Battle of the Thousand Islands Fort Niagara. Battle of the Thousand Islands The Battle of the Thousand Islands (also known as the Siege of Montreal) was an engagement fought on 16–24 August 1760, in the upper St. Lawrence River, among the Thousand Islands, along the present day Canada–United States border, by British and French forces during the closing phases of the Seven Years' War, as it is called in Canada and Europe, or the French and Indian War as it is referred to in the United States. The engagement took place at Fort Lévis (about one mile (1.6 km) downstream from the modern Ogdensburg–Prescott International
Thousand Islands (Cocoa Beach) (Sw.) Willd.), blolly ("Guapira discolor" (Spreng.) Little), black ironwood ("Krugiodendron ferreum"(Vahl) Urb.), twinberry ("Myrcianthes fragrans"(Sw.) McVaugh), white indigo-berry ("Randia aculeata" L.), saffron plumb ("Sideroxylon celastrinum"(Kunth) T. D. Penn.), and wild lime ("Zanthoxylum fagara" (L.) Sarg.). Many of these plants are not found farther north than Brevard County. The state of Florida and Cocoa Beach purchased the islands north of Minutemen Causeway in 1988. Acquisition of the remaining south islands was completed by 2007. These islands are managed as the Thousand Islands Conservation Area by Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program. Efforts to acquire the remaining privately held islands began in