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- mated variously from 1500 to 3000: the latter number was prob- 
ably nearest the truth. It was admitted that their loss amounted 
to at least 450 in killed, wounded, and missing ; only thirty priso- 
ners, however, fell into the hands of the British, and they were 
all wounded. 
The British Annual Register of that year, admits the number 
engaged. on their side to have been 3000; and states their loss 
(from official returns) to have amounted to 1054, of whom 226 
were killed, and 828 wounded : of this number, 19 officers, inclu- 
ding one lieutenant-colonel and two majors, were killed, and 70 
others wounded. ; 
The artist was on that day adjutant of the first regiment of Con- 
necticut troops, stationed at Roxbury ; and saw the action from that 
point. 
No, 4.—Five Heaps. Oil Miniatures. 
Major General Gates, 1792. 
Colonel Wu.r1am Hott, 1792. 
Colonel Esenezer Stevens, 1791. 
Captain Tuomas Y. Seymour, 1792. 
General Joun Brooxs, 1792. 
No. 5.—Tue Deatn or Gen. Monreomery, IN THE ATTACK OF 
a Quesec.— December 31, 1775. 
The history of that part of the war of the Revolution which 
was carried on in what was called the northern department, is 
tant instruction, . So early as 1775, in the very first moments of 
the contest, it was determined to attempt the reduction of Cana- 
da, and its annexation to the general confederacy. For this pur- 
pose, a body of troops, under the command of General Mont- 
gomery, advanced by the obvious route of Lake Champlain, to 
attack the enemy at the heart, not in the remote extremities Se 
Ticonderoga, St. John’s, Chambly, and Montreal, were in his 
possession on the 12th of November. Sa 
In the mean time, an enterprise was planned at Cambridge, and 
placed under the direction of General Arnold, to co-operate in the 
reduction of Quebec, which for brilliancy of conception and har- 
dihood of attempt, and for partial, ‘though not ultimate success, 
may justly be ranked with the passage of the Alps by either the. 
ancient or the modern Hannibal. 
