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Elzear Duquette, the “king of the walk,” spent a few days in Cold Spring on his way to Lake George. According to Duquette, he ...
This weekend about 50 other descendants of Bunker Hill veterans will arrive in Charlestown to commemorate the bravery and ...
While biking with my gravel bike in an area west of Albany, looking for a logging road that might take me around Lowell ...
You can control many elements when vacation planning but the weather’s not one of them. For my first solo camping trip, I ...
On the 250th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the Revolutionary War, Fort Ticonderoga announces the reunion of two ...
Also on this date: In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Col. Benedict Arnold, captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, New York. In 1865, Confederate President ...
Allen and his soldiers, joined by Benedict Arnold, mounted a surprise attack ... Americans held the fort until July 5, 1775, when it was recaptured by the British during the Saratoga Campaign.
TICONDEROGA — On May 10, 1775, Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys rowed across Lake Champlain and seized the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga — delivering the ...
WASHINGTON — After the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the Massachusetts militia ... Connecticut militia officer Benedict Arnold as a colonel and authorized him to raise ...
Ethan was full of confidence in 1775 — when was he ever lacking ... Actually, he jointly led forces that night — working beside Benedict Arnold, who was perhaps America’s most effective ...
In the final days of April 1775, Capt. Edward Mott of Connecticut and a crew of ... the Green Mountain Boys on the shores of Lake Champlain. It was there they met Benedict Arnold, who had requested ...
But before that, Henry Knox brought the guns from Fort Ticonderoga that Ethan Allen and one of our great generals Benedict Arnold had gotten. By the time they get put up in the heights of ...