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Identifier: magazineofamericv11stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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-sponse ; he paraded his troops before the place, but Carleton was not to bedrawn from behind his defenses; and the discontented Canadians of thegarrison dared not rebel in the presence of the British soldiery. Resortingnext to more active measures, Montgomery threw every night from thirtyto fifty shells from his five small mortars into the city; but these doinglittle damage, he erected, at 700 yards in front of St. Johns Gate, a batteryfor his five light guns and one howitzer, the platforms being cakes of ice,and the epaulment made with gabions filled with compacted snow con-gealed into a solid mass. This, too, owing to the distance and small caliberof his guns, failed of success, the battery being soon demolished by theenemys superior artillery, which kept up an effective fire upon every pointwhere troops were to be seen. On one occasion, as Montgomery was recon-noitering near the town, the horse which drew his cariole was killed by acannon ball. MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY 289
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ST. JOHNS GATE, QUEBEC. Weeks had now been spent in unavailing efforts to capture the city,biting cold and drifting snows paralyzed almost every movement, sicknessand privations were producing mutiny, and perils on every hand weregathering around the undaunted leader in that terrible campaign ; but hisnoble soul rose superior to every misfortune, and sustained him with thesame moral grandeur which inspired Marshal Ney till the last of the rear-guard of Napoleons Grand Army had escaped the pursuing foe and thedeadlier rigor of a Russian winter. In a council of war, held December 16th, it was resolved, as the only re-maining, though desperate alternative, to carry the place by storm. As thetime for assault drew near, three companies of Arnolds detachment muti-nied ; but Montgomerys firmness and address soon brought them back toa proper sense of their duty. Finally, at two oclock on the morning of thelast day of the year, the whole command was paraded, in three columns,for the last dread

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