See "New York in the Revolution," vol. i, p. 61. "_The Line,
Additional Corps, Green Mountain Boys, Major Brown's Detachment in
General Arnold's Regiment_." 244 men.
_I take great pleasure in this record. Some writers have intimated
that Brown was insubordinate at Quebec_ because Montgomery referred to
one of his friends as going beyond proper bounds in objecting to
Arnold. If so, why does Arnold permit Brown to remain in command? Some
men went home after the defeat of December 31, 1775, others fled.
Fisher says Arnold had only seven hundred men, of which the Brown
detachment is a large part,--no doubt induced to stay _because they
trusted him_.