<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> It started with jaunty confidence and skirling bagpipes. Five days later it had turned into one of the bloodiest and most futile battles ever fought on American soil.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The largest army ever assembled in North America at the time attacked the French at New York’s Fort Carillon, with disastrous results.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">250 years ago, Major Robert Rogers and his rangers launched a daring wilderness raid against an enemy village, but paid a steep price.</span></p>
