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nsfr u' anc;t lac tad In 11'1~ ships; UDlike those hia ~ friends , tn: ,entlcmm In• the eitpedttion wlMf Hek to belittle our forlfathent, who believed them frlen Roberts' picture Is col.Orful but it I!! llsh served as guides and fl honest enough to Include the drab with saved the lives of atraDJers and the vivid, the ad with the gay and the who fell behind. Winter snows added to the miser,; , bad with the good. He shows us that all of our ances- The men were barefooted wttl;lout food. l tors were not brave, loya_ Colonists as They ate their garmentl, anytlllnf, They some would have us believe and that died ot exposure Most of them had some of us would do well to Investigate colds, pneumonia,· rheumatism. Yet they before boasting of family tradition and continued .onward, dragging at batcaux origin, He shows us that people then that were not destroyed, clutching their They crossed the Height of were not unhke people now, that hlf- musket.q, man qualities have not changed. And Land and reached Lake 'Megantlc. They this Is nothing original, passed down the Chaudiere and finalwlille perhaps the manner In which he recalls these ly arrived before Quebec, a ragged, halfstarved army of scarcely more lhan things is decidedly brilliant. When he is writing of life, habits and 600 sickly, unclothed men. It was midmanners of those early days, Robert.s Winter and severely cold. writes mo.st Interestingly. He tells ~ There they waited for the arrival of of foods, the manner of preparing them General Moptgomery and his army, reof clothing and their constiuctlon; o covering their strength and health, But dwellings, furnishings. He explains man new sickness, small-pox and pneumonia Montgomery arrived and things: the hunting of scores of an,mals developed. and birds; fishing, boating; scouting, clothed the army in the British unlwoodlore, camping, tracking; Iudian forms which he captured at Montreal. customs, religion, traditions. He writes The attack was planned and the two of many things unknown to most of American armies waited a favorable opus today, things which most of us would portunity. Finally the assault was made be hard pressed to dig out of old booi:s. on the night of Dec. 31, 1775. In t'his respect a.lone he bas made 81 A driving snow fell and the troops_ valuable contribution to American lit_, crept up the heights to the forUficaerature, collecting under one cover a. tions. They carried scaling ladders and multitude of historical facts that hav~ were coiaident that they would wrest been facC!1 with an unfortunate death the city from the English. But they ~ were met with a terrible fire of canMaine Indians Roberts displays an unusual know! non and rifles. Their own powder was edge and understanding of Maine·~ In dampened by the snow and they could dlan.s. He compares them favorably wi ~hoot but little. They were cut down Maine's settlers; Indeed, he often char like grain, their bodies burled In th_P. acterlzes them as better people. Th ever mounting snow, to lie there until Abenaki Indians he tells us, were peace~ Spring. Those brave men pushed on, ful people, victimized by unscrupulou engaging the enemy In hand to hand settlers who were responsible for mos fighting. But the odds were against of the bloodshed that followed In th them. The British were behind solid fdr- i clqltes between red and white men tlflcatlons. Their guns would not shoot. He shows how the Indians were drive Their leaders were gone, Montgomery from their land, cheated, robbed, im- killed and Arnold wounded. Their comprisoned, sold as slaves, beaten, taught rades were dead and wounded in the· to drink liquor, and drafted as fight- darkness. Plans went wrong. Many were ers by both the French and English who taken prisoner in the confu~lon and the attack failed. Their heroic march fed them with Iles. We see conditions Jn Maine just prior was in vain. to open hostilities between the Colonies Roberts' account of the expedition's and the mother country. There were progress through Maine and into Canmany, we learn, who did not fave:>r re- ada and his picture of the gallant atl iJellion: many who would not supp0~'t tack on Quebec are masterful. He makes the rebel cause until the Sons of Lib- you live with that army, in the ranks, Klux Klan of ;o that you experience everything that erty, resembliug the Ku Civil War days in some resirects, be- It did. It is a great piece of historical gan to function with tar and feathers, writing. He reveals the horrors of that fire , lashes and fists. We learn, too, trip as they have never been revealed. t hat liquor played a great part in the Reading, I found it almost hnpossible lives of these patriots, and that labor to believe that any man, writing today versus capital was one of the elements amid modern conveniences, accustomed to the case o! our civlllzation, cou.ld in the pre-war controversy. When war broke out, we meet Wash-· produce so vividly such suffering, harl!'Burr and many ship, fortitude and courage. I doubt ington, Arnold, Aaron other11 who played prominent par ts in that Robert~ could have described the the fight for freedom. We are with the march any better had he taken it with Armies encamped about Boston. We me Arnold. Inad rquate Review Washington and Arnold plan the exAs long as this review is, it does not pedltlon to Quebec and return .lo Maine and the Kennebec River to watch the men tion many of the interesting feaeon.structlon of the bateaux for the tures of "A.ru11del". It tells you nothing or the rough and ready Captain Huff, Army, of Phoebe Marvin, the game and acOn To Quebec Then it is that we begin to read eomplllihed miss who followed the army the greatest part of Roberts' story, the to Quebec and returned wi th Steve's famous but ill-fated journey of Arnold 's heart; the Rev. Mr. Hook, whose treachlittle army. About 1,000 men, including ery helped to min the expedition : Na. ~! organ's Vlrginlan11, riflemen from ta.mis, Paul Higgins, Jacataqua, HoboPennsylvania, soldiers, woodsmen and mok and other Indian friends of Steve guides from Maine and troops from s.nd scores of others. It neglects to menother New England States. left Fort tion that Roberts presents an InterestWestern, where Augusta now stands, in Ing picture of old Portland and o! othSeptember, 1775. They started up the r.r places In Maine. It falls to speak of Kennebec In four divisions, carrying hundreds of exciting little Incidents bateaux and supplies around the falls that crowd the book. To be honest, this review is sadly Inand rapids and finally reaching the Dead River In bad eonditlon. Provl81ons adequate. You had better read "Arunhad been lost and s~lled. The bad del for yourself. Robert B. Beith weather of the P'a.11 had taken Its toll of sick. Clothes were worn and the men tired. Then came a terrible rain storm which brought floods and destroyed more supplies. Colonel Enos and his troops then deserted and Steve was moved The arm held responsible.

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