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March To Quebec 1775 |
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Major Reuben Colburn built the bateaux and guided Benedict Arnold on the ill-fated expedition to Quebec. His story is told by Great....Grandson Mark A. York in Patriot On The Kennebec: Major Reuben Colburn And The March To Quebec 1775: His Life And Times. |
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March To Quebec By N.C. Wyeth |
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The Major Reuben Colburn House in Pittston, Maine. It is here that Arnold, Aaron Burr and the 1100 man army stayed, before leaving in 220 bateaux built here in Reuben Colburn's shipyard. |
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Arnold Pond the last lake in Maine before entering Canada. The army almost starved to death here and beyond. |
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Map of The Route. |
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Adamson's depiction of the carry around Skowhegan Falls. |
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The story was first told in fictional form by Kenneth Roberts in Arundel 1929. Roberts took certain dramatic license with his version and that downplays the major role of the Colburn family. |
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The Author. He has written two feature film screenplays including March To Quebec: The Colburns of New England. The Colburn research is credited in Benedict Arnold's Navy by James L. Nelson. |
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