Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A watan Janairun 1776, ya shiga Rundunar Kanada ta 2 na Kanar Musa Hazen. A watan Yuni, Birgediya Janar John Sullivan ya sanya shi ya dauki nauyin mataimakin babban jami'in daga Donald Campbell. A ranar 9 ga Janairu, 1777, kamar yadda Janar Horatio Gates ya ba da shawara, Majalisa ta Continental
ya nada shi Lieutenant Colonel da kuma mataimakin mataimakin mai kula da shi a Fort Ticonderoga.