the General [Amherst] of the enemy’s designs, the magazine of the fort blew up, and set it on fire, which communicated to the shells and musquets that they left loaded; and it made it impossible to approach the fort, without the greatest danger. Journal of Captain-Lieutenant Henry Skinner
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