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15. Novv the fervants of the knug of Bri- tain wereforely vexed, inarmuch as they flood in need of thofe thhigs that were found in the ibips, which the captains of the provinc- es had taken.

16. And they were filled with wrath, and lulled after revenge; for they were chaffed in theh' minds as a bear robbed of her whelps. And it came copafs, that a fea captain of the navy of the king of Britain, burned a town* that lay nigh unto the fea coafl.

CHAP. VII.

Colonels Allen and Arnold fur pr if e Ticondero^a» Subfequeiit cperaiions in Canada*

iN OW there was a ftrong hold, called in the French tongue, Ticonderoga; and there ■was a garrifon of foldiers in the hold, who '^ere the fcrvams of the king of Britain ) and


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