e up.
And while Rogers was talking to them we heard a sharp firing in the rear
of these troops.

Rogers led us round to the left, and we met a force of the enemy who
were fighting our men, and had thrown them into confusion. We engaged
with them, and killed many. Lord Howe, with Major Israel Putnam and his
men, came up on the other side of the French, who were thus surrounded,
and almost all of them were killed or captured.

[Sidenote: LORD HOWE'S DEATH]

It was a party of some four hundred Canadians, who had been sent out to
watch us, and though they were good woodsmen, they had lost their way in
the dense forest, and had wandered into the middle of our army.

There seemed to be a great commotion among Lord Howe's men. I ran over
to them with Captain Stark; and there we saw Lord Howe stretched out on
the ground--dead.

John Stark is not a man easily stirred. I remember at the battle of
Bunker's Hill, when a man rushed up to him, and told him that his son
was killed,--which was a mistake, for he is alive at this day,--John
turned to the man and said: "Back to your post. This is no time to think
of our private affairs."

But when he saw that brilliant soldier, that man whose virtues,
accomplishments, and genial, lovable nature showed us what a man might
be, lying there, dead, he knelt down beside him, and the tears ran down
his cheeks. All of us were overcome with grief, we loved the man so
much.

Stark took his hand, bent over, and kissed his forehead.

"Good-by, my dear friend. God bless you and have mercy on us." He rose,
and I walked away with him.

"Comee, the life is departed out of Israel. I have no further faith in
this expedition. Our sun is set."

We mourned his loss a long time, and our Province raised the money for a
great monument, which was erected to him in Westminster Abbey, in memory
of "the affection her officers and soldiers bore to his command."

After Lord Howe was killed, everything fell into disorder. The army
became all mixed up in the thick woods, and was sent back to the
landing-place.

CHAPTER XI

FORT TICONDEROGA AND THE ASSAULT

The following morning the Rangers were sent to the front, to the place
we occupied the day before. Captain Stark with Captain Abercrombie and
Mr. Clark, the engineer, went with two hundred Rangers to Rattlesnake
Hill to reconnoitre the French works.

Fort Ticonderoga was at the southern end of the narrow strip of land
which lies between La