y from the action,
and left the garrison at leisure, after recovering from the
consternation into which they had been thrown, to direct their undivided
force against Arnold, in whose corps I then was.

The division commanded by this officer moved in files, at the common
signal for the attack, along the street of St. Roques, towards the Sault
des Matelots. In imitation of Montgomery, he too led the forlorn hope in
person, and was followed by Captain Lamb with his company of artillery,
and a field piece mounted on a sled. Close in the rear of the artillery
was the main body, in front of which was Morgan's company of riflemen
commanded by himself. At the Sault des Matelots, the enemy had
constructed their first barrier, and had erected a battery of two twelve
pounders, which it was necessary to force. The path along which the
troops were to march had been rendered so narrow by the rough cakes of
ice thrown up on the side from St. Charles, and by the works erected by
the enemy on the other, that the two pieces of artillery in the battery
in front, were capable of raking with grape shot every inch of the
ground, whilst his whole right flank was exposed to an incessant fire of
musketry from the walls, and from the pickets of the garrison.

In this order Arnold advanced with the utmost intrepidity, along the St.
Charles, against the battery. The alarm was immediately given, and the
fire on his flank commenced, which, however, did not prove very
destructive. As he approached the barrier he received a musket ball in
the leg which shattered the bone, and he was carried off the field to
the hospital. Morgan rushed forward to the battery at the head of his
company, and received from one of the pieces, almost at its mouth, a
discharge of grape shot which killed only one man. A few rifles were
immediately fired into the embrazures, by which a British soldier was
wounded in the head, and the barricade being instantly mounted with the
aid of the ladders, brought by the men on their shoulders, the battery
was deserted without discharging the other gun. The captain of the
guard, with the greater number of his men, fell into the hands of the
Americans, and the others made their escape.

Morgan formed the troops, consisting of his own company and a few bold
individuals who had pressed forward from other parts of the division, in
the streets within the barrier; and took into custody several English
and Canadian burghers; but his situation