“It is the courier, George Preston!” said Dan in a whisper as the canoe swept around the bend.
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The Boy Scouts
At the Battle of Saratoga
The Story of General Burgoyne’s Defeat
By HERBERT CARTER
Author of
“The Boy Scouts Through the Big Timber.”
“The Boy Scouts In the Blue Ridge.”
“The Boy Scouts’ First Camp Fire.”
“The Boy Scouts In the Rockies.”
“The Boy Scouts On the Trail.”
Copyright, 1909
By A. L. BURT COMPANY
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I. The Camp in the Woods. 1
- II. The Missing Messages. 17
- III. The Spiked Cannon. 38
- IV. The Dam Across the Creek. 55
- V. The Suspicious Tory. 75
- VI. The Bend of the Walloomsac. 90
- VII. Clipping the Left Wing. 109
- VIII. The Night on the Road. 128
- IX. Unfurling the Flag. 148
- X. Clipping the Right Wing. 173
- XI. The Old Hut. 190
- XII. The Real Ira. 209
- XIII. The Midnight Fire. 227
- XIV. The Drawn Battle. 240
- XV. The Chance Meeting. 255
- XVI. The Bitter and the Sweet. 270
The Boy Scouts
At the Battle of Saratoga
CHAPTER I.
THE CAMP IN THE WOODS.
The sunset had brought to a close the hottest dayof the season (June, 1777). With the fading ofthe light a cool breeze came in from Lake Champlain,sweeping across the big promontory, near the foot ofwhich a single tent was pitched. As the wind rustledin the tree tops above the canvas shelter, its occupantsarose from the rude beds of fir boughs, andsought the outer air. This act revealed their number