RootsWeb.com Mailing Lists
Total: 1/1
    1. [CAN-USA-MIG] Trois-Rivieres - Rev. War
    2. Betty
    3. Hello, I just went to Google to find more information on the battle at Trois-Rivieres, and I found a Google / Book which someone might be interested in: http://books.google.com/books?id=tW_eEVbVxpEC&dq=%22Trois-Rivieres+War%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s It seems to be a book, "Dictionary of Battles and Sieges" - covering all wars. Here is another on-line book which mentions Trois-Rivieres, as far as soldiers coming up there from Ticonderoga: http://www.archive.org/stream/orderlybookofnor00unituoft/orderlybookofnor00unituoft_djvu.txt This is one paragraph from the Introduction: THE Effort which Congrefs had made in the Year 1776 for the Subjugation of Canada having failed, and their Troops being wholly expelled from that Province, the Britifh Gen. Carleton turned his Attention to the imme- diate Invalion of the rebellious Colonies by Way of the .Lakes. The Provincials were collected in great Force at Crown Point, and were abfolute Matters of Lake Champlain, where the Britifh had not a fingle Veffel to oppofe them. In order to acquire a Superiority upon the Lake it was found that no lefs than thirty Veffels would be required, and thefe were to be little lefs than created. To overcome the Difficulty, fix Veffels of a large Clafs which had been built in England, were taken to Pieces and tranfported over Land, and afterwards dragged up the Rapids of St. Therefe and St. John. The Fleet which they placed at the Foot of the Lake by this flupendous Undertaking, confifted of a Gondola weighing thirty Tons, thirty Long-boats, a Number of Flat-boats of confiderable Burden, and Here is an FYI page: http://warsearch.com/topic/Trois-Rivieres Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) ( I wonder if any KIDDER men went there. I wish my CD of the 1941 "KIDDER book" was searchable. Hopefully, an updated version of the book will become available next year. )

    07/05/2009 02:56:27