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commanding officer at St. Louis, surrounds the rebel camp threatening that city, and captures 800 men in arms.
Lyon's exploit, like Allen's, was done mostly on his own responsibility, and without direct orders.
Allen, when asked by the British commandant at Ticonderoga his authority for demanding its surrender, could only reply, “By the authority of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress;” and Capt. Lyon, in his summons to Gen. Frost, demands his surrender on general grounds only.
Both Allen and Lyon took the enemy by surprise, who capitulated without striking a blow.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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