Battle of Fort Frontenac

Part of the Seven Years' War
French and Indian War

Depiction of the battle by John Henry Walker

Date	August 26–28, 1758
Location	present-day Kingston, Ontario Coordinates: 44°14′00″N 76°28′43″W / 44.23333°N 76.47861°W / 44.23333; -76.47861
Result	British victory

Belligerents

Great Britain

Colony of Canada

Commanders and leaders

John Bradstreet

Pierre-Jacques Payen de Noyan et de Chavoy (POW)

Strength

2,635

(2,500 militia and 135 regulars)

110 men, women and children

Casualties and losses

11 wounded

2 killed

2,635

The Battle of Fort Frontenac took place on August 26–28, 1758 during the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War in North America) between France and Great Britain. The location of the battle was Fort Frontenac, a French fort and trading post which is located at the site of present-day Kingston, Ontario, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario where it drains into the St. Lawrence River.

British Lieutenant Colonel John Bradstreet led an army of over 3,000 men, of whom about 150 were regulars and the remainder were provincial militia. The army besieged the 110 people inside the fort and won their surrender two days later, cutting one of the two major communication and supply lines between the major eastern centres of Montreal and Quebec City and France's western territories (the northern route, along the Ottawa River, remained open throughout the war). The British captured goods worth 800,000 livres from the trading post.

The British military campaigns for the French and Indian War in 1758 contained three primary objectives. Two of these objectives, captures of Fort Louisbourg and Fort Duquesne met with success. The third campaign, an expedition involving 16,000 men under the command of General James Abercrombie, was disastrously defeated on July 8, 1758, by a much smaller French force when it attempted the capture of Fort Carillon (known today as Fort Ticonderoga). Following that failure, many of Abercrombie's underlings sought to distance themselves from any responsibility for the disaster.

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