ALSO IN: _R. Frothingham, History of the Siege of Boston, chapters 4-7._ _R. Frothingham, Life and Times of Joseph Warren, chapter 16._ _I. N. Tarbox, Life of Israel Putnam, chapters 7-11._ _H. B. Dawson, Bunker Hill (Historical Magazine, June, 1868)._ _S. A. Drake, Historic Fields and Mansions of Middlesex, chapter 3._ _P. Force, editor, American Archives, series 4, volume 2._ _F. Moore, editor, Diary of the American Revolution, volume 1, pages 97-103._ _B. J. Lossing, Field Book of the American Revolution, volume 1._ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1775 (August-December). Unsuccessful expedition to Canada. "The exploits of Allen and Arnold at Ticonderoga … had invited further conquests; but the Continental Congress hesitated to take any steps which might seem to carry war across the line till the Canadians had the opportunity of casting in their lot with their neighbors. On the 1st of June, 1775, Congress had distinctly avowed this purpose of restraint; and they well needed to be cautious, for the Canadian French had not forgotten the bitter aspersions on their religion which Congress had, with little compunction, launched upon its professors, under the irritation of the Quebec Act. Still their rulers were aliens, and the traditional hatred of centuries between races is not easily kept in abeyance. Ethan Allen was more eager to avail himself of this than Congress was to have him; but the march of events converted the legislators, and the opportunity which Allen grieved to see lost was not so easily regained when Congress at last authorized the northern invasion. Arnold and Allen had each aimed to secure the command of such an expedition, the one by appealing to the Continental Congress, the other by representations to that of New York. Allen had also gone in person to Philadelphia, and he and his Green Mountain Boys were not without influence upon Congress, in their quaint and somewhat rough ways, as their exuberant patriotism later made the New York authorities forget their riotous opposition to the policy which that province had been endeavoring to enforce in the New Hampshire Grants. Connecticut had already sent forward troops to Ticonderoga to hold that post till Congress should decide upon some definite action; and at the end of June, 1775, orders reached Schuyler which he might readily interpret as authorizing him, if the Canadians did not object, to advance upon Canada. He soon started to assume command, but speedily found matters unpromising. The Johnsons were arming the Indians up the Mohawk and beyond in a way that boded no good, and they had entered into compacts with the British commanders in Canada. Arnold had been at Ticonderoga, and had