Identifier: newenglandmagazi1891bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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the tried veteransof Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, underMajor-General Riedesel, one of the mostaccomplished officers of that martial ~^^. <^i. prince; and the re-mainder Canadians andIndians, of the latterabout five hundred. NoBritish commander hadbetter general officersthan Phillips, Fraserand Riedesel. Theknowledge of the ap-proach of such an expe-dition was sufficient tocarry consternation intothe colonies, wheredissensions betweencongress and the bestgenerals in the conti-nental army were al-ready making woundsFighting Parson. that would ncvcr heal. When the gallantPhillips scaled Mount Defiance and forcedSt. Clair to evacuate Ticonderoga, with hislittle army of two thousand half-armedmen and boys, the consternation becamea panic. St. Clair retreated into Ver-mont hotly pursued by Fraser, but atHubbardton the American rear guardunder Colonels Warner and Francischecked the pursuit, and Fraser was onlysaved from defeat by the timely arrivalof Riedesel. This affair occurred on the
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The Oldest House in Bennington, 760 BENNINGTON AND ITS BATTIE. yth of July, and after it the pursuit ofSt. Clair was abandoned and Burgoynepushed on to Skenesborough, now \\hite-hall. New Englanders felt an unjust and un-reasoning distrust of Schuyler, who wasslowly retreating before Burgoyne. Theysaw that they were menaced and felt thatthe necessity was upon them for self-defence. Burgoynes advance was slowbecause of the obstructions placed in his having been committed to it by the legis-lature, which had hastily adjourned atWindsor when alarms of war were heardon the western border. This council ofsafety was a remarkable body of twelvegood men and true, with strong common-sense ; Governor Thomas Chittenden andsagacious Jonas Fay were its master spirits.No government ever had a better secretservice. Their scouts were everywherewith argus eyes, and little occurred in any

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