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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 MTher- 

 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 begini. 



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. 



No. 6. — Five Heads. Oil Miniatures. 

 RuFus King, Senator in Congress, 1791. 

 Fisher Ames, in Congress, 1791. 

 The Infant, a Chief of the Six Nations, 1792. 

 John Langdon, Senator in Congress, 1791. 

 John Brown, Senator in Congress, 1791. 



