Fort Ticonderoga is seeking out new research from established scholars in addition to graduate students, professionals, and artisans that relate to material culture made, used, or altered in a military context between roughly 1609-1815. [Read more…] about Fort Ticonderoga Material Culture Conference Call for Papers
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Fort Ticonderoga Opens for 2022 Season May 7th
Fort Ticonderoga is set to open for the 2022 season on Saturday, May 7th. This year, Fort Ticonderoga will follow the story of 1759, from the final heroic defense of French Fort Carillon to the construction of British Fort Ticonderoga. Just as in 1759, the historic portrayal reflected in programs and tours will change in July. [Read more…] about Fort Ticonderoga Opens for 2022 Season May 7th
Winter Quarters Living History Event at Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga will host a one-day living history event, looking back to the early days of the American Revolution when the Continental Army rushed supplies and soldiers north to Ticonderoga to try to save their campaign in Canada in the first year of the Revolution, set for Saturday, March 26th. [Read more…] about Winter Quarters Living History Event at Fort Ticonderoga
Revolutionary Albany: Setbacks As The War Presses Toward Albany
After a late-summer of preparations, too late in the fall of 1775, the Colonial Army mounted a two-pronged invasion of Canada. General Schuyler invaded Montreal from Fort Ticonderoga and General Benedict Arnold attacked Quebec.
Schuyler fell ill and was replaced by General Richard Montgomery. Montgomery took Montreal and then marched to assist Arnold at Quebec. [Read more…] about Revolutionary Albany: Setbacks As The War Presses Toward Albany
Revolutionary Albany: Supplying Ticonderoga, Dealing With Loyalists & Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Relations
In early May, 1775 the Revolutionary War was underway on largely local scale. The attack on the British forces leaving Lexington and Concord had happened less than a month earlier, and 4,500 British troops had landed in Boston.
The lightly defended Fort Ticonderoga was taken on the morning of May 10, 1775, in a surprise attack by the Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, with the help of Benedict Arnold. The fort had been held by the British for 16 years, since it was taken from the French in 1759. [Read more…] about Revolutionary Albany: Supplying Ticonderoga, Dealing With Loyalists & Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Relations
1759 Battle on Snowshoes Reenactment Saturday
Robert Rogers departed Fort Edward on a grand scout of French-held Ticonderoga on May 3rd, 1759, leading 358 Mohawk warriors, British regulars and Rangers. They arrived across from the French fort at Cape Diamond, present day Mount Independence, early on March 7th and there they sat in ambush, awaiting French soldiers who hiked across frozen Lake Champlain to cut firewood. [Read more…] about 1759 Battle on Snowshoes Reenactment Saturday
Henry Knox, Phillip Schuyler and Lake Champlain’s Cannon in Boston
One of the iconic stories of the American Revolution is the laborious trek of a contingent of newly-minted patriots, led by Henry Knox, lugging cannon from the fort at Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester Heights, forcing the British to abandon Boston, an important early victory is our long fight for freedom.
Few may realize that important decisions while the expedition was in Saratoga County were key to the success of the mission. [Read more…] about Henry Knox, Phillip Schuyler and Lake Champlain’s Cannon in Boston
Fort Ticonderoga’s Popular Fort Fever Series Returning Virtually
Fort Ticonderoga’s wintertime Fort Fever Series is set to return on Wednesday, January 26th at 7 pm, with “Brace Yourself with Holsters,” a program with Fort Ticonderoga Vice President of Public History Stuart Lilie looking at the common details of 18th-century holsters and their rapid evolution on the eve of the Revolutionary War. [Read more…] about Fort Ticonderoga’s Popular Fort Fever Series Returning Virtually
Fort Ti Reliving Henry Knox’s Epic ‘Noble Train’ Dec 4th
Fort Ticonderoga will present a one-day living history event on Saturday, December 4th to highlight Henry Knox’s epic feat as he prepared to move massive cannon from Crown Point and Ticonderoga to Boston to force the British evacuation of 1776. [Read more…] about Fort Ti Reliving Henry Knox’s Epic ‘Noble Train’ Dec 4th
Fort Ti New Resources At Center for Digital History
Fort Ticonderoga has announced new college-level “Micro-Course” videos taught by Fort Ticonderoga Curator Dr. Matthew Keagle are now available for free online streaming. [Read more…] about Fort Ti New Resources At Center for Digital History