At the fall of Montreal; or, A soldier boy's final victory

“I don’t know but that you are right, Dave. Those trees back of us cut off most of the sunlight, and a hollow like that ought to be good for at least one fair-sized trout.”

IT was a warm, clear day, and out on the broad bosom of the lake the sun shone brightly. There was a faint breeze from the west which rustled the leaves of the trees and sent an...

TO understand fully the importance of the news brought to Sir William Johnson by Blue Crow we shall have to go back a little and see what the English and Colonial soldiers were...

“IF General Wolfe has suffered a heavy defeat it means a hard blow to our cause,” observed Dave, as the two rowboats glided over the water a short distance from each other.

“We may be surrounded,” came from Raymond. “Better lie low,” and his advice was obeyed. As they scattered to the nearby rocks and bushes, Silvers moved cautiously towards the sp...

“It is going to be cloudy and windy,” answered Henry, as he began to wash up in a neighboring pool. “We’ll have to work hard for every mile we gain.”

SLOWLY an hour slipped by. To Dave it seemed an age, and more than once he peered up and down the rough rocks to see if there was any sign of friends or enemies. From a distance...

SHAMER was completely exhausted, and reaching the trunk of the tree in which Dave was perched he threw himself down to rest and regain his breath. His uniform was much torn and...

As we already know, Henry had attacked one of the Indians with his hunting knife. In a moment more both were struggling on the ground, in a close embrace which was truly desperate.

THE night passed slowly to the two prisoners confined in the narrow space of the sloop’s cuddy. No one came to speak to them, and as hour after hour went by first one and then t...

“It will be folly to turn to the river just yet,” answered Silvers. “They will be sure to hunt for us there. Let us hide in the opposite direction until the alarm is over.”

They were none too soon. The fire-boat now blazed up with increasing fury, and Henry’s coat was in a flame in two places. But the souse in the river saved the young soldier from...

The falls at this point were a grand sight, tumbling over the rough rocks that lined the gorge with a thunder which to the young soldier seemed a second Niagara. Below the falls...

A SLIGHT shower of rain was falling when Henry and Silvers, still panting for breath, followed the grenadiers and Highlanders to the Plains of Abraham, so called after Abraham M...

This was the cry which circulated around Fort Oswego one morning some weeks after Dave had reached the stronghold, in company with Raymond, Shamer, and the two hunters the party...

These soldiers were followed by others, who had scouted through the woods lining the lake shore and who declared that all the French and unfriendly Indians had left the locality.

The week to follow was an anxious one to the youth. Day after day he looked for Barringford’s return. In the meantime, he nursed his twisted knee faithfully, until that member s...

FOR the instant after Dave disappeared under the water of the river he gave himself up for lost. The fearful chill struck him to the very heart, and he could think of nothing to...

ABOUT the middle of February news came to the camp that a French soldier and two French traders had been captured at a post on Lake Ontario some twenty miles to the northeast of...

As Wolfe was dead and Monckton wounded and unable to act, the command fell upon General Murray. Under his directions the soldiers leveled the breastworks erected on the Plains o...

There was the tramping of half a dozen soldiers on the floor overhead, and then the flash of a bull’s-eye lantern. As the light reached Henry he staggered up the cedar stairs.

THE man who had been in the cellar and who had escaped, had not been caught, as one of the officers of the court-martial had intimated. But he had been heard from, and in the mo...

SO far Henry had given but scant thought to where he was going. His whole mind had been concentrated on getting away from Quebec, and from those who wished to make him suffer fo...

FORTUNATELY for Henry, the road through the timber was on a slight ridge, which the wind had swept almost free of snow. Here and there the elements had torn down branches, and e...

THE Frenchmen now began an earnest conversation in their native tongue, and they spoke so rapidly that Henry could understand little of what was being said. But he knew that the...

IT was not long after he was lost in the snow, that Dave heard news from Quebec that disheartened him greatly. This was that Henry had been arrested for stealing and was likely...

On Dave’s breast was a mass of small stones, dirt, and snow, and it was with difficulty that he managed to sit up. Then he discovered that one leg was held down tightly by a bra...

DAVE and Barringford had found quarters with some rangers down near the river front, and here the two remained day after day, each wondering what they had best do next.

All told, General Murray had lost, in killed, wounded and missing, about a thousand men, or one-third of his force, while the loss to the enemy was estimated at about the same....

AUGUST of the year 1760 found General Amherst at Oswego with a force of ten thousand men, consisting of royal grenadiers, Colonial militia and rangers and volunteers. To this bo...

The shock came so quickly that he hardly realized what was happening before he was under water, and somebody seemed to be doing his best to stand on the young soldier’s shoulders.

“They will be foolish if they don’t,” said the young soldier. “With a combined army of seventeen thousand men to draw on we can knock Montreal higher than a kite if we start in...