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Ticonderoga Ticonderoga, NY |
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In 1755, construction on the formal Fort Carillon was begun. Three years later, the Marguis de Montcalm's small army defeated an attack of a much larger British regiment. But the next year the British took over the fort, rebuilt it (the French had blown up their gunpowder stores) and renamed it "Ticonderoga." Fort Ty would later play a role in American struggle for independence. An eight-year old boy, intrigued after finding an artifact at the site, went on to facilitate the restoration of the fort in 1908, which had fallen to ruin. |
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French Lines Harrison learned, "The French lines was an ingenious fortress built in only 48 hours by 3000 soldiers. It was made to keep invaders from getting to the less protected side of the fort, and it worked. The wall is in a zigzag shape to make it hard for intruders to attack, but easy for the defenders to shoot from many angles." |
Fort
Life (Historic Communities)
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) Amanda
with Field Artillery
"This is me at a field cannon. They were used for horses or people to pull around the battlefields. We think this one is for people to pull so they can get it adjusted properly." |
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builds the fort
"Harrison and I took turns putting together a model of Fort Ticonderoga. It was kind of difficult, but I got it. The fort was shaped like a star so that all the people inside were protected from the enemies outside and they could see and shoot from many different angles." |
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On May 10, 1775, three weeks after the Lexington and Concord battles, Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold took the fort from the British. This was the first American Victory in the fight for independence. "Come out you dirty rat!" called Ethan Allen to the French commander, Marquis de Montcalm. |
From the Dover coloring book Story of the American Revolution by Peter F. Copeland |
) Shooting
a Musket
We got to see and hear the firing of a replica musket. It took the Native American "soldier" three tries and a risky roughening of his worn flint before it would fire, but it was an exciting moment. It was one of those times we didn't have the camcorder with us, but wish we had brought it. We enjoyed looking at the extensive collection of artillery in the fort museums and learning how they work. |
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Me! Click on this drawing of a flintlock musket
for a large diagram of the mechanism. |
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The
first fortification at Ticonderoga, built in the 1600s by the French
to protect their fur trade waterways, took advantage of the natural
strategic qualities of the peninsula.
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