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At Castleton, when Arnold asserted the command, every man 

 shouldered his musket, and prepared to return to his home ; but 

 with Allen, their leader, they knew no doubt ; they had no fear. 

 It was no common mind that enabled him, with kindred spirits, 

 on one hand, to paralyse the power of New-York, and on the 

 other, by his keen diplomacy to arrest the progress of the British 

 arms. History and posterity are beginning to appreciate Allen, 

 and to award the guerdon long and unjustly withheld. Why 

 should not the magnanimity and patriotism of New- York erect a 

 monument on the cliffs of Ticonderoga, that shall redeem his 

 name, and be a perpetual memorial of his great exploit. 



Arnold, with indefatigable efforts and zeal, had equipped a 

 fiotilla, which he commanded, and that secured the supremacy 

 of the lake ; but perpetual feuds, which beset his path, led to his 

 resignation and withdrawal from his^ position. No other event in 

 this region distinguished that memorable year, except the organi- 

 zation of the forces for the invasion of Canada. 



Congress, too late, adopted the plan suggested by Allen and 

 Arnold, of the ijivasion of Canada. An army of two thousand 

 men was assembled at Crown Point and Ticonderoga, und^er the 

 successive command of Schuyler and Montgomery, and supplied 

 with every appliance within the limited capacity of the govern- 

 ment. It embarked at these posts on the 21st of August, 1775, 

 On its impracticable and disastrous campaign. 



Greneral history amply portrays the fate of this gallant little 

 army, its preliminary victories, its final repulse, and calamitous 

 retreat. Congress, meanwhile, had pressed from the Champlaiu 

 fortresses to the utmost extent of their means, reinforcements 

 and supplies to its aid ; but the severities of a northern winter, 

 and the ravages of a loathsome disease, continued to pursue and 

 waste it, until assailed by a superior enemy, tlie American army 

 was compelled to abandon Canada. 



Crown Point was evacuated, the buildings burnt, and the mate- 

 rial not capable of removal destroyeil ; and the entire American 

 forces, with their munitions, were congregated around Ticon- 

 deroga. 



