Arnold's Expedition to QuebecMacmillan, 1901 - 340 pages |
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advance Americans arms army Arnold arrived assault bank barrier bateaux battery Benedict Arnold boats British Cambridge camp Canada Canadians cannon canoe Cape Diamond Captain Carleton carrying place Chambly Charles Chaudière pond Chaudière River command comrades Congress Dead River Dearborn encamped enemy Enos's expedition Falls feet fifty fire force Fort Halifax Fort Western French garrison gomery Greene's division guard guns Handchett Height of Land Hendricks's houses hundred Indian journal Kennebec killed Lake Lake Champlain Lawrence letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lower Town Major Meigs militia Montgomery Montreal Morgan morning night Norridgewock officers ordered party passed Point Levi Pointe aux Trembles portage prisoners provisions Quebec reached rear rebels regiment reinforcements retreat riflemen Roque Sartigan Sault au Matelot Schuyler seemed sent sentries shore siege smallpox Smith's company snow soldiers soon stream supplies Thayer troops Twelve Mile carry Upper Town vessels walls wilderness Wolfe's Cove wounded yards
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Page 304 - An Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships and Sufferings of that Band of Heroes who traversed the Wilderness in the Campaign against Quebec in 1775.
Page 304 - Quebec, being an Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships and Sufferings of that Band of Heroes who Traversed the Wilderness by the Route of the Kennebec and Chaudiere Rivers to Quebec, in the year 1775.
Page 32 - America ; upon your conduct and courage, and that of the officers and soldiers detached on this expedition, not only the success of the present enterprise, and your own honor, but the safety and welfare of the whole continent, may depend. I charge you, therefore, and the officers and soldiers under your command, as you value your own safety and honor, and the favor and esteem of your country, that you consider yourselves as marching, not through...
Page 91 - ... mud and water. As is generally the case with youths, it came to my mind, that a better path might be found than that of the more elderly guide. Attempting this, in a trice the water cooling my armpits, made me gladly return into the file.
Page 134 - The merit of this gentleman is certainly great," writes he, " and I heartily wish that fortune may distinguish him as one of her favorites. I am convinced that he will do everything that prudence and valor shall suggest to add to the success of our arms, and for reducing Quebec to our possession. Should he not be able to accomplish so desirable a work with the forces he has, I flatter myself that it will be effected when General Montgomery joins him, and our conquest...
Page 32 - While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to him only, in this case, are they answerable.
Page 32 - ... through the country of an enemy, but of our friends and brethren ; for such the inhabitants of Canada and the Indian nations have approved themselves, in this unhappy contest between Great Britain and America ; and that you check, by every motive of duty and fear of punishment, every attempt to plunder or insult the inhabitants of Canada. Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian, in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring...
Page 115 - We have planted the ground, and by our labor grown rich. Now a new king and his wicked great men want to take our lands and money without our consent. This we think unjust, and all our great men, from the river St. Lawrence to the Mississippi, met together at Philadelphia, where they all talked together, and sent a prayer to the king that they would be brothers and fight for him, but would not give up their lands and money. The king would not hear our prayer, but sent a great army to Boston and endeavored...
Page 143 - On surrendering the town, the property of every individual shall be secured to him; but if I am obliged to carry the town by storm, you may expect every severity practised on such occasions: and the merchants who may now save their property will probably be involved in the general ruin.
Page 101 - The universal weakness of body that now prevailed over every man increased hourly on account of the total destitution of food; and the craggy mounds over which we had to pass, together with the snow and the cold penetrating through our death-like frames, made our situation completely wretched, and nothing but death was wanting to finish our sufferings.