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The plan of using the river to the utmost was an economy as well as a necessity, and I returned to my former arrangement of using batteaux for the shallow and swift waters of the upper river, connecting with the movable head of steamboat navigation.
Under an August moon Lake Erie shone as a shield of silver. Brock, with a fleet of small craft, batteaux and boats of every kind given him by the settlers, had pulled out from Long Point with 40 regulars and 260 militia for the relief of Amherstburg, two hundred miles distant. The news of the fall of Mackinaw and the official declaration of war had only reached him as Parliament rose.
He collected forty-five batteaux, each capable of transporting eighty men, and built two floating batteries of great strength and light draught of water. Fascines, gabions, carts, bales of hay, intrenching-tools, and two thousand bandages, with all other contingent supplies, were gathered, and placed under a guard of picked men.
Abercrombie, unwilling to stay in the neighbourhood of the enemy with forces which had received such a dispiriting check, retired to his batteaux, and re-embarking the troops, returned to the camp at lake George, from whence he had taken his departure.
Rosecrans's plan of campaign Approved by McClellan with modification Wagons or pack-mules Final form of plan Changes in commands McClellan limited to Army of the Potomac Halleck's Department of the Mississippi Fremont's Mountain Department Rosecrans superseded Preparations in the Kanawha District Batteaux to supplement steamboats Light wagons for mountain work Fremont's plan East Tennessee as an objective The supply question Banks in the Shenandoah valley Milroy's advance Combat at McDowell Banks defeated Fremont's plans deranged Operations in the Kanawha valley Organization of brigades Brigade commanders Advance to Narrows of New River The field telegraph Concentration of the enemy Affair at Princeton Position at Flat-top Mountain.
Recently, too, the weather had been favoring him by changing from wet to dry, so that the upper Wabash and its tributaries were falling low and would soon be very difficult to navigate with large batteaux. Very little was done to repair the stockade and dilapidated remnant of a blockhouse.
The "voyageurs" form a kind of confraternity in the Canadas, like the arrieros, or carriers of Spain, and, like them, are employed in long internal expeditions of travel and traffic: with this difference, that the arrieros travel by land, the voyageurs by water; the former with mules and horses, the latter with batteaux and canoes.
Another military road, also built by Simcoe, followed the old Indian trail through thirty-three miles of forest from York to Lake Simcoe. This shorter route to Lake Superior enabled the North-West Fur Company established by Frobisher and McTavish, of Montreal, in 1776 to avoid canoeing up the Ottawa and its tortuous tributaries. The batteaux were brought up the St.
With unremitting exertion, he had been able to transport from fort George to the Hudson, a distance of eighteen miles, only twelve batteaux, and provisions for four days in advance. The defectiveness of his means to feed his army until it should reach the abundant country below him, presented an impediment to his farther progress, not readily to be surmounted.
On the 5th of May, 1776, a council of war was held at Quebec, and it was resolved to remove the invalids, artillery, batteaux, and stores higher up the river; but, on the evening of that day, intelligence was received in the American camp, that fifteen ships were within forty leagues of Quebec, hastening up the river; and early next morning, five of them hove in sight.
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