On this day 250 years ago at Fort Ticonderoga, New York, Major General Philip Schuyler reported to General Washington that Colonel Benedict Arnold had reached Quebec:

I have the Happiness My Dear General to inclose You a Letter from Colo: Arnold, & a Copy of one of his to General Montgomery, with Copy of that Gentleman’s to me; Whatever may be Colonel Arnold’s Fate at Quebec, his Merit is very great, in marching such a Body of Troops, thro’ a Country scarcely trodden by Human Foot. May Heaven still continue to smile on our Arms, until We have obtained that Justice, which is so justly our due.

Source: “Major General Philip Schuyler to George Washington, 22 November 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0383. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 2, 16 September 1775 – 31 December 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, pp. 417–418.]

Also on this day 250 years ago in New York City, Isaac Sears led a mob to seize James Rivington’s Press, in retaliation for the confiscation by Royal Governor Dunmore of Virginia of a printing press operated by a Patriot publisher. Rivington’s Gazetteer was the leading Tory publication in America. Sears and his mob melted down the newspaper’s lead type to recast it as bullets. 

Sources: https://brewminate.com/isaac-sears-revolution-and-the-roots-of-america-in-new-york/; https://www.yorkmaine.org/DocumentCenter/View/10983/American-Revolution-Chronology-