ubdue, the colonists.
Such means might suffice in the Old World, but were not effectual in the
New, where the war was undertaken, not for a change of masters, but for
securing essential rights.

The action at Breed's Hill, or Bunker Hill, as it has since been
commonly called, produced many and very important consequences. It
taught the British so much respect for the Americans, intrenched behind
works, that their subsequent operations were retarded with a caution
that wasted away a whole campaign to very little purpose. It added to
the confidence the Americans began to have in their own abilities. It
inspired some of the leading members of Congress with such high ideas of
what might be done by militia, or men engaged for a short term of
enlistment, that it was long before they assented to the establishment
of a permanent army.

FOOTNOTES:

[26] Charlestown. A body of American riflemen, posted in the houses,
galled the left line as it marched; therefore, by Howe's orders, the
town was set on fire.

CANADA REMAINS LOYAL TO ENGLAND

MONTGOMERY'S INVASION

A.D. 1775

JOHN McMULLEN

At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War there was a belief,
or at least a hope, among the thirteen rebellious colonies
that Canada would join them and thus enable the entire
continent to present a united front against England. Had she
done so the course of Canadian and perhaps of American
destiny would have been widely changed.

The condition of Canada was different from that of the more
southern colonies, in that it was a conquered country,
guarded by British soldiers. The great majority of the
inhabitants were of French descent; until 1760 they had been
under French rule; and it was hoped that, especially in the
Quebec Province and along the St. Lawrence Valley, the
French _habitants_ would seize eagerly on an opportunity for
revolt. An expedition was therefore planned under Generals
Montgomery and Arnold; and though it failed, so great was
the heroism of the men who attempted it that we may leave
their story to their foes to tell. The following account is
by the standard Canadian historian McMullen.

That Canada was saved to England from this, the first and
most serious of the invasions of her independent neighbors
to the south, was due chiefly to Sir Guy Carleton, the able
general then governing the Province and