AMERICAN REVOLUTION, TICONDEROGA CAMPAIGN]. ARNOLD, BENEDICT. Partial autograph letter signed ("Benedict Arnold") n.p. [Fort Ticonderoga?], n.d. [between 10 and 31 May 1775?]. 2 pages, 4to, small hole not affecting text, probably the final tow pages of a longer letter . COLONEL BENEDICT ARNOLD PROTESTS PLANS TO ABANDON TICONDEROGA A fascinating fragment. Arnold, writing to an unidentified individual (Benjamin Church, chairman of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety?), expresses his dismay over the Continental Congress's plan to abandon Fort Ticonderoga--captured on 10 May 1775 with its garrison by Arnold, commanding a force of Massachusetts militia, and Ethan Allen, at the head of a detachment of the Green Mountain Boys: "I was equally surprised & alarmed this day on receiving advice via Albany that the Continental Congress has recommended the removing of all the Cannon, stores, etc, at Ticonderoga, to Fort George & evacuating Ticonderoga intirely, which being the only [post?] of this country, leaves our very extensive Frontier open to the ravages of the enemy...& will be the Intire Turn of Five hundred Families to the North of Tie [Ticonderoga] I have written to the Congress, & given my sentiments very freely, with your Instructions to me...Col. [Ethan] Allen has intirely given up the command. I have 150 men here & expect in two or three weeks to have my Regiment compleat & believe they will be joined by a Thousand Men from Connecticutt & Lake George...." Congress' plan to abandon the fort and evacuate all military stores and cannon was dropped in a resolution of 31 May, due to oppposition throughout New York and New England. Not until the December 1775 were the Ticonderoga cannon removed by General Knox and transported overland for use in Washington's seige of Boston.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION, TICONDEROGA CAMPAIGN]. ARNOLD, BENEDICT. Partial autograph letter signed ("Benedict Arnold") n.p. [Fort Ticonderoga?], n.d. [between 10 and 31 May 1775?]. 2 pages, 4to, small hole not affecting text, probably the final tow pages of a longer letter . COLONEL BENEDICT ARNOLD PROTESTS PLANS TO ABANDON TICONDEROGA A fascinating fragment. Arnold, writing to an unidentified individual (Benjamin Church, chairman of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety?), expresses his dismay over the Continental Congress's plan to abandon Fort Ticonderoga--captured on 10 May 1775 with its garrison by Arnold, commanding a force of Massachusetts militia, and Ethan Allen, at the head of a detachment of the Green Mountain Boys: "I was equally surprised & alarmed this day on receiving advice via Albany that the Continental Congress has recommended the removing of all the Cannon, stores, etc, at Ticonderoga, to Fort George & evacuating Ticonderoga intirely, which being the only [post?] of this country, leaves our very extensive Frontier open to the ravages of the enemy...& will be the Intire Turn of Five hundred Families to the North of Tie [Ticonderoga] I have written to the Congress, & given my sentiments very freely, with your Instructions to me...Col. [Ethan] Allen has intirely given up the command. I have 150 men here & expect in two or three weeks to have my Regiment compleat & believe they will be joined by a Thousand Men from Connecticutt & Lake George...." Congress' plan to abandon the fort and evacuate all military stores and cannon was dropped in a resolution of 31 May, due to oppposition throughout New York and New England. Not until the December 1775 were the Ticonderoga cannon removed by General Knox and transported overland for use in Washington's seige of Boston.
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