We had already learned that the batteries fronting Fort Schuyler on the northeast had been abandoned, and it was only necessary to get a view of the remainder of the British encampment.

"The commandant says that we have only to present ourselves before General Schuyler in order to be enlisted as we desire," Jacob reported.

There they procured horses, and rode at full speed until arriving at the headquarters of General Schuyler at Stillwater.

Again, who does not recollect the gentle but deep reproof given by the American General Schuyler to the English General Burgoyne, when the latter was made prisoner by the Americans under Gates?

True to this plan, Burgoyne came up Lake Champlain, took Ticonderoga (July 5), and, driving General Schuyler before him, reached Fort Edward late in July.