. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. pursued the brave Huguenot with implacable vengeance till shebrought him to the scaffold, May 27, 1576. After receiving a liberal education at Dublin College, Montgomery, inhis eighteenth year, September 21, 1756, entered the British Army, as anEnsign of the Seventeenth Infantry, being soon after called to the for America his career opened here, and not in the SevenYears War of Prussia. In 1757 his regiment was ordered to Halifax, andthe next year took part, under the immediate command of General Wolfe,in the capture
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. pursued the brave Huguenot with implacable vengeance till shebrought him to the scaffold, May 27, 1576. After receiving a liberal education at Dublin College, Montgomery, inhis eighteenth year, September 21, 1756, entered the British Army, as anEnsign of the Seventeenth Infantry, being soon after called to the for America his career opened here, and not in the SevenYears War of Prussia. In 1757 his regiment was ordered to Halifax, andthe next year took part, under the immediate command of General Wolfe,in the capture of Louisburg, the American Gibraltar, guarding the en-trance to the St. Lawrence from the Atlantic. During the investment andsiege of this great fortress—one of the most noted monuments of Frenchpower on this continent—young Montgomery showed such heroism andmilitary capacity that he was promoted to be a Lieutenant, July 10, 1758. The news of Montcalms bloody repulse of the British attack upon Vol. 4—19 2/4 MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY. a j £ 8 ° s > 8 MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY 275 Ticonderoga, July 8, 1758, having reached General Amherst at Cape Bre-ton, he, after leaving proper garrisons both at Louisburg and Halifax,without orders, hastened to the relief of the defeated Abercrombie withfive of his most efficient regiments, including the seventeenth. Landing atBoston, September 13, Amherst marched for fourteen days through analmost trackless wilderness to Fort William Henry, at the head of LakeGeorge ; and, in November following, was appointed to supersede Aber-crombie in the chief command of the British forces in America. The next year England, anxious to profit by the advantage acquiredby the capture of Cape Breton, decided upon a vigorous campaign, bysending Stanwix to complete the occupation of the posts connectingLake Erie with the Ohio; Prideaux to reduce Fort Niagara; Amherst tomove upon Montreal by Lake Champlain ; and Wolfe, with a large
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