He marched under Gen.

Schuyler to the relief of Montgomery, at Quebec, and continued to be an indomitable actor in various positions, civil and military, in the great drama of the Revolution during its entire continuance.
In 1777, the darkest and most hopeless period of our revolutionary contest, he led a reinforcement from Albany to Fort Stanwix, up the Mohawk Valley, then alive with hostile Indians and Tories, and escaped them all, and he was in this fort, under Col.

Ganzevoort, during its long and close siege by Col.

St.Leger and his infuriated Indian allies.
The whole embodied militia of the Mohawk Valley marched to its relief, under the bold and patriotic Gen.Herkimer.They were met by the Mohawks, Onondagas, and Senecas, and British loyalists, lying in ambush on the banks of the Oriskany, eight miles from the fort.

A dreadful battle ensued.Gen.Herkimer was soon wounded in the thigh, his leg broken, and his horse shot under him.