Fort Amity

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Arthur Quiller-Couch. Fort Amity

Fort Amity

Table of Contents

PREFACE

FORT AMITY

CHAPTER I

MALBROUCK S'EN VA-T'EN GUERRE

CHAPTER II

A BIVOUAC IN THE FOREST

CHAPTER III

TICONDEROGA

CHAPTER IV

THE VOYAGEURS

CHAPTER V

CONTAINS THE APOLOGUE OF MANABOZHO'S TOE

CHAPTER VI

BATEESE

CHAPTER VII

THE WATCHER IN THE PASS

CHAPTER VIII

THE FARTHER SLOPE

CHAPTER IX

MENEHWEHNA SETTLES ACCOUNTS

CHAPTER X

BOISVEYRAC

CHAPTER XI

FATHER LAUNOY HAS HIS DOUBTS

CHAPTER XII

THE WHITE TUNIC

CHAPTER XIII

FORT AMITIé

CHAPTER XIV

AGAIN THE WHITE TUNIC

CHAPTER XV

THE SECOND DISPATCH

CHAPTER XVI

THE DISMISSAL

CHAPTER XVII

FRONTENAC SHORE

CHAPTER XVIII

NETAWIS

CHAPTER XIX

THE LODGES IN THE SNOW

CHAPTER XX

THE RÉVÉILLE

CHAPTER XXI

FORT AMITIÉ LEARNS ITS FATE

CHAPTER XXII

DOMINIQUE

CHAPTER XXIII

THE FLAGSTAFF TOWER

CHAPTER XXIV

THE FORT SURRENDERS

CHAPTER XXV

THE RAPIDS

CHAPTER XXVI

DICK'S JUDGMENT

CHAPTER XXVII

PRÈS-DE-VILLE

EPILOGUE

I

HUDSON RIVER

II

THE PHANTOM GUARD

THE END

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Arthur Quiller-Couch

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Oh, it was cruel! By this time there was not a man in the army but could have taught the General the madness of it. But the General was down at the sawmill, two miles away; and the broken regiments reformed and faced the rampart again. The sun beat down on the clearing, heating men to madness. The wounded went down through the gloom of the woods and were carried past the saw-mill, by scores at first, then by hundreds. Within the saw-mill, in his cool chamber, the General sat and wrote. Someone (Gage it is likely) sent down, beseeching him to bring the guns into play. He answered that the guns were at the landing-stage, and could not be planted within six hours. A second messenger suggested that the assault on the ridge had already caused inordinate loss, and that by the simple process of marching around Ticonderoga and occupying the narrows of Lake Champlain Montcalm could be starved out in a week. The General showed him the door. Upon the ridge the fight went on.

John à Cleeve had by this time lost count of the charges. Some had been feeble; one or two superb; and once the Highlanders, with a gallantry only possible to men past caring for life, had actually heaved themselves over the parapets on the French right. They had gone into action a thousand strong; they were now six hundred. Charge after charge had flung forward a few to leap the rampart and fall on the French bayonets; but now the best part of a company poured over. For a moment sheer desperation carried the day; but the white-coats, springing back off their platforms, poured in a volley and settled the question. That night the Black Watch called its roll: there answered five hundred men less one.

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