David Blauvelt (b. 25 Jun 1738 d.in 1758) son of Johannes Blauvelt and Rachel Demarest David Blauvelt was a blacksmith who enlisted on April 5 1757 during the French Indian Wars. David would die while in service. Muster Rolls NY Provo troops 1755-64 list Davids service David Blauvelt was service in Capt. John Peter Smiths Company, Colonel Oliver DeLancey New York troops. He died in the service, and compensation due him was paid to his heirs. However it does not state how David died, however I know there were only four major battles took place in 1758 during the war 1) July 8, 1758: Battle of Carillon: The French take Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga), NY 2) July 26, 1758: Louisbourg: The British seize Louisbourg, opening the route to Canada. 3) August 27, 1758: Fort Frontenac: The French surrender this fort on Lake Ontario, effectively destroying their ability to communicate with their troops in the Ohio Valley. 4) November 26, 1758:Duquesne: The British recapture Fort Duquesne It is renamed Pittsburgh. DeLancey command a provincial detachment in the Ticonderoga campaign of 1758. Since David belong to DeLancey unit it is safe to assume that David died either 8 July 1758 or within a few days afterward while fighting in the Battle of Fort Carillon. The French and Indian War (1754–1763) is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years War. The same war is referred to in Canadian history as the War of the Conquest. The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, who declared war on each other in 1756. In the same year, the war escalated from a regional affair into a worldwide conflict. The war was fought primarily along the frontiers separating New France from the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia. The French were greatly outnumbered, so they made heavy use of Indian allies. It began with a dispute over control of the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, called the Forks of the Ohio, and the site of the French Fort Duquesne and present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The dispute erupted into violence in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in May 1754, during which Virginia militiamen under the command of 22-year-old George Washington ambushed a French patrol. British operations in 1755, 1756 and 1757 in the frontier areas of Pennsylvania and New York all failed, due to a combination of poor management, internal divisions, and effective Canadian, French and Indian offense. The 1755 British capture of Fort Beauséjour on the border separating Nova Scotia from Acadia was followed by the expulsion of the Acadians. The Acadian moved to the other major French in North America, Louisiana and they are known today as the Cajuns. The outcome was one of the most significant developments in a century of Anglo-French conflict. France ceded French Louisiana west of the Mississippi River to its ally Spain in compensation for Spains loss to Britain of Florida (which Spain had ceded to Britain in exchange for the return of Havana, Cuba). Frances colonial presence north of the Caribbean was reduced to the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, confirming Britains position as the dominant colonial power in eastern North America. Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York in the United States. During the 1758 Battle of Carillon, 4,000 French defenders were able to repel an attack by 16,000 British troops near the fort. The Battle of Carillon, also known as the 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga,[5] was fought on July 8, 1758, during the French and Indian War (which was part of the global Seven Years War). It was fought near Fort Carillon (now known as Fort Ticonderoga) on the shore of Lake Champlain in the frontier area between the British colony of New York and the French colony of Canada. In the battle, which took place primarily on a rise about three-quarters of a mile from the fort, a French army of about 4,000 men under General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and the Chevalier de Levis decisively defeated an overwhelmingly numerically superior force of British troops under General James Abercrombie, which frontally assaulted an entrenched French position without using field artillery. The battle was the bloodiest of the war, with over 3,000 casualties suffered, of which over 2,000 were British. Many military historians have cited the Battle of Carillon as a classic example of tactical military incompetence. Abercrombie, confident of a quick victory, ignored several viable military options, such as flanking the French breastworks, waiting for his artillery, or laying siege to the fort. Instead, relying on a flawed report from a young military engineer, and ignoring some of that engineers recommendations, he decided in favor of a direct frontal assault on the thoroughly entrenched French, without the benefit of artillery. Montcalm, while concerned about the weak military position of the fort, conducted the defense with spirit. However, due in part to a lack of time, he committed strategic errors in preparing the areas defenses that a competent attacker could have exploited, and he made tactical errors that made the attackers job easier. The fort, abandoned by its garrison, was captured by the British the following year, and it has been known as Fort Ticonderoga (after its location) ever since. This battle gave the fort a reputation for impregnability that had an effect on future military operations in the area. Despite several large-scale military movements through the area, in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War, this was the only major battle fought near the forts location. If you watch the movie that Last of the Mohicans, the French General attacking Fort William Henry is Montcalm and Fort Henry was his previous battle to Ticonderoga. Sources Blauvelt Genealogical Website Muster Rolls of the New York Provincial Troops 1755-1764 Gipson, Lawrence Henry, The British Empire before the American Revolution, Volume 7. New York: Knopf, 1965 Nester, William, The Epic Battles of the Ticonderoga, 1758, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2008
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