Fort Ticonderoga
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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
Noble train of artillery
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The noble train of artillery, also known as the Knox Expedition, was an expedition led by Continental Army Colonel Henry Knox to transport heavy weaponry that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga to
An ox team hauling Ticonderoga's guns
Henry Knox later in life
General Philip Schuyler
19th-century drawing depicting the arrival of the weapons