Jones, Charles Henry. History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776, from the Death of Montgomery to the Retreat of the British Army under Sir Guy Carleton. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1882. First Edition. [8912]
Black publisher's cloth with gilt spine titles, beveled edges, 9 3/4 x 7 inches, top page edge gilt, light bumps to top binding corners. Previous owner's signature on front paste-down, steel-engraved portrait of Major General Philip Schuyler by T. Kelly, after a painting by Trumbell, with tissue guard. xiv., 234 clean pp. with several plates & reproductions (counted and compete). Foxing to the frontis, tissue guard, and title page. Good. Hardcover.
"Of the military movements of the Northern frontier during the Revolution, much has been written about the brilliant campaign of Montgomery in 1775, which terminated in his untimely death on the last day of that year. Much has also been written about the disastrous campaign of Burgoyne in 1777. The same attention has not been paid to the events of the intervening year of 1776, which, although less striking in their effects, were of the greatest importance to the cause. There is not anywhere, so far as I am aware, any detailed account of that long and severe campaign...Such a history I have endeavored to give in the following pages...It was a campaign in which the Pennsylvanians of that day were deeply and anxiously interested. Not less than two thousand of their fellow-citizens were actively engaged in it..." - Preface.
The author's ancestor, Colonel Jonathan Jones, was engaged in the campaign "from beginning to end" and the discovery of his papers sparked the author's interest to research and write about it.