In September 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of 1,100 Continental Army troops on an expedition from Cambridge in the Province of Massachusetts Bay to
Marker commemorating the Arnold Trail to Quebec, the "Great Carrying Place" on the Kennebec River in Caratunk, Maine
Commemorative marker in Eustis, Maine
A 1776 mezzotint of Benedict Arnold by Thomas Hart
Daniel Morgan, by Charles Willson Peale
Invasion of Quebec (1775)
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The Invasion of Quebec was the first major military initiative by the newly formed Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The objective of the campaign was to seize the Province of Qu
Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec
…Army troops on an expedition from Cambridge in the Province of Massachusetts Bay to the gates of Quebec City. The expedition was part of a two-pronged invasion of the British Province of Quebec, and passed through the wilderness of what is now Maine. The other expedition invaded Quebec from Lake Champlain, led…
The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775 John Trumbull, 1786
General Philip Schuyler
This painting by Benjamin West is usually identified as a portrait of Guy Johnson, although a biography of Sir William Johnson claims that it actually depicts Sir William, Guy's uncle.
Brigadier General Richard Montgomery