General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution : : From Redcoat to Rebel / / Hal T. Shelton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Shelton, Hal T.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1994]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: The American Social Experience ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER ONE. Introduction --; CHAPTER TWO. Ancestry and Early Life --; CHAPTER THREE. Duty in the Seven Years' War --; CHAPTER FOUR. Decision for the Patriot Cause --; CHAPTER FIVE. Service in the Provincial Congress --; CHAPTER SIX. The Patriot Call to Arms --; CHAPTER SEVEN. The March to Canada --; CHAPTER EIGHT. Struggle and Success against St. Johns --; CHAPTER NINE. On to Quebec --; CHAPTER TEN. Attack on Quebec --; CHAPTER ELEVEN. Aftermath of Quebec --; CHAPTER TWELVE. Epilogue --; Appendixes --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814788868; 9783110716924
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814788868.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hal T. Shelton.

Brave, humane, and generous . . . still he was only a brave, humane, and generous rebel; curse on his virtues, they've undone this country.--Member of British Parliament Lord North, upon hearing of General Richard Montgomery's death in battle against the British At 3 a.m. on December 31, 1775, a band of desperate men stumbled through a raging Canadian blizzard toward Quebec. The doggedness of this ragtag militia--consisting largely of men whose short-term enlistments were to expire within the next 24 hours--was due to the exhortations of their leader. Arriving at Quebec before dawn, the troop stormed two unmanned barriers, only to be met by a British ambush at the third. Amid a withering hale of cannon grapeshot, the patriot leader, at the forefront of the assault, crumpled to the ground. General Richard Montgomery was dead at the age of 37. Montgomery--who captured St. John and Montreal in the same fortnight in 1775; who, upon his death, was eulogized in British Parliament by Burke, Chatham, and Barr; and after whom 16 American counties have been named--has, to date, been a neglected hero. Written in engaging, accessible prose, General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution chronicles Montgomery's life and military career, definitively correcting this historical oversight once and for all.