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CROWN POINT

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 519 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CROWN POINT , a See also:village of See also:Essex See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., in a township of the same name, about 90 M. N.E. of See also:Albany and about to m. N. of See also:Ticonderoga, on the W. See also:shore of See also:Lake See also:Champlain. Pop. of the township (1890) 3135; (1900) 2112; (1905) 1890; (1910) 1690; of the village, about moo. The village is served by the See also:Delaware & See also:Hudson Railway and by the Champlain See also:Canal. Among the manufactures are See also:lumber and woodenware. See also:Graphite has been found in the western See also:part of the township, and spar is See also:mined. In 1609 Champlain fought near here the engagement with the See also:Iroquois See also:Indians which marked the beginning of the See also:long enmity between the Five (later Six) Nations and the See also:French. Subsequently Dutch and See also:English traders trafficked in the vicinity, the latter maintaining here for many years a See also:regular trading-See also:post. In 1731 the French built here Fort See also:Frederic, the first military post at Crown Point, and the See also:place was subsequently for many years of considerable strategic importance, owing to its situation on Lake Champlain, which with Lake See also:George furnished a comparatively easy route from See also:Canada to New York. Twice during the French and See also:Indian See also:War, in 1755 and again in 1756, English and colonial expeditions were sent against it in vain; it remained in French hands until 1759, when, after See also:Lord See also:Jeffrey See also:Amherst's occupation of Ticonderoga, the See also:garrison joined that of the latter place and retreated to Canada. Crown Point was then'occupied by Amherst, who during the See also:winter of 1759—1760 began the construction, about a See also:quarter of a mile from the old Fort Frederic, of a large fort, which was garrisoned but was never completed; the ruins of this fort (not of Fort Frederic) still remain.

At the outbreak of the War of See also:

Independence, on the 15th of May 1775, the fort, whose garrison then consisted of only a dozen men, was captured by See also:Colonel See also:Seth See also:Warner and a force of " See also:Green See also:Mountain Boys," sent from Ticonderoga by Ethan See also:Allen; and it remained in See also:American hands See also:save for a brief See also:period in 1777, when it was occupied by a detachment of See also:Burgoyne's invading See also:army.

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