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Events on Saturday 8 July 1758 1
1758Battle of CarillonMontcalm's heavily outnumbered French repel a British assault at TiconderogaOn 8 July 1758, around 3,600 French troops under the Marquis de Montcalm repelled a British force more than three times their size at Fort Carillon on Lake Champlain. The British commander James Abercrombie ordered repeated frontal assaults against entrenched French positions, suffering heavy casualties. It was among the bloodiest single-day battles fought in North America up to that time.