The French didn’t see any smoke from fires the Mohawks were supposed to set to signal that they had reached the town.  The colonel commanded his men to spread out and approach the town from all sides.  Also, the few artillery pieces that were brought would be placed overlooking the town from the mountains nearby.  But before anything could be done, the observation units spotted the French forces and 800 projections were beamed to the area to surround the soldiers. 

One of the people of Newgate experiencing the action said in French through one of the projections, “You are surrounded.  Surrender and drop your weapons or we will be forced to fire upon you.”

The colonel foolishly ordered his men to fire upon those that were seen and into the forest that surrounded them.  They were cut down in seconds.  In one of the swiftest battles ever fought, 351 men were killed.  It took longer to transport the bodies back to Quebec City where the colonel had been dispatched from.  The people who saw the bodies start to appear were frightened and thought it had to be the work of Satan.  Only after they realized they were just dead bodies and not cursed, they were buried and mourned. 

After the spheres were packed away in the trunk and shifted back to the store, a banquet was held in the city auditorium where concerts, operas, and dances were held.  There was plenty of food and beverages replicated and the town’s official composer, Sangis Kernden, was commissioned to compose an oratorio in honor of the battle that was over in a shorter time than what performing the music would take.  So Kernden decided to base his musical drama on the battles the Children of Israel fought to claim the Promised Land.  It would be added to his repertoir he had been compiling for over half a century. 

As far as history was concerned, the phantom army that defended Newgate never existed and the battle never happened.  But for the rest of the war no one tried to attack the town again.