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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 52: (search)
kness. Insubordination heightened his distress. Seeing that the battery was ill placed, he would have erected one at the distance Chap. LII.} 1775. Oct. of four hundred yards from the north side of the fort; but the judgment of the army was against him. I did not consider, said he, I was at the head of troops who carried the spirit of freedom into the field and think for themselves; and saving appearances by consulting a council of war, he acquiesced in their reversing his opinion. In John Lamb, the captain of a New York company of artillery, he found a restless genius, brave, active, and intelligent, but very turbulent and troublesome. Anxious to relieve St. John's, Carleton, after the capture of Allen, succeeded in assembling about nine hundred Canadians at Montreal; but a want of mutual confidence and the certainty that the inhabitants generally favored the Americans, dispirited them, and they disappeared by desertions, thirty or forty of a night, till he was left almost as
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 54: (search)
path along the St. Charles had been narrowed by masses of ice thrown up from the river; and the battery by which it was commanded might have raked every inch of it with grape shot, while their flank was exposed to musketry from the walls. As they reached Palace Gate, the bells of the city were rung, the drums beat a general alarm, and the cannon began to play. The Americans ran along in single file, holding down their heads on account of the storm, and covering their guns with their coats. Lamb and his company of artillery followed with a fieldpiece on a sled; the fieldpiece was soon abandoned, but he and his men took part in the assault. The first barricade was at the Sault au Matelot, a jutting rock which left little space between the river Chap. LIV.} 1775. Dec.beach and the precipice. Near this spot Arnold was severely wounded in the leg by a musket ball and carried off disabled; but Morgan's men, who formed the van, rushed forward to the portholes and fired into them, wh