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the*''Amcricans, and want of information respect ' 

 ing their real numbers and strength, with the 

 lateness of the season, and the near approach of 

 the severities of an American winter, seems to 

 Irave prevented any such attempt. At the end 

 of about one month, Carleton re-embarked his 

 vrmy and returned to Canada, without making 

 any attempt for the reduction of Ticonderoga ; 

 the same day ij^eneral Gates dismissed the mili- 

 tici, and all »nilitary enterprises were terminated 

 on ln'xc Champlain for that year. 



The events of the war during this campaign, 

 had been greatly unfaA'orable to the American 

 cause and iiiterest. At the northward, sir Guv 

 Carleton lud recovered the whole province of 

 Cmada, destroyed the American fleet, and forced 

 their northc-rn army to repair for shelter to Ti- 

 co-.ideroc^a. At Nev\^ York, general Howe had 

 defeated, the Americans with great success and 

 slaughter on Long Island; driven' them from' 

 the city and island of New York, and- the ad- 

 jacent coiinties=; captivated their forts, men, and 

 mnga^ines ; made their favorite general Lee a 

 prisoner, and taken possession of the province 

 of New Jersey, and the rich country that was 

 surrounded by water in the colony of Rhode 

 Island. The on]}^ successes that had been ob- 

 tiiined b}- the American armies had been in the 

 defeat of sir Peter Parker and lord Cornwallis, 

 in their attack upon Sullivan's Islandj in the 

 harbor of Charlcstown, South Carolina ; and in 

 the action at Trenton, in Avhich general Wash- 

 ington had captivated one thousand of the Ger- 

 man troops. It every where appeared that the 

 ainnies and fleets of Britain, were superior in" 



