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Montreal Campaign Begins Wade Hampton leaves his base at with about 4,000 men, equally divided between Col. Robert Purdy and Brig. Gen. George Izard. They are transported north on Lake Champlain and land near Odelltown. Wilkinson's force of 7,000 men remains at Sackett's Harbor under Lewis, Boyd and Covington. Wilkinson and Hampton, two officers who detested each other so much they refused to speak, now were starting on a campaign that required perfect coordination between each other to trap a smaller opponent between their two forces. The same operation would be attempted to two other non-talkative officers 100 years latter at the battle of Tannenberg, allowing a small force of Germans to destroy to huge Russian armies piecemeal. The same was about to happen in Lower Canada . . . with the same disastrous results.
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