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The Glorious Cause - The 14th Colony
In the autumn of 1775, the American rebellion reached for an entire country. Congress wanted Canada as the fourteenth colony, and sent two armies north to take it: one under the reluctant ex-British officer Richard Montgomery, the other under the restless Benedict Arnold, whose men marched 350 miles through the frozen Maine wilderness, eating shoe leather and boiling their candles into soup, until barely half were left alive.
This is the story of how that dream died in a blizzard. On the last morning of the year, Montgomery and Arnold gambled everything on a desperate night assault against…
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