atural
Law_."

NOTE 2.

See "New York in the Revolution," vol. i, p. 61. "_The Line,
Additional Corps, Green Mountain Boys, Major Brown's Detachment in
General Arnold's Regiment_." 244 men.

_I take great pleasure in this record. Some writers have intimated
that Brown was insubordinate at Quebec_ because Montgomery referred to
one of his friends as going beyond proper bounds in objecting to
Arnold. If so, why does Arnold permit Brown to remain in command? Some
men went home after the defeat of December 31, 1775, others fled.
Fisher says Arnold had only seven hundred men, of which the Brown
detachment is a large part,--no doubt induced to stay _because they
trusted him_.

NOTE 3.

Smith's History of Pittsfield, 1734-1800, p. 271:--

_To the Honorable Horatio Gates, Esq., Major-General in the Army
of the United States of America, commanding at Albany_.

Humbly sheweth, that, in the month of February last, Brig.-Gen.
Arnold transmitted to the honorable Continental Congress, an
unjustifiable, false, wicked, and malicious accusation against
me, and my character as an officer in their service, at the time
when I was under his immediate command; that, had there been the
least ground for such an accusation, the author thereof had it in
his power--indeed, it was his duty--to have me brought to a fair
trial by a general court-martial in the country where the
pretended crime is said to have originated; that I was left to
the necessity of applying to Congress, not only for the charge
against me, but for an order for a court of inquiry on my own
conduct in respect thereto; that, in consequence of my
application, I obtained a positive order of Congress to the then
general commanding the Northern Department for a court of
inquiry, before whom I might justify my injured character; that
the said order was transmitted to your Honor at Ticonderoga, in
the month of August last; and, notwithstanding the most ardent
solicitations on my part, the order of Congress has not yet been
complied with; that, upon my renewing my application to your
Honor for a court of inquiry, you were pleased to refer me to the
Board of War.

Thus I have been led an expensive dance, from generals to
Congress, and from Congress to generals; and I am now referred
to a Board of War, who, I venture to say, have never yet take