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The engineers were under-staffed, under-manned, and
overworked. There were no Royal Engineers as a permanent
and comprehensive corps till the time of Wellington.
Wolfe complained bitterly and often of the lack of men
and materials for scientific siege work. But he 'relied
on Carleton' to good purpose in this respect a... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
CHAPTER II
GENERAL MURRAY
1759-1766
Both armies spent a terrible winter after the Battle of
the Plains. There was better shelter for the French in
Montreal than for the British among the ruins of Quebec.
But in the matter of food the positions were reversed.
Nevertheless the French gallantly refused the truce
offered... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Great Britain had a different general idea for each one
of the four decades which immediately followed the conquest
of Canada. In the sixties the general idea was to kill
refractory old French ways with a double dose of new
British liberty and kindness, so that Canada might
gradually become the loyal fourteenth colony... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
While the war went on in Europe Canada remained nominally
a part of the enemy's dominions, and so, of course, was
subject to military rule. Sir Jeffery Amherst, the British
commander-in-chief in America, took up his headquarters
in New York. Under him Murray commanded Canada from
Quebec. Under Murray, Colonel Burton c... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Murray was greatly concerned about the military strength
of Quebec, then, as always, the key of Canada. Like the
unfortunate Montcalm he found the walls of Quebec badly
built, badly placed, and falling into ruins, and he
thought they could not be defended by three thousand men
against 'a well conducted _Coup-de-main_.... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
While Murray and his lieutenants had been collecting
information for their reports the home government had
been undergoing many changes for the worse. The
master-statesman Pitt had gone out of power and the
back-stairs politician Bute had come in. Pitt's 'bloody
and expensive war'--the war that more than any other,
la... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The Indians were also an object of special solicitude in
the royal proclamation. 'The Indians who live under our
Protection should not be molested in the possession of
such parts of our Dominions and Territories as, not having
been ceded to or purchased by Us, are reserved to them.'
The home government was far in adva... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
What this ridiculous minority of grab-alls really wanted
was not a parliament but a rump. Many a representative
assembly has ended in a rump, The grab-alls wished to
begin with one and stop there. It might be supposed that
such pretensions would defeat themselves. But there was
a twofold difficulty in the way of getti... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The 'Presentment of the Grand Jury' was presently followed
by _The Humble Petition of Your Majesty's most faithful
and loyal Subjects, British Merchants and Traders, in
behalf of Themselves and their fellow Subjects, Inhabitants
of Your Majesty's Province of Quebec_. 'Their fellow
Subjects' did not, of course, include... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Montreal was most in touch with the disaffected people
to the south. It also had a magistrate of the name of
Walker, the most rancorous of all the disaffected
magistrates in Canada. This Walker, well mated with an
equally rancorous wife, was the same man who entertained
Benjamin Franklin and the other commissioners se... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Things had now come to a crisis. The London merchants,
knowing nothing about the internal affairs of Canada,
backed the petition of the Quebec traders, who were quite
unworthy of such support from men of real business probity
and knowledge. The magisterial faction in Canada advertised
their side of the case all over t... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The original number is one of the curiosities of journalism.
The publishers felt tolerably sure of having what was
then considered a good deal of recent news for their
three hundred readers during the open season. But, knowing
that the supply would be both short and stale in winter,
they held out prospects of a Canadi... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
GOVERNOR CARLETON
1766-1774
The twelve years of Carleton's first administration
naturally fall into three distinct periods of equal
length. During the first he was busily employed settling
as many difficulties as he could, examining the general
state of the country, and gradually growing into the
change that was deve... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The Jesuits pressed their claims for recognition, for
their original estates, and for compensation. But their
order had fallen on evil days all over the world. It was
not popular even in Canada. And the arrangement was that
while the existing members were to be treated with every
consideration the Society itself was t... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The Walker affair was an instance of a bad case in which
the law at last worked well. But there were many others
in which it did not. What with the _Coutume de Paris_,
which is still quoted in the province of Quebec; the
other complexities of the old French law; the doubtful
meanings drawn from the capitulation, the t... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
In 1770 Carleton sailed for England. He carried a good
deal of hard-won experience with him, both on this point
and on many others. He went home with a strong opinion
not only against an assembly but against any immediate
attempts at Anglicization in any form. The royal
instructions that had accompanied his commission... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
He had, however, two great satisfactions. He was
represented at Quebec by a most steadfast lieutenant,
the quiet, alert, discreet, and determined Cramahe; and
he was leaving Canada after having given proof of a
disinterestedness which was worthy of the elder Pitt
himself. When Pitt became Paymaster-General of England
... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The Quebec Act of 1774--the Magna Charta of the
French-Canadian race--finally passed the House of Lords
on the 18th of June. The general idea of the Act was to
reverse the unsuccessful policy of ultimate assimilation
with the other American colonies by making Canada a
distinctly French-Canadian province. The Maritime ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
In some ways the Act did, in other ways it did not, fulfil
the objects of its framers. It was undoubtedly a generous
concession to the leading French Canadians. It did help
to keep Canada both British and Canadian. And it did open
the way for what ought to have been a crushing attack on
the American revolutionary forc... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
It is easy to be wise after the event and hard to follow
any counsel of perfection. But it must always be a subject
of keen, if unavailing, regret that the French Canadians
were not guaranteed their own way of life, within the
limits of the modern province of Quebec, immediately
after the capitulation of Montreal in 1... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
CHAPTER IV
INVASION
1775
Carleton's first eight years as governor of Canada were
almost entirely occupied with civil administration. The
next four were equally occupied with war; so much so,
indeed, that the Quebec Act could not be put in force on
the 1st of May 1775, as provided for in the Act itself,
but only bit b... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Events moved quickly in 1775. On the 19th of April the
'shot heard round the world' was fired at Lexington in
Massachusetts. On the 1st of May, the day appointed for
the inauguration of the Quebec Act, the statue of the
king in Montreal was grossly defaced and hung with a
cross, a necklace of potatoes, and a placard b... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The first moves of the three Americans smacked strongly
of a well-staged extravaganza in which the smart Yankees
never failed to score off the dunderheaded British. The
Green Mountain Boys assembled on the east side of the
lake. Spies walked in and out of Ticonderoga, exactly
opposite, and reported to Ethan Allen that... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The same Congress, however, found reasons enough for
changing its mind before the month of May was out. The
British forces in Canada had already begun to move towards
the threatened frontier. They had occupied and strengthened
St Johns. And the Americans were beginning to fear lest
the command of Lake Champlain might ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Worn out by his worries, Schuyler fell ill and was sent
to command the base at Albany. Montgomery then succeeded
to the command of the force destined for the front. The
plan of invasion approved by Washington was, first, to
sweep the line of the Richelieu by taking St Johns and
Chambly, then to take Montreal, next to ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Carleton had done what he could to keep the enemy at
arm's length from Montreal by putting every available
man into Chambly and St Johns. He knew nothing of Arnold's
force till it actually reached Quebec in November. Quebec
was thought secure for the time being, and so was left
with a handful of men under Cramahe. Mon... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Brown, or possibly Allen himself, then hit upon the idea
of treating Montreal very much as Allen had treated
Ticonderoga. In any case Allen jumped at it. He jumped
so far, indeed, that he forestalled Brown, who failed to
appear at the critical moment. Thus, on the 24th of
September, Allen found himself alone at Long P... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Chambly is only a short day's march from Montreal to the
west and St Johns to the south; so its capture meant that
St Johns was entirely cut off from the Richelieu to the
north and dangerously exposed to being cut off from
Montreal as well. Its ample stores and munitions of war
were a priceless boon to Montgomery, who... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
It was the 3rd of November when St Johns surrendered.
Ten days later Montgomery occupied Montreal and Arnold
landed at Wolfe's Cove just above Quebec. The race for
the possession of Quebec had been a very close one. The
race for the capture of Carleton was to be closer still.
And on the fate of either depended the imm... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
There were sixty miles to go beyond the lake, and a badly
broken sixty miles they were, before the first settlement
of French Canadians could be reached. There was no trail.
Provisions were almost at an end. Sickness increased.
The sick began to die. 'And what was it all for? A chance
to get killed! The end of the mar... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Arnold's chance of surprising Quebec had been lost ten
days before he was able to cross the St Lawrence; and
when the habitants on the south shore were helping his
men to make scaling-ladders the British garrison on the
north had already become too strong for him. But he was
indefatigable in collecting boats and canoe... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The little flotilla of eleven vessels got safely down to
within a few miles of Sorel, when one grounded and delayed
the rest till the wind failed altogether at noon on the
12th. The next three days it blew upstream without a
break. No progress could be made as there was no room to
tack in the narrow passages opposite ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Carleton, however, was not the man to give in till the
very last; and one desperate chance still remained. His
flotilla was doomed. But he might still get through alone
without it. One of the French-Canadian skippers, better
known as 'Le Tourte' or 'Wild Pigeon' than by his own
name of Bouchette because of his wonderf... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The exultation of the British more than matched the
disappointment of the Americans. Thomas Ainslie, collector
of customs and captain of militia at Quebec, only expressed
the feelings of all his fellow-loyalists when he made
the following entry in the extremely accurate diary he
kept throughout those troublous times:
... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
There were five thousand souls left in Quebec, which was
well provisioned for the winter. The women, children,
and men unfit to bear arms numbered three thousand. The
'exempts' amounted to a hundred and eighty. As there was
a growing suspicion about many of these last, Carleton
paraded them for medical examination at ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Montgomery and Arnold had about the same total number of
men. Sometimes there were more, sometimes less. But what
made the real difference, and what really turned the
scale, was that the Americans had hardly any regulars
and that their effectives rarely averaged three-quarters
of their total strength. The balance was ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Montgomery's advance was greatly aided by the little
flotilla which Easton had captured at Sorel. Montgomery
met Arnold at Pointe-aux-Trembles, twenty miles above
Quebec, on the 2nd of December and supplied his little
half-clad force with the British uniforms taken at St
Johns and Chambly. He was greatly pleased with ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Though Montgomery wrote bunkum like the common politician
of that and many a later age, he was really a brave
soldier. What galled him into fury was 'grave Carleton's'
quiet refusal to recognize either him or any other rebel
commander as the accredited leader of a hostile army. It
certainly must have been exasperating... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
But there was a serious side. Deserters and prisoners,
as well as British adherents who had escaped, all began
to tell the same tale, though with many variations.
Montgomery was evidently bent on storming the walls the
first dark night. His own orders showed it.
HEAD QUARTERS, HOLLAND HOUSE.
Near Quebec, 15th De... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Another week passed; and Montgomery had not eaten his
Christmas dinner either in Quebec or in the other place.
But both sides knew the crisis must be fast approaching;
for the New Yorkers had sworn that they would not stay
a minute later than the end of the year, when their term
of enlistment was up. Thus every day th... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
A little after four the sentries on the walls at Cape
Diamond saw lights flashing about in front of them and
were just going to call the guard when Captain Malcolm
Fraser of the Royal Emigrants came by on his rounds and
saw other lights being set out in regular order like
lamps in a street. He instantly turned out the... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The first decisive action took place at Pres-de-Ville.
The guard there consisted of fifty men--John Coffin, who
was a merchant of Quebec, Sergeant Hugh McQuarters of
the Royal Artillery, Captain Barnsfair, a merchant skipper,
with fifteen mates and skippers like himself, and thirty
French Canadians under Captain Chabo... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Arnold's advance had begun at the same time as Livingston's
demonstration and Montgomery's attack. But his task was
very different and the time required much longer. There
were three obstacles to be overcome. First, his men had
to run the gauntlet of the fire from the bluejackets
ranged along the Grand Battery, which ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The men now called out for a lead from Morgan, who climbed
a ladder, leaped the top, and fell under a gun inside.
In another minute the whole forlorn hope had followed
him, while the main body came close behind. The guard,
not strong in numbers and weak in being composed of young
militiamen, gave way but kept on firin... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Carleton had of course kept in perfect touch with every
phase of the attack and defence; and now, fearing no
surprise against the walls in the growing daylight, had
decided on taking Arnold's men in rear. To do this he
sent Captain Lawes of the Royal Engineers and Captain
McDougall of the Royal Emigrants with a hundre... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The British victory was as nearly perfect as could have
been desired. It marked the turn of the tide in a desperate
campaign which might have resulted in the total loss of
Canada. And it was of the greatest significance and
happiest augury because all the racial elements of this
new and vast domain had here united for... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The British garrison had certain little troubles of its
own; for discipline always tends to become irksome after
a great effort. Carleton was obliged to stop the retailing
of spirits for fear the slacker men would be getting out
of hand. The guards and duties were made as easy as
possible, especially for the militia. ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
A fortnight later a plot concerted between the American
prisoners and their friends outside was discovered just
in time. With tools supplied by traitors they were to
work their way out of their quarters, overpower the guard
at the nearest gate, set fire to the nearest houses in
three different streets, turn the neares... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Three days later, on the 6th of May, when the beleaguerment
had lasted precisely five months, the sound of distant
gunfire came faintly up the St Lawrence with the first
breath of the dawn wind from the east. The sentries
listened to make sure; then called the sergeants of the
guards, who sent word to the officers on ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
CHAPTER VI
DELIVERANCE
1776
The Continental Congress had always been anxious to have
delegates from the Fourteenth Colony. But as these never
came the Congress finally decided to send a special
commission to examine the whole civil and military state
of Canada and see what could be done. The news of
Montgomery's deat... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
On the 10th of May they heard the bad news from Quebec
and increased the panic among their Montreal sympathizers
by hastily leaving the city lest they should be cut off
by a British man-of-war. Franklin foresaw the end and
left for Philadelphia accompanied by the Reverend John
Carroll, whose twelve days of dishearteni... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
On the 19th of May another disaster happened, this time
above Montreal. The Congress had not felt strong enough
to attack the western posts. So Captain Forster of the
8th Foot, finding that he was free to go elsewhere, had
come down from Oswegatchie (the modern Ogdensburg) with
a hundred whites and two hundred Indians... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The British evidence in this and many another embittering
dispute about the Indians need not be cited, since the
following items of American evidence do ample justice to
both sides. In the spring of 1775 the Massachusetts
Provincial Congress sent Samuel Kirkland to exhort the
Iroquois 'to whet their hatchet and be pre... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Thomas, the ex-apothecary, who did his best to stem the
adverse tide of trouble, caught the smallpox, became
blind, and died at the beginning of June. Sullivan, the
fourth commander in less than half a year, having determined
that one more effort should be made, arrived at Sorel
with new battalions after innumerable d... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
From St Johns the worn-out Americans crawled homewards
in stray, exhausted parties, dropping fast by the way as
they went. 'I did not look into a hut or a tent,' wrote
a horrified observer, 'in which I did not find a dead or
dying man.' Disorganization became so complete that no
exact returns were ever made up. But it... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
On one point, however, everybody was agreed. The command
of Lake Champlain was essential to whichever side would
hold its own. The American forces at Crown Point might
be too weak for the time being. But Arnold knew that even
ten thousand British soldiers could not overrun the land
without a naval force to help them. ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
On the 11th of October Carleton's whole naval force was
sailing south when one of Arnold's vessels was seen making
for Valcour Island, a few miles still farther south on
the same, or western, side of Lake Champlain. Presently
the Yankee ran ashore on the southern end of the island,
where she was immediately attacked b... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
A vexed question, destined to form part of a momentous
issue, now arose. Should Ticonderoga be attacked at once
or not? It commanded the only feasible line of march from
Montreal to New York; and no force from Canada could
therefore attack the new republic effectively without
taking it first. But the season was late. ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
But, quite unknown to Carleton, mischief was brewing in
the Colonial Office of that unhappy government which did
so many stupid things and got the credit for so many
more. In 1775 the well-meaning Earl of Dartmouth was
superseded by Lord George Germain, who continued the
mismanagement of colonial affairs for seven dis... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
On May 20 Carleton wrote a pungent reply, pointing out
the utter impossibility of following up his victory on
Lake Champlain by carrying out Germain's arm-chair plan
of operations in the middle of winter. 'I regard it as
a particular blessing that your Lordship's dispatch did
not arrive in due time.' As for the disast... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Under these circumstances Carleton was in favour of a
modified plan. Ticonderoga had been abandoned by the
Americans and occupied by the British as Burgoyne marched
south. Carleton's idea was to use it as a base of operations
against New England, while Howe's main body struck at
the main body of the rebels and broke t... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Germain had provoked Carleton past endurance both by his
public blunders and by his private malice. Even in 1776
there was hate on one side, contempt on the other. When
Germain had blamed Carleton for not carrying out the
idiotic winter siege of Ticonderoga, Carleton, in his
official reply, 'could only suppose' that H... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Wounded in the house of those who should have been his
friends, thwarted in every measure of his self-sacrificing
rule, Carleton served on devotedly through six weary
months of 1778--the year in which a vindictive government
of Bourbon France became the first of the several foreign
enemies who made the new American re... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Meanwhile every real statesman in either party had felt
that the crisis required the master-hand of Carleton.
With Germain, the empire-wrecker, gone, Carleton would
doubtless have served under any cabinet, for no government
could have done without him. But his actual commission
came through the Rockingham administrati... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
While the Asgill affair was still running its course,
and embittering Loyalists and rebels more than ever,
Carleton was suddenly informed that the government had
decided to grant complete independence. This was more
than he could stand; and he at once asked to be recalled.
He had been all for honourable reconciliation... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
At the end of March 1783 news arrived that the preliminary
treaty of peace had been signed. The final treaty was
not signed till his fifty-ninth birthday, the 3rd of the
following September. The signature of the preliminaries
simplified the naval and military situation. But it made
the situation of the Loyalists worse... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
If such was the happy lot of prisoners during the war,
what was the wretched lot of Loyalists after the treaty
of peace? The words of one of the many petitions sent in
to Carleton will suggest the answer. 'If we have to
encounter this inexpressible misfortune we beg consideration
for our lives, fortunes, and property,... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The personal factors in this perhaps insoluble problem
were still more refractory than the constitutional. All
the great questions of peace and war and other foreign
relations were settled by the mother country, which was
the only sovereign power and which alone possessed the
force to make any British rights respected... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Morris, Morgan, and Carleton were the three busiest men
in New York. Forty thick manuscript volumes still show
Maurice Morgan's assiduous work as Carleton's confidential
secretary. But Morris had the more heart-breaking duty
of the three, with no relief, day after sorrow-laden day,
from the anguishing appeals of Loyal... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Perhaps, when a slave wished to remain British, and his
case was nicely balanced between the claimants and the
counter-claimants, Carleton was a little inclined to give
him the benefit of the doubt. But with other forms of
disputed property he was too severe to please all Loyalists.
A typical case of restitution in Ca... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Thus ended one of the greatest acts in the drama of the
British Empire, the English-speaking peoples, or the
world; and thus, for the second time, Carleton, now in
his sixtieth year, apparently ended his own long service
in America. He had left Canada, after saving her from
obliteration, because, so long as he remaine... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Carleton was a man of great reserve and self-control.
But his kindly nature must have responded to the cordial
welcome which he received on his return to Quebec in
October 1786. It was not without reason that the people
of Canada rejoiced to have him back as their leader. All
that the Indians imagined the Great White ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The troubles that now dogged the great conciliator's
every step were of all kinds--racial, religious, social,
political, military, diplomatic, legal. The confusion
resulting from the intermixture of French and English
civil laws had become a great deal more confounded since
he had left Canada eight years before. The o... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Fortunately there were some good men in office on both
sides of the Atlantic. Lords Sydney and Grenville, the
two cabinet ministers with whom Carleton had most to do,
were both sensible and sympathetic. Years afterwards
Grenville, the favourite cousin of Pitt, became the
colleague of Fox at the head of the celebrated ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Commerce was another burning question and one of much
more immediate concern. In 1791 the united populations
of all the provinces amounted to only a quarter of a
million, of whom at least one-half were French Canadians.
Quebec and Montreal had barely ten thousand citizens
apiece. But the commercial classes, mostly Eng... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Foreign complications were thickening fast. The French
Revolution had already begun, though its effect was not
yet felt in Canada. The American government was anxiously
watching its refractory states, while an anti-British
political party was making headway in the South. As if
this was not enough to engage whatever at... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
But Carleton's work comprised much more than this. There
were the Church of England, the Post Office, a refractory
lieutenant-governor down in Prince Edward Island, two
royal visitors, and many other distracting matters. The
only Anglican see thus far established was at Halifax;
but the bishop there had authority over... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The second member of the Royal Family to come to Canada
was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George
III, father of Queen Victoria and grandfather of Prince
Arthur, Duke of Connaught, who became the first royal
governor-general in 1911, exactly a hundred and twenty
years later. The Duke of Kent would have gla... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Like his brother before him the duke was very fond of
dancing, and kept many a reluctant senior and many a
tired-out chaperone up till all hours at the grand ball
given in honour of his twenty-fourth birthday. Also like
his brother he was inclined to reduce his duty dances to
a minimum, much to Lady Dorchester's disma... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The two royal visits were not without their political
significance--using the word political in its larger
meaning. But the three years between them--that is,
1788-89-90--formed the really pregnant time of
constitutional development, when the Canada Act of 1791
was taking shape in the minds of its chief authors
--Carl... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The bill, postponed in 1790, was introduced by Pitt
himself in the House of Commons on the 7th of March 1791.
Sixteen days later Adam Lymburner, a representative
merchant of Quebec, whom Carleton described as 'a quiet,
decent man, not unfriendly to the administration,' pleaded
for hours before the committee of the Hou... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
No one dreamt of having what is now known as responsible
government, that is, an executive sitting in the legislature
and responsible to the legislature for its acts. Nor was
the greatest of all parliamentary powers--the power of
the purse--given outright. This, however, was owing to
simple force of circumstances and ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Carleton was in England, so the Speech from the Throne
was read by the lieutenant-governor, Major-General Sir
Alured Clarke. Half of the Upper House and two-thirds of
the Lower were French Canadians. A French-Canadian member
was nominated for the speakership and elected unanimously.
Both races were for the most part r... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
In September 1793 Carleton returned from his two years'
absence and was welcomed more warmly than ever. Quebec
blazed with illuminations. The streets swarmed with eager
crowds. The first session of the first parliament had
been better than any one had dared to hope for. There
was a general tendency to give the new con... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
When this unfortunate quarrel began (1793) Canada was in
grave danger of being attacked by both the French and
the American republics. The danger, however, had been
greatly lessened by Jay's Treaty of 1794 and was to be
still further lessened (1796) by the transfer of the
Western Posts to the United States and by the ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The Jeffersonians eagerly seized on the reports of a
speech which Carleton made to the Miamis, who lived just
south of Detroit, and used it to the utmost as a means
of stirring up anti-British feeling. Carleton had said:
'You are witnesses that we have acted in the most peaceable
manner and borne the language and cond... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The wild French-Revolutionary rage that swept through
the South now fanned the flame and made the sparks fly
over into Canada. In April 1793 a fiery Red Republican,
named Genet, landed at Charleston as French minister to
the United States and made a triumphal progress to
Philadelphia. Nobody bothered about the fundame... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
The danger was all the greater because it was no longer
one foreigner intriguing against another, as in 1775, but
French against British and class against class. Some of the
appeals were still ridiculous. The habitants found themselves
credited with an unslakable thirst for higher education.
They were promised 'free' ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
No war came. And, as we have seen already, Carleton's
last year, 1796, was more peaceful than his first. But
even then the external dangers made the governor-general's
post a very trying one, especially when internal troubles
were equally rife. Thus Carleton never enjoyed a single
day without its anxious moments till,... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
All Carleton's sons went into the Army and all died on
active service. The fourth was killed in 1814 at
Bergen-op-Zoom carrying the same sword that Carleton
himself had used there sixty-seven years before. A picture
of the first siege of Bergen-op-Zoom hangs in the
dining-room of the family seat at Greywell Hill to re... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
[Illustration: Darrin's Blow Knocked the Midshipman Down]
DAVE DARRIN'S SECOND YEAR AT ANNAPOLIS
or
Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters"
By
H. IRVING HANCOCK Illustrated
MCMXI
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. A QUESTION OF MIDSHIPMAN HONOR
II. DAVE'S PAP-SHEET ADVICE
III. MIDSHIPMAN PENNINGTON GOES TOO FAR
IV. A LITTLE ... | Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis: Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" | Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) | 1868 | 1922 | ['en'] | 12 | {'United States Naval Academy -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10045 | |
"Oh, well" growled Hallam, "why not let this animal of lower grade sleep
just where he is? Let him take what he has fairly brought upon himself!"
"That's the very question that is agitating me," declared Dave Darrin,
to whom these other members of the third class looked as a leader when
there was a point involving cla... | Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis: Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" | Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) | 1868 | 1922 | ['en'] | 12 | {'United States Naval Academy -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10045 | |
The two remaining members of famous old Dick & Co., Tom Reade and Harry
Hazelton, became civil engineers, and went West for their first taste of
engineering work. Tom and Harry had some wonderful and startling
adventures, as fully set forth in "THE YOUNG ENGINEERS' SERIES."
On this early June day when we again encount... | Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis: Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" | Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) | 1868 | 1922 | ['en'] | 12 | {'United States Naval Academy -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10045 | |
But Dave had seized the yellow man and had flung him aside.
The reader already knows what they discovered, and how it affected these
young men.
"Bring that copper-colored chink in here, if you'll be so good,"
directed Dave.
Dan and Hallam departed on the quest.
"You're wanted in there," proclaimed Dalzell, jerking a t... | Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis: Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" | Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) | 1868 | 1922 | ['en'] | 12 | {'United States Naval Academy -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10045 | |
"You lie!" hissed Dave, grasping the heathen by the collar and shaking
him until the latter's teeth rattled.
Then Dave gave him a brief rest, though he still retained his hold on
the Chinaman's collar. But the yellow man began struggling again, and
Dave repeated the shaking.
Chow Hop had kept his hands up inside his w... | Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis: Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" | Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) | 1868 | 1922 | ['en'] | 12 | {'United States Naval Academy -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10045 | |
"Shall I tell him what's up!" asked Dan cautiously.
"Yes; you'd better. Then he'll be sure to bring the necessary remedies
with him."
Dan Dalzell was off like a shot.
Chow tried to edge around toward the door.
"Here, you get back there," cried Dave, seizing the Chinaman and
slamming him back against the wall. "Don't y... | Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis: Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" | Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) | 1868 | 1922 | ['en'] | 12 | {'United States Naval Academy -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10045 | |
Then Hallam drew Darrin to one side, to whisper earnestly in his ear:
"Look out, old man, or you will get Pen into an awful scrape!"
"I shan't do it," maintained Darrin. "If it happens it will have been
Pen's own work."
"You'd better let the chink go, just to save one of our class."
"Is a fellow who has turned opium f... | Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis: Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" | Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) | 1868 | 1922 | ['en'] | 12 | {'United States Naval Academy -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10045 | |
"Hallam and I are going for a brief walk."
Then, stepping back into the front room, Darrin nodded to his classmate,
who followed him outside.
"Just come along, and say nothing about the matter on the street,"
requested Dave. "It might be overheard."
"Where are you going?" questioned Hallam wonderingly.
"Wait and see, ... | Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis: Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" | Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) | 1868 | 1922 | ['en'] | 12 | {'United States Naval Academy -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10045 | |
"I guess, Darry, you come pretty near being right," assented Hallam,
after thinking for a few moments.
By the time they reached Chow Hop's again they found that Dr. Lawrence
had brought the unfortunate Pennington to. And a very scared and
humiliated midshipman it was who now stood up, a bit unsteadily, and
tried to sm... | Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis: Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" | Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) | 1868 | 1922 | ['en'] | 12 | {'United States Naval Academy -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10045 | |
"Just this," replied Pennington, hanging his head. "I went into a drug
store and asked a clerk that I know what was the best thing for
toothache. He told me the best he knew was to smoke a pipe of opium, and
told me where to find Chow Hop, and what to say to the chink. And it's
all a lie about opium helping a sore too... | Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis: Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" | Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) | 1868 | 1922 | ['en'] | 12 | {'United States Naval Academy -- Juvenile fiction'} | PG10045 |
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