Fort Ticonderoga
102 Fort Ti Rd, Ticonderoga, NY 12883, USA
New York, USA
MUSEUM
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FORT
EST. 1755
FORTIFICATION
EST. 1755
BATTLEFIELD
March 10, 1775 & July 5, 1777
Arnold, Benedict
Schuyler, Philip
Burgoyne, John
St Clair, Arthur
Knox, Henry
Phillips, William
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Fort Ticonderoga.
A substantially restored eighteenth-century masonry fort operated as a museum and research center overlooking Lake Champlain. The privately managed site includes reconstructed and original fortifications, military collections, archaeological resources, historic gardens, trails, demonstrations, and the preserved Mount Defiance landscape associated with the fortress.
About Fort Ticonderoga
It was constructed by Canadian-born French military engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière between October 1755 and 1757, during the French and Indian War. The site controlled a river portage alongside the mouth of the rapids-infested La Chute River, in the 3.5 miles between Lake Champlain and Lake George. It was thus strategically placed for the competition over trade routes between the British-controlled Hudson River Valley and the French-controlled Saint Lawrence River Valley. The name "Ticonderoga" comes from the Iroquois word tekontaró:ken, meaning "it is at the junction of two waterways".
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Fort Ticonderoga
The British under General Jeffery Amherst captured the fort in the 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga. In this confrontation 11,000 British troops, using emplaced artillery, drove off the token garrison of 400 Frenchmen. The French, in withdrawing, used explosives to destroy what they could of the fort and spiked or dumped cannons that they did not take with them. Although the British worked in 1759 and 1760 to repair and improve the fort, it was not part of any further significant action in the war. After the war, the British garrisoned the fort with a small number of troops and allowed it to fall into disrepair
On May 10, 1775, less than one month after the Revolutionary War was ignited with the battles of Lexington and Concord, the British garrison of 48 soldiers was surprised by a small force of Green Mountain Boys, along with militia volunteers from Massachusetts and Connecticut, led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold. With the capture of the fort, the Patriot forces obtained a large supply of cannons and other armaments, much of which Henry Knox transported to Boston during the winter of 1775–1776. Ticonderoga's cannons were instrumental in ending the siege of Boston when they were used to fortify Dorchester Heights.
General Burgoyne led 7,800 British and Hessian forces south from Quebec in June 1777. After occupying nearby Fort Crown Point without opposition on June 30, he prepared to besiege Ticonderoga. Burgoyne realized the tactical advantage of the high ground, and had his troops haul cannons to the top of Mount Defiance. Faced with bombardment from the heights (although no shots had yet been fired), General St. Clair ordered Ticonderoga abandoned on July 5, 1777. Burgoyne's troops moved in the next day, with advance guards pursuing the retreating Patriot Americans.
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