The Curious History of Ulysses Grant's Great Grandfather

The Curious History of Ulysses Grant's Great Grandfather

Fort William Henry, 1755     During the summer of 1756, Lieutenant Quintin Kennedy led a motley band of British Regulars, Scottish Highlanders, Mohawk warriors, and Provincial troops on a scouting party in the dense woods north of Lake George in New York. At that time, British forces and their Indian allies were sporadically engaging in violent clashes with French troops and their Indian allies in this fiercely contested region as part of the Fr…