From An Historical Accounty of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies...
In April 1760 Colonel Montgomery landed in Carolina. Great was the joy in the province of Georgia upon the arrival of this gallant officer but as the conquest of Canada was the grand object of this year's campaign in America he had orders to strike a sudden blow for the relief of the southern provinces and return to head quarters at Albany without loss of time.
...marched with a party of his men in the night to surprise Estatoe an Indian town about twenty miles from his camp. ...Having finished this business with the loss of only three or four men he marched to the relief of Fort Prince George (near present day Pickens, South Carolina)...
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