The British invasion from the northThe campaigns of Generals Carleton and Burgoyne, from Canada, 1776-1777, with the journal of LieutWilliam Digby, of the 53d, or Shropshire regiment of foot . hich was to leave the artillery and bag-gage, and following the west side of the Hudson, tocross the river four miles above Fort Edward,then gar-risoned by the Americans, and to continue the retreatto Ticonderoga leaving Lake George to the adopted the proposal of Riedesel, whichwas a wise one had the way then been open, and hehad every thing made ready for the march, whenhe learned by scou
The British invasion from the northThe campaigns of Generals Carleton and Burgoyne, from Canada, 1776-1777, with the journal of LieutWilliam Digby, of the 53d, or Shropshire regiment of foot . hich was to leave the artillery and bag-gage, and following the west side of the Hudson, tocross the river four miles above Fort Edward,then gar-risoned by the Americans, and to continue the retreatto Ticonderoga leaving Lake George to the adopted the proposal of Riedesel, whichwas a wise one had the way then been open, and hehad every thing made ready for the march, whenhe learned by scouts that the Americans wereintrenched opposite the ford which he would have tocross, and that parties were posted along the shore the river, and were constructed in 1775-6. Fort Montgom-ery was large enough to accommodate eight hundred, andClinton four hundred men, and both were built of stones andearth. Below them the river was obstructed by a strongboom and massive iron chain, the latter eighteen hundredfeet in length, buoyed by spars and timber rafts. Theseobstructions were the result of a recommendation in a re-port of a commission to Congress, of which General Knoxof Maine was
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