Chapters (24)
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- The Letter
- To the Reader
- Chapter One: A Death in the Family
- Chapter Two: Farewell and a Call to Duty
- Chapter Three: Listen and Learn
- Chapter Four: Planting the Seeds of War
- Chapter Five: A Call to Arms
- Chapter Six: Selecting the Best Riflemen
- Chapter Seven: The Long March to Boston
- Chapter Eight: 1775: The Continental Army—From Defense to Offense
- Chapter Nine: 1775: The Order Is Given
- Chapter Ten: 1775: A Sortie Delayed
- Chapter Eleven: 1775: River-Ready Batteaux?
- Chapter Twelve: 1775: Winter in the Forest Primeval
- Chapter Thirteen: 1775: Quebec—Setting the Stage for Battle
- Chapter Fourteen: 1775-1776: Quebec—The Forlorn Hope
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
Aaron Burr – After Quebec, briefly served on Washington’s staff, was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel (January 4, 1777), spent winter at Valley Forge (1777–78), commanded a brigade at battle of Monmouth (June 28, 1778), and was critical of Washington after battle. Burr resigned from the army (March 3, 1779), opened New York law office with Alexander Hamilton (1783), appointed New York Attorney General (1789), elected to U.S. Senate (1791), ran unsuccessfully for President (1796), elected Vice President (1800), and mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in a duel (July 11, 1804). Died, September 14, 1836.
Reuben Colburn – After the Arnold Expedition reached Pointe Lévis across from Quebec, Colburn and his crew of boat builders returned to Maine. He continued to build boats and support the American Revolution throughout the war. He was later a delegate to the unsuccessful Falmouth Convention dedicated to the statehood of Maine. He was financially ruined by the War of 1812 and died September 16, 1818.
Roger Enos – Court martialed for disobeying orders and removing his command from the Quebec Expedition. The only witnesses to testify were officers who retreated with him. He was acquitted and returned to service as a lieutenant colonel, commanding the 16th Connecticut Militia Regiment that served with no particular distinction in the Hudson Valley in 1778. After retiring from the Connecticut Militia in 1780, he moved to Vermont where he was appointed a Major General in the Vermont militia. He was alleged to have engaged with the “Haldimand Cabal”—Vermont activists (including Ethan Allen)—advocating Vermont becoming an independent colony, state, country, and even part of Canada. He died in Vermont on October 6, 1808.
Hans Christian Febiger – Captured by the British in Quebec on New Year’s Eve, 1775; held as a POW until paroled in a prisoner exchange (January, 1777), promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, assigned to Colonel Daniel Morgan’s 11th Virginia Regiment (February, 1777) where together they served in the Philadelphia Campaign (summer of 1777). Febiger was promoted to colonel (September 26, 1777), he took command of the 2nd Virginia Regiment and was a key leader in major battles at Germantown (October 4, 1777), Monmouth (June 28, 1778), and Stony Point, NY where in a night attack his troops captured the entire British command (July 16, 1779). He was at the final major engagement of the war when Cornwallis surrendered the British Army at Yorktown, VA (October 19, 1781). He retired from the Continental Army (January 1, 1783), was elected Treasurer of Pennsylvania (1789), a post he held until his death. Remained a close friend of Daniel Morgan until he died (September 20, 1796).
Horatio Gates – Late in 1777 he was nominated to be the president of the Board of War but didn’t take up the task until January 1778. From that position, Gates pushed his final unsuccessful attempt to replace George Washington as Commander-in-Chief. After the war he took up politics in New York where he died in 1806.