. The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897. LAKE CHAMPLAIN—A THOUSAND SAILORS,OF WHOM SEVEN-TENTHS WERE PICKED MEN, ARMED WITHTHE HEAVIEST GUNS, WERE PITTED b^DER A COURAGEOUSLEADER AGAINST 70O YANKEES, CHIEFLY: HAYMAKERS, POORLYARMED AND WITH INSUFFICIENT AMMUNITION—SAVAGES WITHSCALPING KNIVES AIDED THE BRITISH—A DESPERATE STRUG-GLE AT THE END—THE BEST ALL-AROUND FIGHTER UNDERWASHINGTON. If the naval Lexington—the first battle ofthe Revolution afloat—was fought on the barat Providence, Rhode Island, the naval BunkerHill, a battle wherein glory and renown weregaine
. The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897. LAKE CHAMPLAIN—A THOUSAND SAILORS,OF WHOM SEVEN-TENTHS WERE PICKED MEN, ARMED WITHTHE HEAVIEST GUNS, WERE PITTED b^DER A COURAGEOUSLEADER AGAINST 70O YANKEES, CHIEFLY: HAYMAKERS, POORLYARMED AND WITH INSUFFICIENT AMMUNITION—SAVAGES WITHSCALPING KNIVES AIDED THE BRITISH—A DESPERATE STRUG-GLE AT THE END—THE BEST ALL-AROUND FIGHTER UNDERWASHINGTON. If the naval Lexington—the first battle ofthe Revolution afloat—was fought on the barat Providence, Rhode Island, the naval BunkerHill, a battle wherein glory and renown weregained in defeat, was fought on Lake Cham-plain. Not only was the moral effect of thisbattle quite as great in the courage it gavethe Americans, and the pause for thought itgave the enemy ; it served to head off a victo-rious invading British army bound for Albanyand the subjugation of northern New York. The American troops had invaded Canada,some under Benedict Arnold going throughthe Maine woods, and some under Montgom-ery going by way of Lake Champlain. The. THE HISTORY OF OUR NAVY 85 two bodies had united under tlie walls ofQuebec, and there Montgomery had died andArnold had bled in vain. The terrors of thefierce Canadian winter and the distress of dis-ease had aided the British forces in drivingthe Americans back, until at last, in the fall of1776, Sir Guy Carleton, at the head of theBritish, was lodged at St. Johns, at the northend of Lake Champlain, while Crown Pointwas the advance post of the Americans. It will be remembered that at this time thewaves of this beautiful lake lapped the unbro-ken wilderness, no matter what the directionof the wind might be. St. Johns, CrownPoint, and Ticonderoga were but militaryposts, and there was not even a woodsy roadfor wagons on either side of the lake north ofCrown Point. Sir Guy Carleton was confident in the belief^that the revolted colonies would soon be sub-jugated, and he was full of ambition to have a^part of the glory
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