Arnold Describes the Ferocity of the Battle and his Perilous Escape

"We were then attacked in the Congress galley by a ship mounting twelve eighteen-pounders, a schooner of fourteen sixes, and one of twelve sixes, two under our stern, and one on our broadside, within musket-shot. They kept up an incessant fire on us for about five glasses, with round and grape-shot, which we returned as briskly. The sails, rigging, and hull of the Congress were shattered and torn in pieces, the First Lieutenant and three men killed, when, to prevent her falling into the enemy's hands, who had seven sail around me, I ran her ashore in a small creek ten miles from Crown-Point, on the east side, when, after saving our small-arms, I set her on fire with four gondolas, with whose crews, I reached Crown-Point through the woods that evening, and very luckily escaped the savages"