“In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!”
BEFORE HE COULD SPEAK, COLONEL ALLEN CRIED: “I ORDER YOU INSTANTLY TO SURRENDER. IN THE NAME OF THE GREAT JEHOVAH AND THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.”
Corporal ’Lige’s Recruit, p. 168.
These words sounded in Isaac’s ears like the thunder of cannon, and even while he questioned to himself if it were possible this handful of men had really captured the fortress, Ticonderoga was surrendered.
CHAPTER VIII. AN INTERRUPTION.
Nathan, who had looked upon the men under Colonel Allen much as he had Corporal ’Lige, was literally amazed by this ready submission of the king’s troops, standing silent and motionless by the side of Isaac as the garrison was paraded without arms, and the surrender made in due form.
Some days afterward Isaac learned that the spoils of war at this place were one hundred and twenty iron cannon, fifty swivels, two ten-inch mortars, one howitzer, one cohorn, ten tons musket-balls, three cartloads flints, thirty gun-carriages, a quantity of shells, a large amount of material for boat building, one hundred stand of small arms, 170 ten casks of powder, two brass cannon, thirty barrels of flour and eighteen barrels of pork.
Forty-eight soldiers were surrendered and preparations were at once begun to send these, together with the women and children, to Hartford.
Hardly was the surrender made complete when such of the troops as had been left on the opposite shore under Seth Warner, arrived in a schooner, much to the surprise of all, until it was learned that Captain Herrick, who had been sent to Skenesborough to seize the son of the governor, had succeeded in his mission without bloodshed.