2. Journal contenant le récit de l'invasion du Canada en 1775-1776, redigé par M. Jean B. Badeaux, printed in their Hist. Documents, 3d series. For Nos. 1 and 2 see Verreau's Invasion du Canada (Montreal, 1873).
3. Journal tenu pendant le Siège du fort St. Jean en 1776 par M. Antoine Foucher.
The principal general French history on the subject is Garneau's Histoire du Canada.
Cf. Centenaire de l'assaut de Québec par les Américains 31 Décembre, 1775. Compte-rendu de la Séance solennelle donnée par l'Institut Canadien, 30 Déc., 1875. Quebec, 1876 (Sabin, xvi. 66,997).
[648] A letter of Samuel Hodgkinson, April 27th, is in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., July, 1886, p. 162.
[649] Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev., i. 185, 189, 196; Force's Archives, 4th, v., vi.; 5th, i. Among the General Thomas papers, beside drafts of his own letters at this time, there are letters to him from Arnold (May 1, 11, 14); from Schuyler (May 17); and from Baron de Woedtke (May 11, 12, 18, 19). Some memoranda from Thomas's letters are in a collection of Letters and Papers, 1761-1776 (p. 165), in the Mass. Hist. Soc. cabinet. Cf. also Lossing's Schuyler (ii. ch. 1, 2); I. N. Arnold's Arnold (ch. 5); Read's Geo. Read, 150; Bancroft's United States (orig. ed., viii. ch. 67); Irving's Washington (ii. ch. 20; 22); Stone's Brant, i. 154.
[650] See the general narratives, and specially Sparks's Washington (iv. 56), for the capitulation; Resolutions of Congress, July 10, 1776, in Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev. (i. 258); S. E. Dawson in Canadian Monthly, v. 305; and Authentic narrative of facts relating to the exchange of prisoners taken at the Cedars, with original papers (London, 1777—Brinley Catal., ii. no. 3,967). Cf. John Adams's Life and Writings, ix. 407; N. H. Rev. Rolls, i. 477; and Force's Archives, 4th, vi. (p. 598), and 5th, i. The Agreement (May 27, 1776) of Arnold and Foster about the prisoners is in Sparks MSS., xiii. and xlv. Jones recounts the disputes arising over the fulfilment of Arnold's agreement for an exchange of the prisoners. N. Y. during the Revolution, i. 93. There is a French edition of the Authentic Narrative, by Marcel Ethier (Montreal, 1873).
[651] Sparks's Corresp. of Rev., i. 525, 531; Force's Archives, 4th, vi.; Colonel Irvine's account in Hist. Mag.; vi. 115; Life of George Read (ch. 3, with memoir of Thompson at end of ch. 2); Lossing's Schuyler (ii. 85); Marshall's Washington (ii. 362); Amory's John Sullivan; Bancroft's United States, original edition, viii. p. 415, etc.
[652] Sparks's Washington, iii. 423; Corresp. of the Rev., 211, 216, 231, 237, 239, 241; John Adams's Life and Writings, ix. 43. Letters of Sullivan, with some from Arnold during the retreat from Canada, are among the Sullivan papers (Sparks MSS., xx.). A letter from Arnold to Gates, Chamblée, May 31, 1776, is among the Gates Papers (copies in Sparks MSS., xx.). A letter of Thompson to St. Clair from Sorel, June 2, 1776, is in the St. Clair Papers (i. 367), with notes on the retreat.
[653] The are several personal records and diaries of these final months of the campaign. Dr. S. J. Meyrick, a surgeon of a Massachusetts regiment, wrote, June 1, 1836, to J. Trumbull, his recollections of the retreat, drawn up from contemporary minutes, beginning May 21, 1776 (Trumbull's Autobiography, 299).