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