[808] Other contemporary American accounts are in Wilkinson's Memoirs (ch. 2); Trumbull's Autobiography (p. 34); Marshall's Washington (iii. ch. 1).
[809] Later accounts are in Cooper's Naval Hist.; Bancroft's final revision (v. ch. 4); Irving's Washington (ii. ch. 39); Lossing's Schuyler (ii. 116, 137), his Field-Book (vol. i.), and a paper in Harper's Monthly (xxiii. 726); Dawson's Battles (i. ch. 13); Arnold's Arnold (ch. 6); W. C. Watson in Amer. Hist. Record, iii. 438, 501 (Oct., Nov., 1774); Palmer's Lake Champlain (ch. 7); Wayne's Orderly-Book, where Arnold's tactics are particularly examined; a pamphlet, Battle of Valcour (Plattsburg, 1876); and Osler's Life of Viscount Exmouth. W. L. Stone in his notes to Pausch (p. 85) thinks the account by that German artillerist and that in Hadden's Journal as edited by Gen. Rogers are the best ones.
[810] A MS. draft of Brassier's survey (1762) is in the Faden collection, no. 20-1/2 in the library of Congress.
[811] Vol. i. p. 163; and for a view of the spot, p. 162.
[812] The catalogue of the Brit. Mus. additional MSS. (no. 31,537) refers to a similar map. See the map in The North American Atlas (1777). The original MS. draft of the map engraved by Faden is in the library of Congress (Faden collection, no. 21). There are maps of the lake in Wayne's Orderly-Book, and in Palmer's Lake Champlain. An elaborate survey of Lake Champlain, made in 1778-1779, one inch to the mile, is also among the Faden maps (no. 64,—the library of Congress).
[813] It was printed in the Gent. Mag., April, 1778. In the appendix of Fonblanque's Burgoyne it has the king's comments on it, and it was given in this way from a manuscript in the royal hand in Albemarle's Rockingham and his Contemporaries (ii. 330). Lord Geo. Germain's instructions to Carleton relative to the campaign are in the Gent. Mag., Feb., 1778. The Gent. Mag. (Oct., 1777, p. 472) warned the public of the difficulties which Burgoyne must expect to encounter.
[814] Comment from a British officer is in Anburey's Travels. Lecky (iv. 31) shows the way in which the army was raised. The organization of the army is explained in a chapter in Hadden's Journal. The details of the dispatching of troops are embraced in the volume "Secretary of State, 1776", War Office, London. The letter of Carleton to Germain, Quebec, May 20, 1777, expressing his chagrin at not being appointed to lead the expedition, but promising aid to Burgoyne, is printed in Brymner's Report on the Canadian Archives (1885, p. cxxxii.) with Germain's answer. Howe in New York had notified Carleton at Quebec, April 5, that he should not be able to communicate with Burgoyne. Walpole records in his Last Journals (ii. 160), "Lord George Germain owned that General Howe had defeated all his views by going to Maryland instead of waiting to join Burgoyne." There may have been a purpose to help create the impression of Burgoyne's destination, which that officer tried to spread, in professing to aim at Connecticut, when Howe in April sent an expedition, under Tryon, to Danbury, in Connecticut, to destroy stores. This was accomplished, but Wooster and Arnold pressed the returning party with vigor and inflicted a considerable loss. Wooster was killed. Congress ordered a monument to his memory (Journals, ii. 168. Cf. Deming's oration at the dedication of a monument in 1854, and Hinman's Connecticut during the Rev., 155). The contemporary accounts are Howe's despatch to Germain, and the narrative in the Connecticut Journal, April 30 (both given in Dawson's Battles, i. 217, 219); current reports in Moore's Diary, 423, 441; Trumbull's and Sullivan's letters in N. Hampshire State Papers, viii. 547, 549, 556; a letter of James Wadsworth, dated at Durham, May 1, 1777, in Trumbull MSS., vi. 94; with accounts in Jones's N. Y. during the Rev., i. 178, and Stedman's Amer. War, ch. 14. Marshall's account in his Washington was controverted by E. D. Whittlesey (N. Y. Hist. Coll., 2d ser., ii. 227). Cf. Sparks's Washington, iv. 404; Leake's Lamb, ch. xi., with a map; Stuart's Gov. Trumbull, ch. 27; Irving's Washington, iii. 47; I. N. Arnold's Gen. Arnold, ch. 7; Bancroft, ix. 346; Gay's Pop. Hist. U. S., iii. 543; Hollister's Connecticut, ii. ch. 12. For local associations see Dwight's Travels, iii.; Lossing's Field-Book, i. 407-416 (with views); Teller's Ridgefield, p. 69 (1878), with a view of the battlefield, April 27, 1777; C. B. Todd's Redding (1880, p. 47).
[815] These include the Riedesel Memoirs, Schlözer's Briefwechsel (iii. 27, 321, iv. 288), Eelking's, Deutsche Hülfstruppen (ch. 4). There is a letter from a Brunswick officer in Canada in J. H. Hering's Weeklijksche Berichten (Amsterdam,—noted in Muller's Books on America, 1877, no. 1,410).
[816] There is a contemporary broadside of it in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library, and it was printed for the English public in the Gentleman's Mag. in August. Walpole, in London, in August, records his opinion of it, "penned with such threats as would expose him to derision if he failed, and would diminish the lustre of his success if he obtained any" (Last Journals, ii. 130). The dates given to it vary from June 29th to July 4th. It will also be found in Anburey's Travels; Thacher's Military Journal; Moore's Diary (p. 454), from the Penna. Evening Post, Aug. 21; Fonblanque's Burgoyne (App. F); Riedesel's Memoirs; Hadden's Journal (p. 59); Proceedings of the Mass. Hist. Soc. (xii. 189) and N. Y. Hist. Soc. (Jan., 1872); Vermont Hist. Soc. Collections (i. 163); Niles's Register (1876 ed., p. 179); N. Hampshire State Papers, viii. 660. It instigated various burlesques (Moore's Diary, 459; his Songs and Ballads of the Rev., 167).
[817] A map by Montresor, made in 1775, showing the antecedent knowledge of the country, is given in the American Atlas.