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In 183-t lliete rminoiit men had .special l'acilities to iiil'oim themselves 

 of the date, as tlu-y had luimljered among their contemporaries eye- 

 M'itiiotses of the battle, such as Sergeant J. Thoiiijtsoti and others. 



Taking into consideration the array of authorities available to tlie 

 analyst of thai period, it seems to me a matter of regret that such an 

 industrious writer as Dr. Kingsford could not lind the time to extend the 

 field of his researches, and shoidd have taken on himself, on the slender 

 evidence he adduces, to alter the date of the assault on Quebec in 1775, 

 as given by Bancroft and other reliable historians. 



NoTK. — Since the above wa.s written, liistorical works of uiuloubted merit 

 otherwise iiave been published with Dr. Kintrsfoni's erroneous date as to Mont- 

 gomery and Arnold's assault on Quebec in 1775. There can be no doubt that the 

 enemy, nuistering at their respective headquarters very lats on the night of the 

 .'îOth December, were marching on the slumbering city at early dawn and before 

 on the olst of December, 177.'i. 



