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"The Institute at Dormillière is the insignificant sole survivor." "I understand now your Reveillière," Chrysler said. On Saturday evening of Chrysler's first week at the Manoir, they went to the Institute.
He could not satisfy his laughter at such a basis for conquest of a continent, and it burst forth again at intervals for some time. "Nevertheless it is true, and Biblical," continued the undaunted schoolmaster. "Sicut saggittae in manu potentis, ita filii excussorum." "Breboeuf," said Haviland, who took some part with De La Lande but joined in Chrysler's amusement, "help us.
Here are men who fought at Chippewa and Lundy's Lane and Lake Erie and Chrysler's Farm, and here are some old chaps who fought long before at Plattsburg and Ticonderoga. Joseph Bonaparte, the ex-king of Spain, so like his mighty brother at St. Helena, is passing the line. He steps proudly, in ruffles and green velvet.
It was Canadian militia, with little help from British regulars, who won the brilliant victories of Chrysler's Farm and Chateauguay; and throughout the entire conflict they were the principal defence of their country.
Their Seigneur was the Hector, and their strand beheld debarking against it the boldest pirates of the French-Canadian Hellas. In Chrysler's walks he met signs of the excitement even where a long stroll brought him far back into the country.
Being in command of the advance of the army in the descent of the St. Lawrence, he was not present at the engagement at Chrysler's Farm on November 11th. At that time, in conjunction with Colonel Dennis, he was forcing a passage near Cornwall, under fire of a British force, which he routed, and captured many prisoners.
There are wooden legs and crutches and empty sleeves in that column. D'ri goes limping in front, his right leg gone at the knee since our last charge. Draped around him is that old battle-flag of the Lawrence. I march beside him, with only this long seam across my check to show that I had been with him that bloody day at Chrysler's. We move slowly over a green field to the edge of the forest.
Lawrence, had been successfully met and repulsed at Chateauguay and Chrysler's Farm, two of the most memorable engagements of the war, when we consider the insignificant forces that checked the invasion and saved Canada at a most critical time.
Two hundred years ago such houses were built in Brittany. Chrysler's glances took in with curiosity the tiny window up in the gable, the quaint-cut iron bars of the cellar openings, the small-paned sashes of the four front windows. Above the door, was the rude-cut inscription: A DIEU LA GLOIRE J.B. 1768. The fiddler drew his attention particularly, however, to the people on the gallery.
This occurred when Scott was fifteen miles in advance of Chrysler's Field, there being no body of British troops between him and Montreal, and the garrison at the latter place had only four hundred marines and two hundred sailors. Wilkinson's defense for his failure was that General Hampton had refused to join him at St. Regis for fear of lack of provisions and forage.
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