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to this river
,with Grand River, there to
cross Isle Perrot, and with my 'scows to bridge
the nnrrow inner channel, and thus .obtain
F,untliold on Montreal isl:wd, about twenty miles
front that city; after which, our artillery, bay-
onets, and swords, must secure our triumph, or
provide us honourable graves. -
Incloged you have a memorandum of field and
battering train:pretty well found in ammunition,
which May enable you to dismiss your own. But
we are deficient in loose powder and musket eart
ridges, and therefore hope you may be abundantly
found.

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tlie subject' of provisions, I wish I could
give favourable infOrmation. Our whole stock of
bread may in computed at about *fifteen days, and
our meat at twenty. In speaking- an the subject,
to the Secretary at War, he informed me ample
magazines were laid up. on Lake Champlain, and,
therefore, I must request of you, to order forward
two or three months' supply, by the safest route,
in a direction to the proposed scene of action. I
have submitted the state of our provisions to my
General Officers, who unarimously agree, that it
should not prevent the progress of the expedition,
and they also agree-in opinion, that if you are not
in force to face the enemy, you should meet us at
St. Regis or its vicinity.
I shall expect to hear from, if not see you; at
this place on the 9th ; and have the honour to be,
yoar obedientp:hußible. servant,
To Major-Ggliel4l. Hampton

J. WILKINSON.

FROM
,(j'EN: HAMPTON TO (BEN. WILKINSON.
'lead-Quarters, at Four'Corners, Nov. 8, 1813.
11,-1 had the honour to receives at a late
hour -last evening by Colonel King, your coin-
munication of the 6th, and was deeply
pressed with the sense of responsibility it im-
posed, of deciding upon the means of our co-
operation. The idea suggested as the opinion
of your -Officers, of effecting the junction at St.
Regis, •Wil'S most pleasing, as being most imme-
diate, until I came to thedisclesure of the amount
of your supplies of provisions: Col: Atkinson will
explain the reasons that would have rendered it
impossible for Me to-have brought more than each
man could' have caryied on his back ; and when
recollected'that in throwing myself back upon
your scanty means, I should be weakening you in
your most vulnerable point, I did not hesitate to
'adopt the opinion, afterconsulting the General and
principal Officers; that by throwing myself back on
my main depot, when all the means of transporta-
tion had gone, and falling upon the enemy's
and straining evz.;-y effort to open a communication
from Plattsburg to Cogubawaga, or any other
point you may indicate on the St. Lawrence, I
more effectually contribute to your. suc-
cess than by the junction at St. Regis. The way
in many pi-aces blockaded and abutted, and the
road impracticable for wheel earriages during the
winter; but by the employment of pack-horses, it
I am not overpowered, 1 hope to be able to pre.-
vent your starving. I have ascertained and wit-
nessed that the plan of the enemy is to burn and
consume every thing in our advance. My troops
and other means Will he described to you by Co-
lonel Atkinson. Besides the rawness and dark-
ncls, they have endured fatigues equal to a win-
ter campaign by 'she late snows and had weather,
and are sadly dispirited and fallen off ; hut upon
the subject I must you to Colonel Atkinson.
With these uteins what can be accomplished by
human exertion I wiil attempt, with a mind de-
voted to the general object of the campaign;--4
have tire honour to be, very respectfully, Sir, your
most obedient servant,
HAMPTON. •
• His Excellency Major-General Wilkinson.

1 GENERAL WILKIN3ON TO GENERAL ARMSTRONG.
Head-quarters, Froich Mills, Nov. 18, 1813.
SIR—I beg this may be considered as an appen-
dage to my official communication respecting the
action of the 110 inst. I last evening received
the enclosed information, the result of the exami-
nation of sundry prisoners taken on the field of
battle, which justifies the opinion of the surviving
General Officers who were in the engagement.—
This goes to proVe, that although the imperious
obligations of duty (lid not allow me sufficient
tune to rout the enemy, they were beaten ; the
accidental lo7s of one field piece notwithstanding,
after it had been discharged 15 or 20 times.
have also learned front ,what:has been 'considered
good authority, but I will not vouch for the cor-
rectness of it, that the enemy's loss exceeded 500
killed and wounded.
ThC inclosed report will correct an error in 'my
former communication, as it appears it was the
89th and not the 84th British regiment which was
engaged on the 11th. I beg leave to mention, in
the action• of tlni 11th, what from my severe, in-,
disposition I have Omitted. Having received in-
formation late in the day that the contest had be-
come somewhat dubious, I ordered up a reServe
of GOO men, whom I had ordered to stand by their,
arms, under Lieutenant-Colonel
,Upham, who.gal-
lantly led them into action, which terminated a
few !ninnies after• their arrival on the ground.
With great consideration and respect, I have
the -honour to be, Sir, 'your obedient bumble
Servant,

JAMES N
Hon. John Armstrong; Secrecretay at War.N ILKINSON.
• •
[Here follows a statement of the strength of the Briti;th
forces engaged io the action of the I Ith NovembCr---.1800 re-
gulars, 800 militia, 40 Indiaus—total 2170]; upwards 011300
men more than they were.