Lieutenant Colonel Eleazer Oswald of New Haven, who served with great zeal during the last day of the incursion, had acted as Arnold's secretary throughout the Canada cam-paign. After the latter had been wounded and carried from the field, in the attempt upon Quebec, Oswald with great gallantry led the remains of the forlorn hope. He was after-wards transferred to the artillery service, and as Lamb's lieutenant was enlisting and drilling men for the regiment, when the news came that Tryon's forces had landed. Pur-suant to Arnold's orders, he immediately mustered his recruits, consisting of two incomplete companies, and started with three guns, for the scene of action. As an artillerist, Oswald was an officer of uncommon ability. He acquired great dis-tinction at the Battle of Monmouth. At the commencement

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of the French revolutionary war, he was in England on busi-ness. Upon the invasion of France by the Allies, his enthus-iasm for the republican cause and his love of military adven-ture overcame all other considerations, and crossing the Chan-nel he hastened to Paris, and offered his services to the Con-vention. They were accepted with the most flattering civ-ility. He thereupon at once proceeded to the frontiers and on arriving at General Dumouriez's headquarters, was ap-pointed full colonel in the corps of artillery. At the cele-brated battle of Jemappes, where Dumouriez attacked and defeated the Austrians who under Clairfayt were entrenched on the heights around the city of Mons, Oswald commanded a battery of four twenty-four pounders, and in the open field cannonaded three redoubts for the space of five successive hours. His contribution toward this victory gained him a high rank for skill and courage in the estimation of the French officers. Three weeks subsequently he distinguished him-self in another action near the city of Siege.