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Battle of the Thousand Islands | |||||||
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Part of the Montreal Campaign of the French and Indian War | |||||||
![]() Williamson's gunboats capture the French corvette L'Outaouaise near Point au Baril, painted by Thomas Davies | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Iroquois Confederacy | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
11,000 regulars and provincial troops 700 Iroquois | 300 regulars, militia, sailors and voyageurs | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
26 dead 47 wounded (likely excluding militia) | 300 dead, wounded, or captured |
The Battle of the Thousand Islands was an engagement fought on 16–24 August 1760, in the upper St. Lawrence River, among the Thousand Islands, along the present day Canada–United States border, by British and French forces during the closing phases of the Seven Years' War, as it is called in Canada and Europe, or the French and Indian War as it is referred to in the United States.
The engagement took place at Fort Lévis (about one mile (1.6 km) downstream from the modern Ogdensburg–Prescott International Bridge), Pointe au Baril (present-day Maitland, Ontario), and the surrounding waters and islands during the Montreal Campaign. The small French garrison at Fort Lévis held the much larger British army at bay for over a week, managing to sink two British warships and to cripple a third. Their resistance delayed the British advance to Montreal from the west.