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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ticonderoga, operations at (search)
Ticonderoga, operations at In the summer of 1758 the Marquis de Montcalm occupied the fortress of Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, with about 4,000 men, French and Indians. General Abercrombie p join Wolfe at Quebec; and a third expedition, under General Prideaux, was to capture Fort Ticonderoga and the Lake, from Mount defiance. Niagara, and then hasten down Lake Ontario and the St. La a bad grace. On the evening of the 9th they were on the shore of Lake Champlain, opposite Ticonderoga, and at dawn the next morning the officers and eighty men were on the beach a few rods from tnt. In June, 1777, with about 7,000 men, Lieutenant-General Burgoyne left St. Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga. Johns, on the Sorel, in vessels, and moved up Lake Champlain. His army was composed of foot of Lake George, and by quick movements surprised all the posts between that point and Fort Ticonderoga, 4 miles distant. He took possession of Mount Defiance and Mount Hope, the old French lin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
2,000 Indians......Aug. 2, 1757 Colonel Monroe surrenders with the garrison of nearly 3,000 (Fort William Henry)......Aug. 9, 1757 James De Lancey, governor; Sir Charles Hardy goes to England......1757 General Abercrombie attacks Fort Ticonderoga and is repulsed......July 8, 1758 Fort Frontenac surrenders to the English under Col. John Bradstreet......Aug. 27, 1758 Fort Stanwix built (Fort Schuyler)......1758 English under Gen. John Prideaux besiege Fort Niagara; General Prir William Johnson dies at Albany, aged sixty......July 11, 1774 Delegates chosen to first Continental Congress......July 25, 1774 Provincial convention in New York; delegates to the Continental Congress appointed......April 22, 1775 Fort Ticonderoga surprised and taken by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold with eighty men......May 10, 1775 Crown Point surrenders......May 12, 1775 Benedict Arnold captures St. Johns, Canada......May 16, 1775 First Provincial Congress in New York; Na
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
30, 1775 People, to resist the holding of court under royal authority at Westminster appointed for March 14, 1775, assemble at the court-house, March 13. A guard left during the night is fired upon by Sheriff Patterson and his posse a little before midnight, wounding ten, two mortally, and seven are taken prisoners. In the morning court is opened, but the judge and officers are imprisoned at Northampton by the mob......March 14, 1775 Ethan Allen, with eighty-three men, captures Fort Ticonderoga......May 10, 1775 Ethan Allen and thirty-eight men, captured in an attack on Montreal, sent in irons to England......Sept. 25, 1775 Convention of the New Hampshire grants at Dorset; fifty-six delegates from thirty-three towns, to form a separate State......Sept. 25, 1776 Convention at Westminster declares Vermont a separate, free, and independent jurisdiction or State, as New Connecticut, ......Jan. 17, 1777 Convention at Windsor names the State Vermont, adopts a constituti
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Westminster Abbey. (search)
the memorial erected by an order of the Great and General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Feb. 1, 1759, To Lord Viscount Howe, Brigadier-General of his Majesty's forces in North America, who was slain July 6, 1758, on the march of Ticonderoga, in the thirty-fourth year of his age; in testimony of the sense they had of his services and military virtues, and of the affection their officers and soldiers bore to his command. The figure which mourns over the hero's trophies and armoriaead whose remains have escaped this desecration—it was found that after death his locks had grown to beautiful luxuriance. Advance to the third pillar beyond this, and on the wall you will again see a tomb which bears the ill-fated name of Ticonderoga. It is the tomb of Col. Roger Townshend, killed by a cannon-ball while reconnoitring the French lines on July 25, 1759. He was only twenty-eight, and is represented on the bas-relief surrounded by his officers as he lay in the agonies of dea
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