Battle of the Thousand Islands

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Battle of the Thousand Islands
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
Date 16–24 August 1760 Location Saint Lawrence River, Thousand Islands 44°44′27.1″N 75°26′30.0″W / 44.740861°N 75.441667°W / 44.740861; -75.441667 Result British-Iroquois victory
Belligerents
Great Britain British America Iroquois Confederacy	France Colony of Canada
Commanders and leaders
Jeffery Amherst	Pierre Pouchot
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.