Fort Ticonderoga Research Paper

The French Army first established Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War in northern New York between 1755 and 1757 as a preventative measure in anticipation of attacks on French settlements in the Champlain Valley (http://www.fortticonderoga.org/history-and-collections/timeline#). They built it on the western coast, along the southern straits of Lake Champlain, overlooking the lake and a waterway that was at that time a gateway between two great empires of France and Great Britain (Randall, 1990). The French first successfully defended the fort from the British in 1758 in the Battle of Carillon, (Carillon is the former name of Ticonderoga) but the British captured it the following year. The British moved their main center operations to Fort Crown Point soon after the fortification’s completion, but the British still maintained a small garrison at Fort Ticonderoga with elements of the 26th Regiment of Foot along with artillery pieces. However, by the time 1775 rolled around, the fort had fallen into disrepair. In late April, the British moved a number of troops out of the

He noted that the fort was in disarray, as well as the armaments of the fort and the fort’s walls, and he took this information to a comrade of his (Randall, 1990). The comrade relayed this information to the Connecticut Committee of Correspondence, who commissioned a force to take possession of the fort and its contents. The Massachusetts Committee of Safety later commissioned Arnold as a Colonel and ordered him to take the fort (Nelson, 2000). While this was happening, Ethan Allen had recruited more than 150 men, known as the Green Mountain Boys, to undertake the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, and they nominated him Colonel of the expedition (Smith, 1907). Colonel Arnold met Colonel Allen and his Green Mountain Boys at Castleton in the Hampshire Grants, a day’s ride southeast from the opposite shore of