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Title: The Monthly military repository
Year: 1796 (1790s)
Authors: Smith, Charles, 1768-1808
Subjects: Military art and science Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
Publisher: New York : Printed by William A. Davis, for the author
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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ia,flufhed with their recent vidory at Bennington, ccllefted ingreat numbers to his ftandard. A fpirit of adventure burftforth in many different points of direftion. While GeneralBurgoyne was urging his preparations for advancing towardsAlbany, an enterprize was undertaken (Sept. 13) by Gen.Lincoln, to recover Tlconderoga and the other polls in therear of the Britifli army. He detached Col. Brown, with500 men, to the landing at Lake George. The Colonel con-duced his operations with fo much addrefs, that he furprizedall the out-poTcs between the landing at the north end of LakeGeorge, and the body of the Fort of Ticonderoga. He alfotook Mount Defiance and Mount Hope, the French lines,and a block-houfe, 200 balteaux, fcveral gun-boats, and anarmed PiOop, together v/ith 290 prifoners. Flowever, Col.Brown and Col. Johnfon, the latter of whom had been de-tached with 500 men to attempt Mount Independence, foundthat the rcduftion of either that pod or of Ticonderoga, wasbfvond their ability.
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^^I^^l^gs^ll?gp:^_:sijii SliffiSil^: MILITARY REPOSITORY, 257 ACTION AT STILLWATER. VTENERAL Burgoyne having at laft coUe£ted about thirtydays provifions, and a bridge of boats being conftrufted inlieu of the bridge of rafts which had been carried away byincelTant rains, his whole army croffed Hudfons river onthe 13th and 14th of September, and encamped on theheights and plains of Saratoga, with a vaft train of artillery.On the nineteenth of September, they advanced in front ofthe Americans at Stillwater. Their right wing was com-manded by General Burgoyne, and covered by Gen. Fraferand Col. Breyman, with the grenadiers and light infantry,who were pofted along fome high grounds on the right.Their front and flanks were covered by Indians, Provincials,and Canadians. Their left wing and artillery were com-manded by Generals Philips and Reidefel, who proceededalong the great road. The nature of the country preventingthe Americans from beholding the different movements ofthe Britifh army,

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