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,io the American Congress, the first trophy of 

 the kind which that body had ever received. 



The besiegers having now received a sup- 

 ply of powder, made their approaches to the fort 

 at St. Johns with great vigor ; and the garrison, 

 consisting of between jsix and seven hundred 

 men,, of whom five hundred w^re regulars, made 

 a resolute defence, in hopes of being relieved by 

 general Garleton. That brave officer had been 

 indefiitigable in his endeavors for their relief, 

 but such was the disaffection of the Canadians 

 to the British cause, that with his utmost en- 

 deavors, he ceuld not collect more than one 

 thousand men. A colonel. Maclean had alsa 

 been very active in the cause of the British go- 

 vernment, and had taken great pains to raise a 

 regiment of the Scotch emigrants, who had not 

 yet obtained settlements in the province. Of 

 these, with some Canadians and others, the co- 

 lonel had collected a body amounting to a few 

 hundred men ; and had taken post near the 

 mouth of the river SoreL General Carleton 

 wished to join Maclean with the troops he had 

 collected at Montreal, and hoped that by such a 

 junction he should have a force suiT-cient to ' 

 raise the siege of St.' Johns. In pursuance of 

 thi^ design, he got together a body of eight 

 hundred men, consisting of the militia of Mon- 

 treal, some Canadians, a few regulars, and uorne 

 Indians ; and on October the thirty first, em- 

 barked them from Montreal, to cross the river 

 St. Lawrence and land at Longuiel. Colonel 

 Warner, v^^ith three hundred of his green moun- 

 tain boys, watched their motions, and prepared 

 for their approach. They were permitted to- 



