. New England; a human interest geographical reader. t continued until aftersunset, and then Breyman hastily retreated. Starkpursued him till it was impossible to aim a gun or dis-tinguish friend from foe in the gathering gloom. Breyman escaped with less than one hundred American loss in killed and wounded during theday was seventy. Two of the cannon captured fromthe Hessians in this battle are to be seen in the StateHouse at Montpelier. Ethan Allen took no part in the Bennington had fallen into the hands of the British the sameyear that he captured Ticonderoga, while engaged
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. t continued until aftersunset, and then Breyman hastily retreated. Starkpursued him till it was impossible to aim a gun or dis-tinguish friend from foe in the gathering gloom. Breyman escaped with less than one hundred American loss in killed and wounded during theday was seventy. Two of the cannon captured fromthe Hessians in this battle are to be seen in the StateHouse at Montpelier. Ethan Allen took no part in the Bennington had fallen into the hands of the British the sameyear that he captured Ticonderoga, while engaged inan expedition that invaded Canada. For three yearshe was held a prisoner, most of the time in he was brought back and exchanged. On hisarrival at Bennington the people thronged into thehamlet to greet their old leader, and though powderwas scarce and precious a cannon was charged, and itthundered forth a salute of thirteen guns for the UnitedStates, and one for Vermont. In his last years AllenUved at BurUngton, where he died in A Lake Champlain ferry-boatLake Champlain LAKE Champlain was discovered in 1609 by thegreat French explorer whose name it bears. Hecame thither from the little settlement of Quebec,which he had started the year previous. His mainobject was to find a way to China. A war party of the293 294 New England Canadian Indians went with him, and he had agreedto help them in attacking their enemies, the went up the Richelieu River and entered thelake about the middle of the summer in twenty-fourcanoes. There were two other Frenchmen besidesChamplain, and sixty warriors. Some of the Indiansspent a part of each day on shore hunting in order tosupply the expedition with food. To be sure, they hada provision of parched maize pounded into meal, butthey saved this for use when they should be so closeto the enemy that hunting would be impossible. Late
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