Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775. By Thomas A. Desjardin. (New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 240. $24.95.)

Few American soldiers have experienced greater deprivation, misery, and despair than those on the expedition that Colonel Benedict Arnold led to Canada during the War of Independence, and still fewer of them have ever exhibited greater courage, endurance, and bravery. Arnold's march has been written about previously, although not as much as one might expect, and it has never been described more graphically and lucidly ...

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