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Forster's Essays, ii. 400, 435. Strahan showed greater sagacity about Gibbon's Decline and Fall, which had been declined by Elmsly. Strahan. Carrick called Strahan 'rather an obtuse man. Post, April 9 1778. See post, Sept. 19, 1777, and April 20, 1781. Johnson, I believe, at this time suffered less than usual from despondency. See ante, iii. 25, note 1.
See Boswell's Hebrides, Nov. 10, 1773. See ante, March 15, 1776, and post, Sept. 21, 1777. 'To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is justly pronounced by Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities. The Rambler, No. 93. Foote told me that Johnson said of him, 'For loud obstreperous broadfaced mirth, I know not his equal. BOSWELL.
The fighting along the Niagara River, by holding the army in that place, prevented the Americans from attacking Montreal, and enabled the British to gather a fleet on Lake Champlain, and send an army down from Quebec to invade New York state just as Burgoyne had in 1777.
He did not have the advantages of a good military education. He did not know, and he never quite learned, how to discipline and to drill his men. Actually he was quite willing to fight when the odds were not too heavily against him. He retreated only when he was compelled to do so, during the campaigns of 1776 and 1777.... On occasion he was perhaps too venturesome.
Putnam's division formed the right wing of the American army in cantonment that winter, with the center at Morristown and the left wing on the Hudson. At the opening of the spring campaign of 1777 Washington was uncertain whether the British would leave their winter quarters in New York for New England, the Hudson Highlands, or for Philadelphia.
Herr Cannabich is to take me himself to-morrow to Count Savioli, the Intendant of Music. One good thing is that the Elector's name-day is close at hand. I must now conclude, for I have still to write to my cousin. Mannheim, Nov. 4, 1777. I am at Cannabich's every day, and mamma went with me there to- day. He is very fond of me.
Burr graduated at Princeton, entered the army, rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and resigned in 1777 to study law, being admitted to the New York bar five years later.
"I inherited," said Johnson, "a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober." Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 16, 1773. See ante, i. 65, and post, Sept. 20, 1777. Pr. and Med. p. 155. Pr. and Med. p. 158. He continues: 'I passed the afternoon with such calm gladness of mind as it is very long since I felt before. His good nights must have been rare indeed.
ST. CLAIR, ARTHUR. Born at Thurso, Scotland, 1734; served at Louisburg and at Quebec, 1758; resigned from British army and settled in Ligonier valley, Pennsylvania, 1764; appointed colonel, January 3, 1776; brigadier-general, August 9, 1776; organized New Jersey militia and participated in battles of Trenton and Princeton; major-general, February 19, 1777; succeeded Gates in command at Ticonderoga, and abandoned fort at approach of Burgoyne's army, July, 1777; court-martialed in consequence, 1778, and acquitted "with the highest honor"; succeeded Arnold in command of West Point, 1780; before Yorktown at surrender of Cornwallis, and in South till close of war; delegate to Continental Congress, 1785-87; governor of Northwest Territory, 1789-1802; defeated by Indians near Miami villages, November 4, 1791; died at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1818.
All depended on the fortune of the column with which Burgoyne, on the eventful 7th of October, 1777, advanced against the American position. Burgoyne pushed forward some bodies of irregular troops to distract the enemy's attention; and led his column to within three-quarters of a mile from the left of Gates's camp, and then deployed his men into line.
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