Richard Montgomery: Rebel of 1775

by A. L. Todd

In 1775, a former officer in the British army who had retired in 1772 and took up farming on the Hudson river just above York City (pop. about 22,000) was asked by the Colonial Council to serve as a leader for his new country. He accepted, an army was quickly formed and thy proceeded up the Hudson, past Ft. Ticonderoga, Crown Point and on to Quebec. On a bitter cold evening on Dec.30, they finally tried to storm Quebec. He was killed, they lost, but by tying up the British forces foe almost a year, it kept them from sending supplies and reinforcements to Boston where General Washington had his hands full. So in a way it was a victory. It also describes the hardships of an army in severe weather.

216 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1967