Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs . nd five companies of the First wereat Fort Edward, and on the 19th were ordered up to Fort George, fourteen milesfurther north, where they were joined by the other two battalions to St. Johnson the Sorel. On June 2, 1776, Colonel St. Clair was ordered to attack thecamp of Colonel MacLean, who had advanced as far as Three Rivers witheight hundred British Regulars and Canadians, Colonel St. Clairs commandnumbering six hundred men. Four days later Irvines and Waynes battalionswere ordered to join St. Clairs a
Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs . nd five companies of the First wereat Fort Edward, and on the 19th were ordered up to Fort George, fourteen milesfurther north, where they were joined by the other two battalions to St. Johnson the Sorel. On June 2, 1776, Colonel St. Clair was ordered to attack thecamp of Colonel MacLean, who had advanced as far as Three Rivers witheight hundred British Regulars and Canadians, Colonel St. Clairs commandnumbering six hundred men. Four days later Irvines and Waynes battalionswere ordered to join St. Clairs and General William Thompson, of the oldPennsylvania Rifle Battalion, was placed in command, with orders to attack theBritish at Three Rivers unless it was found inexpedient. The command wasmisled in the swamps by false guides and the expedition proved a failure, andbut for the intrepid daring of Colonel Wood and his command the boats ofthe Americans would have fallen into the hands of the enemy. The commandjoined Arnold in his retreat from Montreal, and after extraordinary trials and. POTTER !033 vicissitudes, of forced marches through swamps, etc., long without food, ofsickness and defeat the whole force reached the Isle Aux Noix, on June 19,where great numbers of the officers and men were taken sick. On June 27th,thy took vessels for Crown Point which they reached on July 5, and passed onto Ticonderoga on the 7th, Colonel Wood being severely wounded in the leftleg and left arm, on the trip from Crown Point to Ticonderoga. Colonel Woodsand Waynes battalions remained at Ticonderoga until January 24, 1777, whenthe Second left with General Wayne for home. On March 3, 1777, the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of Woods battalion presented their petition tothe Council of Safety in Philadelphia, where they had then been for three weeks,setting forth their arduous service for the past year in a Country where this Currency would not pass, or in Deserts where few of theNecessarys
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