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Caudet UK. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

Today, episode 8, the Surrender of Fort Oswego.

When we left off last week, the surrender of Fort Oswego.

When we left off last week, London sent General Loudon in the summer of 1756 to take command of the North American operation,

recalling General Shirley back to London to face criminal charges. Due to the strategic mess that everyone blamed on Shirley, not much of anything got done

militarily for the rest of the year.

Meanwhile, France finally declared war on Britain in the spring of 1756

after Britain had been attacking French forts in America for most of 1755.

The French had sent General Montcalm to command the French forces in North America

and coordinate the French military response. Prior to the war, the British had built a line of forts from Albany to Lake Ontario.

Fort Oswego was the final fort in that chain sitting on the eastern bank of Lake Ontario where the Oswego River connects to the lake.

In the last episode I mentioned the fact that Fort Oswego was not really in much condition to be defensible in 1755.

Originally built as a trading post, it just wasn't designed to support a large force of

soldiers.

The British would need to make changes if they wanted to use it as a launching point against the French at Fort Niagara.

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