[or John Erdman or Ludwig]. Soldier of Saxony who served under Marshal Saxe, and afterward at the head of French troops in Canada; born in 1701; died in Surenne, France, on the 8th of September 1767. He was a major-general in the French service, when, in 1755, with about a thousand French and Indians, he entered Lake Champlain to attack Fort Edward, and surprised and defeated the New England troops, under Colonel Williams, sent to oppose him. In the pursuit which followed the victory, his Indians failed him and a desperate conflict with the British ensued, in which, after losing all his men and being severely wounded, he was made a prisoner. After being exchanged in 1763, he returned to France, where he received a pension for meritorious services, and eventually died of his wounds.
