CHAPTER XXIII.
FORAGING.
Eben's news was in every point correct. Gen. Schuyler had been stricken down by sickness, and Montgomery assumed command of one of the armies of invasion.
Allen went out to meet the Irish general and received a warm welcome.
Montgomery was full of praise of the plan of invasion.
Arnold and Morgan were marching through Maine to attack the citadel of Quebec, and Montgomery was to march into Canada to the westward, and after capturing Montreal and other important places, form a junction with Arnold and drive the English out of Quebec.
"That man has a great brain," Montgomery remarked, as he told Allen the plan.
"To whom do you refer?"
"Gen. Benedict Arnold."
"What has he done?"