Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna January 1776, akabatana ne2nd Canadian Regiment yaColonel Moses Hazen. Muna June, Brigadier General John Sullivan akamugadza kuti atore mabasa omutevedzeri wemukuru mukuru kubva kuna Donald Campbell. Musi waJanuary 9, 1777, sezvakakurudzirwa naGeneral Horatio Gates, Continental Congress
akamugadza kuti ave lieutenant colonel uye mutevedzeri wemutevedzeri mukuru mukuru muFort Ticonderoga.