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nd. On the twenty seventh of July the regiment of Green Mountain Boys elected its officers; the rash and boastful Ethan Allen was passed by, and instead of him Seth Warner, a man of equal courage and better judgment, was elected its lieutenant colonel. Under the direction of Schuyler, boats were built Aug. at Ticonderoga as fae the siege Carleton planned a junction with McLean; but Montgomery sent Easton, Brown, and Livingston to watch McLean, who was near the mouth of the Sorel, while Warner was stationed near Longeuil. Having by desperate exertions got together about eight hundred Indians, Canadians, and regulars, Carleton, on the last day of October embarked them at Montreal, in thirty four boats, to cross the Saint Lawrence. But Warner, with three hundred Green Mountain Boys and men of the second New York regiment, watched their approach, and as they drew near the bank, poured on them so destructive a fire from the one four-pounder of the Americans, that they retired prec
oth, and was concentrated in the well provisioned and strongly fortified town. Yet in the face of disasters and a superior enemy, Arnold preserved his fortitude; I have no thought, he said, of leaving this proud town until I enter it in tri umph. Montgomery had required an army of ten thousand men; Arnold declared that a less number would not suffice. The chief command devolved on Wooster, who was at Montreal; and he wrote in every direction for Chap LXVII.} 1776. Jan. to Mar. aid. To Warner and the Green Mountain Boys he sent word that they must come down as fast as parties to could be collected, by fifties or even by tens; of Washington, who had no artillery for his own use, he asked not men only, but heavy cannon and mortars; to the president of congress and to Schuyler he said plainly: We shall want every thing, men, heavy cannon, mortars, shot, shells, powder, and hard money. Bills of credit had no currency; money, he reiterated, we must have or give up every thing; if we