Show ff H ONOR R f FOR TI fR t tI I r I Arrangements Completed for bration at ill Lake George In Mem Memory 1 ory of Johnson and li 1 I TO BE DEDICATED I Irish anti and Mohawk ChieftaIn I 4 Who ho Helped Save S ew York L G From French Invasion 1 Special Correspondence i Cal well N Y Aug 17 ij ments s have been beon completed t I fl for tim Ihl celebration nn on tim till Mh th of or Sot I of t f tim the ono uno and Corl eighth of oC U tio o o or of Lake horge tho the chief fi of or which will be thu dedication ut of a mag magnificent mil it monument to the tho memory of two American an h who have hJo long lont been boen neglected Sir all William Johnson j tim thu Mohawk I I The Tho battle battlo of Lake o fought I Sept Sopt 8 1766 was waa one olle of ot tho the deciding i I contests conto lA of oC the tho French and Indian war warby warby by which wn vi raved caved for tor the corning coining re republic ret t public the tho vAst and an rich territory coY cov coveted co eted cled by Louis hauls XV then lh n master of I Canada Borne of ot the tho men who fought i on this thUs Held lived to light Against nn ili other king scarcely lesa Ia thin than Loul but Sir William John Johnson Johnson son BOH the tho Mohawk were welo p not lIot them Sir William died I i Just JURt before the tho outbreak of the tho war of I the Revolution to lo avert which he ex ox exe e nit nil hiS bis great Influence and hll 3 HOJI SOI Sir John Johnson espoused the cause of OC England I I ii Sir ir William Johnson Johnon M born horn In Ireland Emigrating to America he lie w settled let tied In III the tho Mohawk valley then an nn Indian where here hili 1111 tact ability and nad knowledge of ot In Indian InI 1 I 1 dian character soon sonn made him the con cen central lie He was colonel c of tho the t Six s1 Nations commissary of oC Indian af or affairs L fairs nIr and intI a 11 member of or thu governors 4 council It wan waD he lie who kept the tho Iro quote loyal to 10 the tho English during the war With France and nt lit tim the beginning I of that war he wan wn appointed to the command of ot the colonial troops in the north For Jor the tho victory Idor nt at George Gearl GeorgeIn In III winning he was 11 grievously l wounded He Will YUI made a baronet Lat Int p I was In command In the attack on r Fort Niagara was the chief of the Mo ii hawk hr k tribe and the faithful friend of at 1 BIr William Johnson Johnton lie He represented 1 i tho the Six Ix Nations In the trout tutty 1 In hI Albany In 1754 1151 antI ami later lator took the field nelll with his hla dusky warriors to help l the colonists defend their new country 1 At Lake he lie displayed the tho ut utmost I most bravery lighting fighting skis side by b side lId I 3 with the American officers until his I horse hono wn WM shot hot beneath him him and ho he r r was dispatched by b 1 tho bayonet of or a French rench grenadier I Although the battle battlo was wan fought III In I One day riy It really consisted of at three en to engagements j 1 I The rho first t resulted in tile r I aster from which whirl Sir William Johnson Johll on I f snatched ultimate and glorious victory Ic to 1 f p Col Cot Williams of or i colts AettA who was wan in 10 command of th the troops fil n the tho first engagement fell on at the outset of the ai adlon almost at the i t moment when Chief was wal wasi I II J I i I killed The Tue total loss lose of ot the tho troops exclusive of Indium was IGI f f The number of ot I men who wha what t I 1 I were vera slain Is II lint known Sir Str William In his official report placed the 1 l loss lOll nt lit tOO BOO Among the French Frenchmen I men mon killed was tas Ui lol de tie Bt t a i Pierre who had defeated II Col George O Washington on the tue Ohio the year Tho The monument will 1 Erected Ill on the Identical spot here the hottest of or the three tune engagements en Will was fought on I nn Ito elevation at al the heed head of ot the lake J iJ q midway hi between the two to sides It 11 will J be bo visible 11 11 for tor many miles mile In lii several era 1 I directions The site I ii fa chose to the old j military mUlto road Vor skirting the this battle field I I I I and atul Is II on the tall state The ho I monument consists tOlI l of two heroic bernie I I bronze s representing then Gen John 1 son Mn and Chief i Hendrick eIe III e 11 1 T by b sido sida as If It In m conversation stir ear mountain a boulder about fifteen tWeen feet teet Ik I I high The Tue total height of the thai r ment meat Is 5 feet Tile The figures were ter mod modA A tied by Albert Alhert of ot New e York The funds for the monument were I raised through by 11 the 11 i New Nt York state section e of the tt Society r 1 1 Jot of the Colonial Warn which will bare lmae t I 1 full tull charge of ot the th i lion The rhe program contemplates tl ad J f k b dresses by J Frederick k de da leyster chairman of ot the committee I I J Gov GO Odell Odeli Hugh Hastings Hulin th t h f t historian nail Anti b President i l f Until HOlh StatS gut r f troops troop will take put in the ij T I OlD HID |