Arnold's reports on the fight near Valcour's Island, Oct., 1776, are dated Oct. 12 (to Gates) and Oct. 15 (to Schuyler).[807] Waterbury's account to Congress, Oct. 24, is in Dawson (i. p. 173) and in _Hadden's Journal_ (App.). Gen. Maxwell gave no very flattering account of Arnold's manœuvres in a letter from Ticonderoga, Oct. 20, in Sedgwick's _Livingston_ (p. 209).[808] On the English side, Carleton's despatch, Oct. 14, and Capt. Pringle's, are in Dawson (pp. 174, 175). The Hanau artillerist Pausch covers the fight in his journal.[809] [Illustration: ARNOLD'S FIGHT. (_Sparks's copy._) KEY: A, schooner "Carleton." B, the "Royal Savage" on shore, and burnt on the 11th of October. C, the "Inflexible." D, schooner "Maria." E, gondola "Royal Convert. F, radeau Thunderer." G, Point au Sable is forty-eight miles from Crown Point. H, The French vessels sunk here in 1759. The map of the action accompanying _Hadden's Journal_ (p. 23) is very similar to the Sparks map; and a marginal note says that the gunboats are from 30 to 36 feet long, and 10, 16, or 18 feet wide. Gen. Rogers thinks Hadden's map is based on Brassier, whose amended plate is in the _American Pocket Atlas_ (1776). Rogers objects to the view that Arnold's retreat was round the north end of Valcour's Island (instead of the route marked on the map), as has been maintained by Palmer in his _Lake Champlain_, and by W. C. Watson in the _Amer. Hist. Record_ (iii. 438, 501) and _Mag. of Amer. Hist._ (June, 1881, vol. vi. p. 414).] The earliest plan of this naval action seems to have been added to the then recently published plate of Lake Champlain, engraved after surveys by William Brassier, by order of Amherst, in 1762,[810] which, with Jackson's survey of Lake George, was published by Sayer and Bennett, in London, Aug. 5, 1776. Some copies of the map with the same date show the position of Arnold's fight of Oct. 11. The plate has been altered at that point, and it is this section of the map which Lossing copies in his _Field-Book_[811] (i. 163) and in his paper in _Harper's Monthly_ (vol. xxiii. p. 726). The annexed sketch is based upon a plan in the Sparks maps (Cornell University), kindly transmitted to the editor by the librarian.[812] * * * * * In the winter of 1776-77, Burgoyne had submitted to the government some "Thoughts for conducting the war from the side of Canada",—a paper which, barring some important changes, became the scheme of the summer's plans.[813] The stages of the preparation in Canada can be followed in _Force's American Archives_; and references will be found in the _Index to MSS. in the British Museum_ (particularly under "Canada" and "Burgoyne", in those acquired 1854-1875).[814] The records of the Germans are mentioned in Lowell's _Hessians_ (p. 117), and in the sources indicated by Mr. Lowell in another chapter of the present volume[815]