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Alien and Warner immediately engaged in the buunefs. Allen took the 

 command, and Warner raifed a body of excellent troops in the vicinity of 

 iSenninglon, and both marched againft Ticonderoga. They furprifed and 

 took that fortrefs on the morninf; of the tenth of May ; and Warner was 

 fent the Tame day with a detachment ot the troops to fecure Crown Point. 

 He effefted the bufinefs, and (ecured the garrifun, with ail the warlike 

 llorcs, for the ufe of the continent. 



The fame year Warner received a commifTiori from Congrefs to raife a 

 regiment, to affifl in the rcduftion of Candda. He en^/aged in the bufinefs 

 with his ufual fpirit of aftivity ; raifed his re<;im>;iit chiclly amonj his old 

 acq'iintance and friends, the Green Mountain Roys, and joined the army 

 under ihe command of general Montgomery. The honorable Samuel Saf- 

 ford of Bennington, was his lieutenant colonel. Their regiment condutl- 

 cd with great fpirit, and acquired high applaufc, in the a6lion at Longuisl, 

 in v/hich the troops defigned for the relict of St. Johns were totally de- 

 feated and difperfed, chiefly by the troops under the command of colonel 

 Warner. The campaign ended about, the uoth of November, in thecourfe 

 of which Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Chaniblee, St. Johns, Montreal, and 

 a flset of eleven fail of rcffels hid been captured .by the American atms. 

 No man in this campaign had afted with more fpirit and enterprife than 

 Col. Warner. The weather was now become fevere, and Warner's men 

 ■were too miferably clothed to bear a winter's campaign in the fevere cli- 

 mate of Canada. They were accordingly difcharged by Montgomery with 

 particular marks of his refpeft, and the mod affeftionate thanks for their 

 meritorious fervices. 



Warner returned with his men to the New Hamplhire grants, but his 

 mind was mure than ever engaged in the caufe of his country, Montgome- 

 ry, with a part of his army, preffed on to Quebec, and on December 31(1 

 was flaio in an attempt to carry the city by llorm. This event gave an a- 

 larm to all f'oe nonliern part of the colonies; and it became neceffary to 

 raife a reinlorcernent to march to Quebec in the midfl of winter. The dif- 

 ficulty of th-; bufinefs fuited the genius afid ardor of Warner's mind. He 

 ■was at Woodbury in Connefticut when he heard the news of Montgomery's 

 defeat and death; he inftanrly repaired to Bennington, raifed a body of 

 men, and marched in the midft of winter to join the American troops at 

 Quebec. The Cdmtjaign during the winter proved extremely didrelTing to 

 the Americans ; In v/ant of comfortable clothing, barracks, and provifion, 

 moft of them were taken by the Imall pox, and feveral died. At the open- 

 ing of the Ipriiig in May 1 776, a large body of Britifh troops arrived at 

 Quebec to relieve the garriton. The .-Kmciican troops were forced to a- 

 baudou the tiluckade with circumftances of great dillrefs and confufiou. 

 Warner chofe the moft difficult part of the bufinefs, remaining always with 

 the rear, picking up the lame and difeafed, aiTiftingand encouraging thofe 

 who were the moll unable to take care of themfclvcs, and generally kept 

 but a few miles in advance of the Britifn, who were rapidly purfuingthe 

 recreating Ameiicans trom poll to poft. By lleadily purluing this conduft 

 he brought off moft of the invalids ; and with this corps of the infirm and 

 difraled he arrived at Ticonderoga, a few days alter tiic body of the army 

 had taken polf'-fliou of that poft. 



Highly approving his extraordinary exertions, the .'\merican Congrefs 

 on July 5, 1775, the day after ihey had declared Independence, refolved 

 to raife a regiment out of the troops which had fcrved with reputatioit 

 in Canada. Warner was appointed colonel, Safford lieutenant-colonel of 

 this regiment ; and moft of the other officers v/ere perfons vjho had 

 been (iiftitiguifhsd by their oppofiiion to the claims and proceedings o\' 



