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TICONDEROGA

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 938 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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village in the township of Ticonderoga, See also:Essex See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., on the outlet of See also:Lake See also:George, too m. by See also:rail N. by E. of See also:Albany. Pop. (1890), 2267; (19oo), 1911;.(1905), 1749; (1910), 2475. Ticonderoga is served by the See also:Delaware & See also:Hudson and the See also:Rutland See also:railways. The See also:water a, Rostrum or hypostome; b, b, Palpi; c, Genital See also:aperture; d, Anal orifice; e, e, Ventral See also:surface of capitulum; g, Sternum; 1-7,seg- from Lake George falls here about 30 ft., providing water-See also:power, and among the manufactures are See also:paper pulp, paper-making machinery and See also:lumber. Flake See also:graphite was discovered in this vicinity as See also:early as 1815, and for years two mines (with See also:quartzite See also:veins, respectively 1-5 and 2-15 ft. thick) at Ticonderoga were the See also:principal source of See also:supply of See also:good crystalline graphite. Commanding a See also:portage on the See also:line of water communication between See also:Canada and the See also:English colonies, Ticonderoga. was a See also:place of considerable strategic importance during the Seven Years' See also:War. On-a commanding See also:elevation overlooking the See also:present village and Lake See also:Champlain the See also:French began See also:building a fort of See also:earth and See also:timber in 1755 and called it Fort See also:Carillon; later it was named Fort Ticonderoga. See also:Sir See also:William See also:Johnson led an expedition in the same See also:year against this fort and See also:Crown Point; though he failed to See also:capture the forts he defeated See also:Baron See also:Ludwig See also:August Dieskau in the See also:battle'bT, ake George and erected at the See also:head of the lake Fort William See also:Henry, which was captured by the See also:marquis de Montcalm in 1757. On the 8th of See also:July 1958 less than 4000 Frenchmen were confronted at Fott Carillon by about 6000 See also:British regulars and ro,000 provincials See also:tinder Lieut.-See also:General See also:James See also:Abercrombie and Brigadier-General George A. See also:Howe, but Howe, the controlling spirit of the British force, had been killed on the 6th of July, and Abercrombie,' after an ineffective attack which cost him nearly 2000 men killed or wounded, retreated. In 1758, however, when Montcalm had gone to See also:Quebec to oppose See also:Wolfe and a force of only 400 men was See also:left at Ticonderoga, See also:Lord See also:Amherst with 11,000 men invested it, and on the 26th of July the See also:garrison blew up and abandoned the fortifications.

Atthe beginning of the War of See also:

Independence, on the loth of May. 1775, the fort was surprised and captured by Ethan See also:Allen. It was reeavered by the British on the 5th of July 1777, during'Tutgoyne'%See also:campaign, wasabandonedimmediately after Hurgoyne's surrender in See also:October 1777, but was re-occupied by the British 1780. After the See also:close of the war it was allowed to fall into ruins,. In 1909, on the occasion of the tercentenary celebtStion of- the See also:discovery of Lake Champlain, the restoration of the fort was begun under, the direction of the owner of the site. The See also:settlement of this region was begun soon after the close of the Seven Years' War, and the township of Ticonderoga was set apart from the township of Crown Point in 1804. The village of Ticonderoga was incorporated in 1889.

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