Eleven hundred Indian warriors answered the invitation, and after four days' speech making agreed to join.

Only 300 of them, however, took the field, for so many of their friends and relatives were fighting for the French, that the rest, when they sobered down after the excitement of the council, returned to their homes.
The object of the expedition was the attack of Crown Point--an important military post on Lake Champlain--and the colonists assembled near Albany; but there were great delays.

The five colonial assemblies controlled their own troops and supplies.

Connecticut had refused to send her men until Shirley promised that her commanding officer should rank next to Johnson, and the whole movement was for some time at a deadlock, because the five governments could not agree about their contributions of artillery and stores.
The troops were a rough-looking body.

Only one of the corps had a blue uniform, faced with red.