On 1 December 1775, Montgomery’s army which had departed from Fort Ticondoroga in August linked up with Arnold’s troops at Pointe-Aux-Trembles in Montreal. Montgomery wrote a letter to General Schuyler a few days later which offered his initial impressions of Arnold and his soldiers.
"I find Colonel Arnold's corps an exceeding fine one, inured to fatigue, and well accustomed to cannon shot (at Cambridge). There is a style of discipline among them much superior to what I have been used to see this campaign. He himself is active, intelligent and enterprising. Fortune often baffles the sanguine expectations of poor mortals. I am not intoxicated with the favours I have received at her hands, but I do think there is a fair prospect of success."
General Montgomery to General Schuyler, 5 December 1775Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris, The Spirit of ‘Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told By Participants (Boston: Da Cap Press, 1968), p. 202.