On September 1775, a detachment of volunteers from the Continental Army before Boston, containing about one thousand men, paraded on the Common in Cambridge, Mass. It comprised two infantry battalions, three rifle companies, and a proper staff. It was the force destined to be led by Colonel Benedict Arnold to Quebec. The march that followed - up the Kennebec Valley and the Dead River, across the mountains, and down the Chaudiere - was one of the most extraordinary in all the history of warfare. It was also one of the bitterest and most exhausting....

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