Sold – Report From the Defeated American Army Before Quebec in 1776

Daniel Gano was an officer in the New York regiment that took part in the abortive American campaign to take Canada.

Autograph Letter Signed, Holland House, Headquarters before Quebec, March 3, 1776, to Richard Varick, aide to General Schuyler and later mayor of New York. “Having an opportunity by Capt. House, I think it my Duty to inform you that I am well, and with your Company before Quebec, having come from Montreal just after the unhappy attempt on Quebec – unhappy in that we lost such brave officers, who were truly an honor to their Country. But this satisfaction I have, that millions yet unborn shall revere their Heroic Characters as being some of the first that bled Fighting for the Freedom of their oppressed Country…He is certainly a young gentleman of a great genius…I had forgot to mention the general Dissatisfaction among the officers of the different choirs occasioned by the late Regulations concerning the New York Battalion. I think it will do the cause much ill, as they who have so bravely Defended their Country on this Dangerous expedition now look upon themselves degraded for their past services and we are all a coming home in a drove…”