The compliment paid to the troops of Vermont by General Burgoyne, in his letter to Lord George Germain, a little before his capitulation, was to this effect, viz. That the district of the New Hampshire grants, a wilderness, little known in the last war, now abounds with the most active rebellious, and hardy race of men on the continent, who hang like a gathering storm ready to burst on my left. http://members.aol.com/chalidze/vermont.html