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November (search for this): chapter 14
Chapter 54: The siege of Quebec. November—December, 1775. The day before Montgomery entered Montreal, Chap. LIV.} 1775 Nov. Carleton, with more than a hundred regulars and Canadians, embarked on board some small vessels in the port to dNov. Carleton, with more than a hundred regulars and Canadians, embarked on board some small vessels in the port to descend to Quebec. He was detained in the river for several days by contrary winds, and moreover he found the St. Lawrence, near the mouth of the Sorel, guarded by continental troops under Easton. On the seventeenth of November, Prescott, the brigadidence among the loyal. Thus far he had shown great poverty of resources as a military chief; but his Chap. LIV.} 1775. Nov. humane disposition, his caution, his pride, and his firmness were guarantees that Quebec would be pertinaciously defended.s, who at first were disposed to share his winter campaign. The continental congress, which was eager Chap. LIV.} 1775. Nov. for the occupation of Canada, took no seasonable care to supply the places of his men as their time of enlistment expired.
November 17th (search for this): chapter 14
Chapter 54: The siege of Quebec. November—December, 1775. The day before Montgomery entered Montreal, Chap. LIV.} 1775 Nov. Carleton, with more than a hundred regulars and Canadians, embarked on board some small vessels in the port to descend to Quebec. He was detained in the river for several days by contrary winds, and moreover he found the St. Lawrence, near the mouth of the Sorel, guarded by continental troops under Easton. On the seventeenth of November, Prescott, the brigadier who had so lately treated Allen with insolent cruelty, surrendered the flotilla of eleven sail with all the soldiers, sailors, and stores on board; but in the darkest hour of the previous night, Carleton, entering a small boat in the disguise of a peasant, had been safely paddled through the islands that lie opposite the Sorel. Touching as a fugitive at Trois Rivieres, he arrived on the nineteenth at Quebec, where his presence diffused joy and confidence among the loyal. Thus far he had s
December (search for this): chapter 14
ee hundred troops; and on the third day of De- Dec. cember, at Point aux Trembles, made a junction inished, a flag of truce was Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. again sent towards the wall with letters for thtress be taken the Canadians Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. would enter heartily into the Union and send that Morgan's quarters, and ad- Chap. LIV.} 1775 Dec. dressed them with spirit; after which a councilhole line of their defences. Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. Colonel James Livingston, with less than two hu entered the undefended bar- Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. rier, passing on between the rock and the pickee discharged them with dead- Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. ly aim. Montgomery, his aid Macpherson, the youle space between the river Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec.beach and the precipice. Near this spot Arnold moment for it soon went by; Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. though some few escaped, passing over the shoaluth, as spotless as the new- Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. fallen snow which was his winding sheet; full o[1 more...]
December 31st (search for this): chapter 14
e the number of the besiegers. Quick of perception, of a hopeful temperament, and impatient of delay, Montgomery saw at a glance his difficulties, and yet thought there was a fair prospect of success. He could not expect it from a siege, for he had no battering train; nor by investing Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. the place, which had provisions for eight months; there could therefore be no hope of its capture but by storm, and as the engagements of the New England men ended with the thirty first of December, the assault must be made within twenty six days. He grieved for the loss of life that might ensue, but his decision was prompt and unchanging. The works of the lower town were the weakest; these he thought it possible to carry, and then the favor of the inhabitants in the upper town, their concern for their property, the unwarlike character of the garrison, the small military ability of Carleton, offered chances of victory. The first act of Montgomery was a demand for the surre
1775 AD (search for this): chapter 14
efore Montgomery entered Montreal, Chap. LIV.} 1775 Nov. Carleton, with more than a hundred regularurces as a military chief; but his Chap. LIV.} 1775. Nov. humane disposition, his caution, his pridtinental congress, which was eager Chap. LIV.} 1775. Nov. for the occupation of Canada, took no sea battering train; nor by investing Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. the place, which had provisions for eightlion at Morgan's quarters, and ad- Chap. LIV.} 1775 Dec. dressed them with spirit; after which a co the whole line of their defences. Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. Colonel James Livingston, with less than t that entered the undefended bar- Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. rier, passing on between the rock and thernsfare discharged them with dead- Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. ly aim. Montgomery, his aid Macpherson, tt little space between the river Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec.beach and the precipice. Near this spot Aut the moment for it soon went by; Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. though some few escaped, passing over the[3 more...]
December, 1775 AD (search for this): chapter 14
Chapter 54: The siege of Quebec. November—December, 1775. The day before Montgomery entered Montreal, Chap. LIV.} 1775 Nov. Carleton, with more than a hundred regulars and Canadians, embarked on board some small vessels in the port to descend to Quebec. He was detained in the river for several days by contrary winds, and moreover he found the St. Lawrence, near the mouth of the Sorel, guarded by continental troops under Easton. On the seventeenth of November, Prescott, the brigadier who had so lately treated Allen with insolent cruelty, surrendered the flotilla of eleven sail with all the soldiers, sailors, and stores on board; but in the darkest hour of the previous night, Carleton, entering a small boat in the disguise of a peasant, had been safely paddled through the islands that lie opposite the Sorel. Touching as a fugitive at Trois Rivieres, he arrived on the nineteenth at Quebec, where his presence diffused joy and confidence among the loyal. Thus far he had sh
Allen (search for this): chapter 14
Quebec. November—December, 1775. The day before Montgomery entered Montreal, Chap. LIV.} 1775 Nov. Carleton, with more than a hundred regulars and Canadians, embarked on board some small vessels in the port to descend to Quebec. He was detained in the river for several days by contrary winds, and moreover he found the St. Lawrence, near the mouth of the Sorel, guarded by continental troops under Easton. On the seventeenth of November, Prescott, the brigadier who had so lately treated Allen with insolent cruelty, surrendered the flotilla of eleven sail with all the soldiers, sailors, and stores on board; but in the darkest hour of the previous night, Carleton, entering a small boat in the disguise of a peasant, had been safely paddled through the islands that lie opposite the Sorel. Touching as a fugitive at Trois Rivieres, he arrived on the nineteenth at Quebec, where his presence diffused joy and confidence among the loyal. Thus far he had shown great poverty of resources
Americans (search for this): chapter 14
arrison at once, along the whole line of their defences. Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec. Colonel James Livingston, with less than two hundred Canadians, was to attract attention by appearing before St. John's gate, on the southwest; while a company of Americans under Brown was to feign a movement on Cape Diamond, where the wall faces south by west, and from that high ground, at the proper time, were to fire a rocket, as the signal for beginning the real attacks on the lower town, under Arnold from there hoar with icicles. Their muskets were made useless by the storm. The glow of attack began to subside, and the danger of their position to appear. They were soon joined by Greene, Bigelow, and Meigs, so that there were at least two hundred Americans in the town; and they all fearlessly pressed on in the narrow way to the second barricade, at the eastern extremity of Sault au Matelot street, where the defences extended from the rock to the river. Under the direction of Greene, heroic effor
Arnold (search for this): chapter 14
Dec. cember, at Point aux Trembles, made a junction with Arnold. The famine-proof veterans, now but six hundred and seventh, a council was held by all the commissioned officers of Arnold's detachment, and a large majority voted for making an ass As the time for the assault drew near, three captains in Arnold's battalion, whose term of service was soon to expire, crentented would cease. At sundown of Christmas he reviewed Arnold's battalion at Morgan's quarters, and ad- Chap. LIV.} 177al for beginning the real attacks on the lower town, under Arnold from the west and north, under Montgomery from the south arther loss. On the northeastern side of the lower town, Arnold led the forlorn hope, which consisted of more than twice a. LIV.} 1775. Dec.beach and the precipice. Near this spot Arnold was severely wounded in the leg by a musket ball and carriton free to concentrate all his force against the party of Arnold. By his orders a sally was now made from Palace Gate, in
Barre (search for this): chapter 14
to have lost his nearest relative or heart friend. Congress proclaimed for him their grateful remembrance, profound respect, and high veneration; and desiring to transmit to future ages a truly worthy example of Chap. LIV.} patriotism, conduct, boldness of enterprise, insuperable perseverance, and contempt of danger and death, they reared a marble monument to the glory of Richard Montgomery. In the British parliament, the great defenders of liberty vied with each other in his praise. Barre, his veteran fellow-soldier in the late war, wept profusely as he expatiated on their fast friendship and participation of service in that season of enterprise and glory, and holding up the British commanders in review, pronounced a glowing tribute to his superior merits. Edmund Burke contrasted the condition of the eight thousand men, starved, disgraced, and shut up within the single town of Boston, with the movements of the hero who in one campaign had conquered two thirds of Canada. I,
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