234 Trumhull Gallery of Paintings in Yale College. 



It is not too much to say, that in the history of war, it would 

 be difficult to find a parallel event ; even in the history of Napo- 

 leon, whom mankind have agreed to view with such blind admi- 

 ration. He was at the head of a nation which had made war a 

 scientific study for ages, — a nation abounding in men at once en- 

 thusiastic and disciplined, as well as in all the munitions and equi- 

 page of war. With such means at his disposal, the success of 

 Bonaparte ought not to excite surprise. But his history offers no 

 point, when, with inferior and inadequate means, he baffled a vic- 

 torious enemy, and wrested from him, as in a moment, the fruits 

 of an arduous and successful campaign. 



No. 24. — Five Heads of Ladies. Oil Miniatures. 



Miss Ellen Custis, grand-daughter of Mrs. Washington, 1790. 



Miss Cornelia Schuyler, daughter of the General, 1791. 



Mrs. Martha Washington, 1791. 



Miss Sophia Chew, of Philadelphia, 1792. 



Miss Harriet Chew, 1792. 



No. 25. — Surrender or General Burgoyne. — October 16, 



1777. 



The conquest of Canada was, from the day of the unfortunate 

 attack on duebec, an idle dream ; it was well known that in 

 May reinforcements would arrive from England ; yet great but 

 ineffectual efforts were made on the American side ; and General 

 Thomas first, and afterwards Gen. Sullivan, were sent on with 

 very considerable forces. The small-pox and sickness, joined 

 with the efforts of the enemy to render a retreat as dangerous and 

 difficult as it was necessary. Gen. Thomas died, and the broken 

 fragments of the invaders fell back upon Crown Point and Ticon- 

 deroga ; where in the beginning of July, they were met by Gen. 

 Gates, who had been sent to assume the command of the north- 

 ern department. 



His first object was of course to obtain a return of the force 

 and condition of the army. It was found to consist of 5200 

 men, of whom about 2800 were so sick as to require to be sent 

 to the hospital, which had been established at the head or south- 

 ern extremity of Lake George ; and when these, with the num- 

 ber necessary to serve as nurses, were removed, the force remain- 



