SRR-04-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale set we are offering. It comes in its original box and is in like new condition.
John Jenkins Designs SRR-04 The Captive Set
Limited edition #339 of 500 sets.
The enemy party that Roger’s Rangers had initially fired upon, turned
out to be just the advance guard of over 200 additional French and
Indians. The Battle on Snowshoes had only just begun.
The Rangers, in turn were surprised, and had to retreat and reform. They
succeeded in twice driving back the reinforced enemy party, but had
lost both the initiative and their superiority of numbers.
After losing many men, over an hour and a half of combat, Rogers saw
that further resistance was useless, and ordered a general retreat.
However Rogers’ right flank under the command of Lieutenant William
Phillips, had become completely surrounded by a large party of Indians.
Phillips had decided to surrender after the enemy had assured him and
his men that they would be given “good quarters”.
Shortly afterwards, in Rogers’ own words, Phillips’ and his men were “
inhumanly tied up to trees, and hewn to pieces, in a most barbarous and
shocking manner.”
A French prisoner was to publish in “The Boston News-Letter” in 1758,
“above 30 of the English….. were killed and cut to pieces after they had
capitulated, the Indians being enraged at finding a number of scalps in
an officer’s pocket."