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But the Boys could hardly keep their eyelids apart; and in that state of exhaustion, although as brave as any men, they might well dread a fight with an equal number of regulars.

" Anyhow, when the British had come within a mile or two, they decamped, crossed the wide Richelieu, and fell rather than lay down to sleep.

Yet not quite all of them : Preston and the regulars got within reach of the very last, wounded some, and captured two or three prisoners.

The next morning, the reveille of the invaders, and that early, was the roar of field-pieces and the rattle of grapeshot; upon which, making a futile reply with musketry, they tumbled, panting and fainting, into their boats, and pulled away south for dear life.

How they contrived to live for the next few days with out the provisions and spirituous liquors needed almost Instantaniously they did not record; but at last, with the wreck of their hopes and the ruins of Allen s prestige, they reached the forts.