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two columns; one under the immediate command of General 
Montgomery, attempted the lower town ; the other, commanded 
by General Arnold, was directed against the upper. 
The discharge of a single cannon was fatal to General Mont- 
gomery and his two aids-du-camp, and this misfortune occasioned 
the retreat of his column. General Arnold, in the mean time, had 
been partially successful in his attack, when he was wounded and 
carried off the field, and the garrison concentrating all their force 
against his column, they were hemmed in and reduced to the ne- 
cessity of laying down their arms; and many gallant officers and 
men remained prisoners of war. Happy would it have been for 
Arnold, if, instead of being wounded, he too had died, since by 
his subsequent treason at West Point, he blasted forever the glory 
of his most gallant conduct on that occasion. 
That part of the scene is chosen where General Montgomery 
commanded in person ; and that moment, when by his unfortunate 
death, the plan of attack was entirely disconcerted, and the con- 
sequent retreat of his column decided at once the fate of the 
place, and of such of the assailants as had already entered at an- 
other point. 
The principal group represents the death of. General Montgo- 
mery, who, together with his two aids-du-camp, Major M’Pher- 
son and Captain Cheesman, fell by a discharge of grape-shot from 
the cannon of the place. ‘The General is represented as expiring, 
supported by two of his officers, and surrounded by others, among: 
whom is Colonel Campbell, on whom the command devolved; and 
by whose order a retreat was immediately begun. a 
Grief and surprise mark the countenances of the various char- 
acters. 'The earth covered with snow,—trees stripped of their 
foliage,—the desolation of winter, and the gloom of night, height- 
en the melancholy character of the scene. ps 
No. 6.—Five Heaps. Oil Miniatures. 
Rourvs Kine, Senator in Congress, 1791. 
Fisuer Ames, in Congress, 1791. 
The Inrant, a Chief of the Six Nations, 1792. 
Joun Lancpon, Senator in Congress, 1791. 
Joun Brown, Senator in Congress, 179L 
