Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York. It was constructed between Octob
Fort Ticonderoga from Mount Defiance
Engraving after a 1609 drawing by Champlain of an American Indian battle near Ticonderoga
Officers' barracks, right; soldiers' barracks, left
Inside the first wall; officers' barracks at left, soldiers' barracks at right
The Saratoga campaign in 1777 was an attempt by the British to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River valley during the American Revolutionary War. It ended in the surrender
Surrender of General Burgoyne John Trumbull, 1821
Portrait of John Burgoyne by Joshua Reynolds, 1766
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, portrait by Antoine-François Callet