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Sir, In obedience to your Order to be informed what quantity of small Arms can be carried in the ship to Quebeck (communicated to me by the Commanding Officer this day) I have examin'd every part of the ship, & am to inform you that she is so crouded with the Provisions & stores already on board, that there is not room for a single Chest of Arms in any part of her; there being between...
Date: 2 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Upon the arrival of the Men of War and the Transports from England, under the command of Capt Charles Douglas, since created a Baronet, the Rebels abandoned the seige, the 6th of May 1776, and fled with great precipitancy. Measures were immediately taken to annoy them in their flight, both by land and Water ー
The conduct and behaviour of Lieut Starke during the seige, having been approved by Sir...
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...the Rebel Fleet was attacked and destroyed in the two different engagements, in the Lake Champlain, on the 11th and 13 of October 1776 ー By this Victory the command of the Navigation of the Lake was regained; the Province of Quebec was secured from future invasions; and the Army whose operations had been impeded untill this object was attained, had now scope to act ー The Season of the year...
Date: 13 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
In the beginning of November 1775, His Majesty's Ship the Lizard with a Store Ship under her convoy arrived at Quebec, when that Province was invaded by the Rebels, with two different bodies of troops ー One of which, under the command of General Montgomery, after taking possession of Ticonderoga, and making himself Master of all the Vessels and armed craft on the Lake Champlain, entered the...
Date: 20 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
General Montgomery soon arriving from Montreal, and joining the Force under Genl [Colonel] Arnold, with a large body of Men, formed the Blockade of the Town, and began the Seige by raising Batteries against it. 2 ー But impatient of delay, and relying on the superiority of his numbers, the activity and the courage of his men, and knowing that the Garrison was weak, considering the...
Date: 31 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
A letter from you to the secretary of the Admiralty dated on board the Maria at Crown Point Octr 15th 1776 appeared in the London Gazette of Novr 23d following,2 which has only reached us now, wherein you congratulate with pleasure their Lordships upon the victory compleated on the 13th of that month by His Majesty's Fleet under your command on the lake Champlain, and proceed to claim...
Date: 8 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Captain Lutwidge having directed me when he left the Lake to report to your Excellency from time to time the State & Condition of the Vessels, In compliance therewith I send you the best I have yet been able to collect, but as from the Sickness so predominant here, hardly any of the Vessels have, for one Week together the same Men, or the same Numbers, so that this return may not be perfectly...
Date: 17 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9