This is the fifth in a series.

Following the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in the spring of 1775 by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, they both took part in the invasion of Canada by the newly formed Continental Army. It was wrongly believed that this would convince Canada to join with the other 13 colonies in resisting Great Britain.

In September, Allen was leading a detachment near Montreal when his party was ambushed. He remembered “The enemy kept closing around me, nor was it in my power to prevent it; By which means, my…