Official Correspondence With the Department of War Relative to the Military Ope
Official Correspondence With the Department of War Relative to the Military Ope
George Izard
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I daily expect detachments, which are reported on the road from the eastward and southward; they are said to amount to about one thousand men. When they arrive, I shall break up this cantonment, leaving a garrison of invalids at Piatt's Point and Cumberland Head, and take the field near the Canadian line. Brigadier General Smith reports the enemy to be five thousand five hundred strong near Lacole. This is con- firmed by spies and deserters, making due allowance for exaggeration by the latter. ...The following is the Brigadier's report. British Force at Lacole, J 3th regiment - - 900 16th - . . . 1000 49th - - - 500 100th - - - - 800 Marines - - - - 400 Voltigeurs (at the bridge) - 650 Meuron's regiment (at Lacadie) 1000 Cavalry at Chambly - - 300 Total 5550 The last deserters add to the above, tw^o brigades of artillery, of fifteen pieces each, at Chambly. A few evenings ago, Lieutenant Colonel Forsyth, with a party of seventy riflemen, was attacked in Odeltown by two hundred of the enemy's light troops.
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