Arnold's Expedition to Quebec

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ARNOLD'S EXPEDITION TO QUEBEC

BY JOHN CODMAN, 2ND

SECOND EDITION

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1902

PRESS OF
THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY,
LANCASTER, PA.

PREFATORY NOTE

The author of this volume died August 31, 1897, at the age of thirty-four, leaving practically completed the work on which he had spent the last years of his life. It lacked, however, the benefit of his final revision for the press. Mr. Codman's family and friends are greatly indebted to Mr. M. A. DeWolfe Howe for advice and assistance in bringing the book to publication; and to Mr. Henry S. Chapman for the actual revision and verification of the manuscript. In all the necessary abridgment and rearrangement Mr. Chapman has made a minimum of changes in the author's original narrative. E. A. C. July, 1901.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I
The Invasion of Canada is Planned.

CHAPTER Il
Benedict Arnold

CHAPTER III
The Expedition Sets Forth

CHAPTER IV
The Ascent of the Kennebec

CHAPTER V
The March into the Wilderness

CHAPTER VI
Flood-Famine-Desertion

CHAPTER VII
Across the "Terrible Carry"

CHAPTER VIII
Arnold Saves the Remnant of His Army

CHAPTER IX
Descending the Chaudière

CHAPTER X
Before Quebec