Note 36 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

Long was a member of the party of forty regulars detached from the 8th regiment under command of Captain Foster, with a large body of Indian auxiliaries led by Brant, which descended upon the American detachment at the Cedars, forty-three miles above Montreal, and captured the whole number (April 19, 1776). For further details of this, and the following movements, see Jones, Campaign for the Conquest of Canada (Philadelphia, 1882), pp. 54–65.

Major Gordon, who had recently been made brigadier-general, was shot from ambuscade, July 24, 1776, while returning to his headquarters well within British lines. His fellow officers were exceedingly indignant over it, and Washington appeared to deprecate the matter; although General Gates promoted the American officer involved. See Sparks, Life and Writings of Washington (Boston, 1855), iv, pp. 56–59.—Ed.