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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Articles of capitulation for Fort Oswego, where the garrison surrendered as prisoners of war to Marquis de Montcalm on August 14, 1756, translated from French and reported in Boston on November 15.
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The following are the Articles of the Capitulation of Oswego Fort, translated from a French Letter, and came by the last Courier from Albany.
The Demand made by the Commanding Officer of Oswego to the Marquis of Montcalm, Marshal of the Camps and Armies of the King, Commanding in Chief the Troops of His Majesty in North-America.
ARTICLE I. The Garrison shall surrender themselves Prisoners of War, and shall be conducted from Montreal, where they shall be treated with Humanity, and that each shall have the Treatment agreeable to his Rank, according to the Custom of War.
ART. II. The Officers and Soldiers, and others, shall have their Baggage, and Cloaths, which shall be permitted them, to take with them.
ART. III. They shall remain Prisoners of War, till such Time they are exchanged.
I accept the said Articles, in the Name of his Most Christian Majesty, on Conditions to deliver me up faithfully, the Fortifications, the Ammunitions, Artillery, Magazines, Vessels and Battoes, and every Thing else belonging thereunto.
I give full Power to Monsr. de la Bauze Major General, to fulfil the present Capitulation, and agree to the Form, as well for the said Fort, which our Troops will take Possession of, as for to assure you, that there be no Insult offered to the said Garrison. Done at the Camp before Oswego, the 14th August 11 o'Clock in the Morning 1756.
Signed, Montcalm.
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Oswego Fort
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14th August 1756
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garrison surrendered as prisoners of war to be conducted to montreal; fortifications, artillery, and vessels delivered to french troops; no insults to garrison promised.
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The Commanding Officer of Oswego demanded terms from Marquis de Montcalm; articles stipulate surrender of garrison as prisoners, retention of baggage and clothes, and detention until exchange; Montcalm accepts on condition of faithful delivery of fort and contents, empowering de la Bauze to execute.