They ran about among the yelling Indians, imploring them to desist, but in vain.
Some seven or eight hundred of the English were seized and carried off by the savages, while some seventy or eighty were massacred on the spot.

The column attempted no resistance.

None had ammunition, and, of the colonial troops, very few were armed with bayonets.

Had any resistance been offered, there can be no doubt all would have been massacred by the Indians.
Many of the fugitives ran back to the fort, and took refuge there, and Montcalm recovered from the Indians more than four hundred of those they had carried off.

These were all sent under a strong guard to Fort Edward.