Holden says, " Captain de Poulharies of the Royal Rousillon regiment, with an escort of two hundred and fifty soldiers, accompanied the survivors of the massacre, upwards of four hundred, with the one piece of cannon, a six pounder, granted by the ninth article of capitulation, as a token of the Marquis de Montcalm's esteem for Lieutenant Coflonel Monro and his garrison, on account of their honorable defense, to the post at the Half-Way Brook, where they met a like detachment from the garrison at Fort Edward, sent by General Webb to receive them." From records kept by officers and other documents, we learn that the " Half-Way " ° was usually designated Lhrough this war as the meeting place for white flag parties and exchange of prisoners. After the fall of Fort William Henry, the northern outposts of the British were abandoned, and the frontier left open to the ravages and raids of the savages and the Canadians. March loth, 1758, Major Robert Rogers, the Ranger, with

'Col. Montresor, who served in America from 1757 until 1760, makes several allusions to the "Half-Way" in his Journals covering that period. 'This is the generally accepted local usage of the name.

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about one hundred and eighty rangers, officers and privates, camped at the " Half-Way," the first considerable body of men to occupy it in the campaign of that year. From here he proceeded down Lake George, meeting with disaster and defeat at the hands of seven hundred of the enemy, three days afterward. June 8th, 1758, Lord Howe, the pride and idol of the army and his nation, a nobleman by birth and nature, took command of the forces, which for weeks 'had been gathering at Ford Edward. On June 20th we find him at the " Half- Way Brook " with three thousand men.