Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biographical Sketch of Major-General Richard Montgomery of the Continental Army, Who Fell in the Assault of Quebec, December 31, 1775 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Oct.20, 187 G.Dear Sir: By request, I prepared a brief Biographical Sketch of Major-General Richard Montgomery for the Convention of Authors and Antiquarians which met at Philadelphia to commemorate the Centennial day (July 2, 1876)of the Signing of the Declaration of our Independence. Sijice then I have visited Quebec, and have carefully examined all the localities connected with the assault of that city, December 31, 1775.To present the results of these observations, and to correct some errors fallen into on supposed good authority, I have re-written the whole Memoir, which I now present to you with the request that you will return to me the previous imperfect copy, if I sent you one. Yours very respectfully, Geo. W.Cullum, Bvt. Major-General, U.S. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.