Fort Ticonderoga

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I was not kilted for this visit, but I found lots of great Black Watch stuff there. The entire album, including non-Scottish stuff, is at http://www.fa.

Fort Ticonderoga, built by the French as a choke-point between Montreal and New York City during the Seven Years' War, is a classic of the genre: all pointy bastions and heavy cannon decks, it changed hands no less than three times ...

Siege of Fort Ticonderoga 1777. Causing an outrage among the American public who believed the fort impregnable, the forces under St Clair retreat on this day in the face of an advancing British army led by Burgoyne. ...

We are at the part where Boston is saved from the British in early 1776 by cannons pulled 300 miles through winter snows from Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain to Boston. So yesterday we were driving, listening to history, ...

CIA: "The capture of Fort Ticonderoga, New York, was an early example of how skillful initial use of intelligence could contribute to successful military campaigns for months and years afterward."

During the French and Indian War, the Scotsmen was wounded in an unsuccessful British assault on Fort Carillon, Ticonderoga. He died some days later in the military hospital on Rogers Island. Before ever meeting Jane McCrea, ...

This weekend (Saturday, June 26th to Sunday, June 27th), Fort Ticonderoga will stage its annual Grand Encampment, a vivid recreation of what life was like during the French and Indian War of 1755-1763. Battle reenactments (or carefully ...

Fort Ticonderoga was first named Fort Carillon. Fort Carillon was built by the French during the French and Indian War. The French believed this would protect them from the British from attack from the lake or from Lake George. ...