On the 250th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the Revolutionary War, Fort Ticonderoga announces the reunion of two ...

A retired Air Force general recalls the journey of some of America's first soldiers through wilderness that is now Maine.

A surprise dead-of-night attack helped lead to US independence from the British. Now, a series of events are commemorating ...

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 ...

The effort to make Canada the 14th colony had proved a failure. Although it was never a colony, Vermont, not Canada, would become the 14th state.

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.

On May 10, 1775, just weeks after the first shots of the Revolutionary War rang out at Lexington and Concord, a small band of American soldiers, led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, launched a ...

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 ...