Aboard the Mavis : it is told in this book how five boys and five girls cruise in the schooner "Mavis" about the east end of Long Island, and how, in (1880)
Markham, Richard. · New York : Dodd, Mead, and Co. · leaf 167
all about. They burned every boat on the St. Lawrence, fortwenty miles, to prevent their crossing. And when, one darknight, Arnold, eluding a man-of-war, landed his little army inWolfes Cove, and scaled the plains on which the city stood,there were three men inside her walls, to his one without.… … carletons escape. the other American army to join him. That army, led by Gen.Montgomery, had had brilliant success. It had taken Montreal,and would have taken the English commander, Gen. Carleton, THE BELLS CLANG FORTH AN ALARM. 169 had he not made his escape in disguise, in a small boat. Butby…
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