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| | Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution, Vol. I., Chapter VIII. |
 | | He knew that Arnold was traversing the wilderness along the Kennebeck and the Chaudière to join him, and was then, perhaps, menacing Quebec; and he knew also that the troops under Carleton and M‘Lean were hardly adequate to defend the city, even against a smaller force than his own. |
 | | Arnold wrote to Greene and Enos, who were in the rear, to select as many of their best men as they could supply with fifteen days’ provisions, and come on with them, leaving the others to return to Norridgewock. |
 | | Arnold, with a party of fifty-five men on shore, under Captain Hanchet, and thirteen men with himself, in five bateaux and a birch canoe; pushed onward down the Chaudière to the French settlements, there to obtain provisions and send them back to meet the main forces. |
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