History of the United States, Vol. 10 : From the Discovery of the American Continent (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of the United States, Vol. 10: From the Discovery of the American Continent

At once Lincoln, carrying out a plan concerted with Gates, sent from Manchester five hundred light troops with out artillery, under Colonel J ohn Brown of Pittsfield, Mus achnsetts. To distress the British in their rear. In the morning twilight of the eighteenth, Brown surprised the outposts of Ticonderoga, including Mount Defiance; and, with the loss of not more than nine killed and wounded, he set free one hundred American prisoners, captured four companies of regulars and others who guarded the newly made portage between Lake Champlain and Lake George, in all two hundred and ninetyvthree men with arms equal to their number and five cannon, and destroyed one hun dred and fifty boats below the falls of Lake George, and fifty above them, including gunboats and an armed sloop. Not being strong enough to carry Fort Independence, or Tieonderoga, or Diamond Island in Lake George, the party with weir trophies rejoined Lincoln.

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