MONTGOMERY, Richard. Brigadier General, Continental Army . Autograph letter signed ("Rd. Montgomery") to New York delegate ROBERT LIVINGSTON, Montreal, Canada, 13 November [1775]. 1 page, 4to, integral autograph address panel addressed to Livingtson in Philadelphia, evenly age-toned. Fine. MONTGOMERY ON THE DAY OF MONTREAL'S SURRENDER: "I HAVE COURTED FORTUNE & FOUND HER KIND" A highly important letter written on the day he succeeded in taking the city of Montreal. Now planning to advance on Quebec, Montgomery requests additional support from Livingston and the Continental Congress: "I have courted fortune & found her kind. I have one more favour to solicit, & then I have done. It will be absolutely necessary to throw a considerable Body of Troops into this Province as soon as the ice will bear. General [Charles] Lee shoud have this important command. Quebec if it dont fall before Winter must be attacked early in the spring before succours can arrive. However if the season remain favourable & the troops will follow me I shall lend a hand to [Benedict] Arnold. Shoud Quebec fall into our hands some post below the town will be necessary to occupy where the Channel is narrow & dangerous. There the troops strongly posted, a boom over the Channel & floating batteries with a clever fellow to command may I think baffle all ministerial attempts on this Province." Montgomery (1738-1775), who had served in the Seven Year's War at Louisburg, Ticonderoga and Montreal, had resigned from the British Army and gone to America in 1772. Settling near New York city, he married the daughter of Robert Livingston. Offered the rank of Brigadier General at the formation of the Continental Army, he was sent as second in command on the Canada invasion, but when Schuyler, his commander, suffered health problems, he became de facto commander. Making their way to Ticonderoga and up Lake Champlain, he and his men took St. Johns on 2 November and moved on Montreal, which was lightly garrisoned. The Royal Governor, Carleton, evacuated the post which was surrendered peacefully to Montgomery the day this letter was written. His campaign against Quebec in December and January, though, was to prove much more difficult, and had fatal results for him. Letters of Montgomery are quite rare; only four having appeared at auction since 1975, two from the Sang Collection (1978); the most recent example, also to Livingston, was undated and concerned a shipment of goods (Sotheby's 16 December 1992, lot 96, $9,000).
MONTGOMERY, Richard. Brigadier General, Continental Army . Autograph letter signed ("Rd. Montgomery") to New York delegate ROBERT LIVINGSTON, Montreal, Canada, 13 November [1775]. 1 page, 4to, integral autograph address panel addressed to Livingtson in Philadelphia, evenly age-toned. Fine. MONTGOMERY ON THE DAY OF MONTREAL'S SURRENDER: "I HAVE COURTED FORTUNE & FOUND HER KIND" A highly important letter written on the day he succeeded in taking the city of Montreal. Now planning to advance on Quebec, Montgomery requests additional support from Livingston and the Continental Congress: "I have courted fortune & found her kind. I have one more favour to solicit, & then I have done. It will be absolutely necessary to throw a considerable Body of Troops into this Province as soon as the ice will bear. General [Charles] Lee shoud have this important command. Quebec if it dont fall before Winter must be attacked early in the spring before succours can arrive. However if the season remain favourable & the troops will follow me I shall lend a hand to [Benedict] Arnold. Shoud Quebec fall into our hands some post below the town will be necessary to occupy where the Channel is narrow & dangerous. There the troops strongly posted, a boom over the Channel & floating batteries with a clever fellow to command may I think baffle all ministerial attempts on this Province." Montgomery (1738-1775), who had served in the Seven Year's War at Louisburg, Ticonderoga and Montreal, had resigned from the British Army and gone to America in 1772. Settling near New York city, he married the daughter of Robert Livingston. Offered the rank of Brigadier General at the formation of the Continental Army, he was sent as second in command on the Canada invasion, but when Schuyler, his commander, suffered health problems, he became de facto commander. Making their way to Ticonderoga and up Lake Champlain, he and his men took St. Johns on 2 November and moved on Montreal, which was lightly garrisoned. The Royal Governor, Carleton, evacuated the post which was surrendered peacefully to Montgomery the day this letter was written. His campaign against Quebec in December and January, though, was to prove much more difficult, and had fatal results for him. Letters of Montgomery are quite rare; only four having appeared at auction since 1975, two from the Sang Collection (1978); the most recent example, also to Livingston, was undated and concerned a shipment of goods (Sotheby's 16 December 1992, lot 96, $9,000).
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