The picturesque StLawrence . in August, 1775, an expedition wasstarted down Lake Champlain under the com-mand of Richard Montgomery. On the twelfthof November he was in possession of Montrealand there issued a proclamation urging theCanadians to join hands with the colonies inthe war. Meanwhile Benedict Arnold with over athousand men was making his way throughthe forests of Maine toward Quebec. He andhis followers went in boats up the Kennebec. Inorder to reach the Chaudiere which flows intothe St. Lawrence they had to carry boats, oarsand baggage on their shoulders a long distancethrough the
The picturesque StLawrence . in August, 1775, an expedition wasstarted down Lake Champlain under the com-mand of Richard Montgomery. On the twelfthof November he was in possession of Montrealand there issued a proclamation urging theCanadians to join hands with the colonies inthe war. Meanwhile Benedict Arnold with over athousand men was making his way throughthe forests of Maine toward Quebec. He andhis followers went in boats up the Kennebec. Inorder to reach the Chaudiere which flows intothe St. Lawrence they had to carry boats, oarsand baggage on their shoulders a long distancethrough the tangled undergrowth of the primevalwoods. Before the end of the portage theirshoes were worn out, their clothes in tatters andtheir food gone. Some small game was shot andthey devoured their dogs. When they reachedthe Chaudiere, after a terrible march of thirty-three days, many of their number had suc-cumbed to starvation, cold and fatigue, whiletwo hundred more had turned back carry-ing with them the sick and disabled. The. ^ o Quebecs Eventful History 185 descent of the Chaudiere afforded some respite,and they presently began to find cattle forfood. They arrived at the mouth of the river a littleabove Quebec, about the middle of November,crossed the broad St. Lawrence and climbed tothe Plains of Abraham by the same ravine thatWolfe had climbed to victory. The little, worn-out army, now reduced to seven hundred men,summoned the garrison of the town to surrender,or come out and fight; but the garrison woulddo neither. So Arnold waited for Montgomeryto come from Montreal. He arrived about threeweeks later and it was agreed to attack thedefences. On the last day of the year at twooclock in the morning, in a blinding snowstorm,Montgomery and Arnold each began a furiousattack on opposite sides of the town. Theirassault was a surprise; but Montgomery in thenarrow pass at the base of Cape Diamond,fighting his way into the Lower Town, fell dead,pierced by three bullets; and his men, c
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