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One or two of the men left behind escaped from the British; and when they reappeared, their complaints doubtless added venom to the leader s worm wood.

Many of the Green Mountain Boys had already been compelled to leave, for both farms and families cried aloud for attention.

Naturally, they scattered the faster now, while some of them enlisted under the rising star.

On the twenty-ninth of May, Arnold wrote, Colonel Allen has entirely given up the command ; and, though Allen still remained on the ground, ever active and ever hopeful, he made a public declaration that, until affairs were regulated and an officer appointed to hold the fortress, he would take no authority upon himself, but would give it up wholly to his rival.

28 Arnold for his part begged to be released, because he felt himself not qualified to superintend the rebuilding of Ticonderoga; but meantime his energy did not flag.