Note 491 — Chapter II · (continued 2)
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Greaton writes to Heath, July 31, 1776, from Ticonderoga: "We have got out of Canada very well considering the situation we were in; but happy would it have been for us if we had retreated three weeks sooner. We are fortifying as fast as we can; the men in very low spirits." (Heath MSS., i. 306. Cf. Adams, Familiar Letters, p. 195.)