The Generals

Fort Defiance The Fort The Generals

The Generals

from the Fort Ticonderoga Museum

 

area first explored by Samuel  de Champlain (1609)

 

Highlanders suffered many losses on the British assault of the French held Fort
42nd Highland Regiment (the Black Watch)

 

Lake Champlain was the principal invasion route

 

Robert Rogers during the French and Indian Wars (1758)

 

powder horns used by the American farmer soldiers

 

Ethan Allen surprised the British commander of Fort Ticonderoga
on his early morning capture of the Fort in 1775

 

Henry Knox hauled the cannon from Ticonderoga to Dorchester Heights
to force the British evacuation of Boston

 

bridge linking Fort Ticonderoga with Mount Independence (1777)

 

General John Burgoyne (1777)

 

the British supply route on Lake Champlain

 

part of General Burgoyne's forces were
Brunswick Infantry

 

model of Fort Ticonderoga

 

General Washington in a Continental Uniform


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