. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. erica restored to her constitutional liberties. I am, &c,John Hancock, President. To General Montgomery. Though now master of one of the most important keys to Canada, nota moment was to be lost in gaining possession of the other, for, as Mont-gomery wrote to Congress : Till Quebec is taken, Canada is unconquered. MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY 285 Notwithstanding the severity of the weather, the desertion of many troops,the insubordination of officers, and a multitude of discouragements, heled on his band of three hundred patriots o
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. erica restored to her constitutional liberties. I am, &c,John Hancock, President. To General Montgomery. Though now master of one of the most important keys to Canada, nota moment was to be lost in gaining possession of the other, for, as Mont-gomery wrote to Congress : Till Quebec is taken, Canada is unconquered. MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY 285 Notwithstanding the severity of the weather, the desertion of many troops,the insubordination of officers, and a multitude of discouragements, heled on his band of three hundred patriots over frozen ground and driftingsnows, keeping alive their hopes, and cheering them on to endure everyhardship, by his own noble example of self-sacrifice and heroic devotionto his adopted country. Soon, November 17th, he learned that the advent-urous Arnold had completed that memorable march—one of the mostwonderful on record—with his half starved, freezing army, through deepswamps, trackless forests, and tangled ravines, over craggy highlands and. PRESCOT GATE, QUEBEC. difficult portages, and down the rushing rapids of the Kennebec and theChaudiere. After a brief delay before Quebec, Arnold marched up the to join Montgomery. On the 1st of December the two heroesmet at Pointe aux Trembles, twenty miles above the city, Montgomerytaking command of the combined force, now only nine hundred effectivemen, with which, on the 4th, in the face of a driving snowstorm, hemarched on Quebec, and on the 5th, after a slow and excessively fatiguingmarch, reached St. Foye, establishing hfs headquarters at Holland was now in sight of the goal of his ardent wishes, to reach which 286 MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY for three months he had endured every species of toil and suffering. Inhis brief campaign, almost insurmountable obstacles had been overcome,and victory after victory had crowned his heroic efforts. Ticonderoga,Crown Point, Forts St. Johns and Chambly, Montrea
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