Fort Ticonderoga
willard3
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This fort figures heavily in early American history.
On Lake Champlain
On Lake Champlain
It is better to die on you feet than to live on your knees.....Emiliano Zapata
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John
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A brief history lesson for this Brit would be good to
Fort was built by the French in the French and Indian wars in the 1750's. The Brittish took it in the seven year's war.
When the Ethan Allen took it from the British, there were 12 Yanks and the garrison had 200 soldiers. Ethan Allen knocked on the door and demanded they surrender, and they did.
The cannon from this fort was brought to Boston by Henry Knox in 1775 to Geo Washington who pulled them to Dorchester Heights and forced the Brits to abandon Boston. This doesn't seem like much until you realize that it was 300 miles, hauling with oxen and horses over two pretty challenging mountain ranges in the dead of a New England winter.
I took my grandsons there this summer and my father took me many, many times.
Better history here:
http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org/history/18th-century.htm
Another photograph; this is the powder storage that was blown up and has just completed being rebuilt.
Great pics. More please.
David