George

George, LAKE, called also Horicon, a beautiful lake, 32 miles long, near the eastern border of New York state. It forms the head-waters of Lake Champlain, is studded with hundreds of picturesque islands, and its shores contain several favourite summer-resorts, especially the village of Caldwell or Lake George. Here was fought the battle of Lake George, in which the French and Algonquins under Baron Dieskau were utterly defeated by the English and Iroquois under Sir William Johnson, on 8th September 1755.