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Anne, Fort.
A military post in New York in the Revolutionary War. When the British took possession of Ticonderoga (July 6, 1777), Burgoyne ordered gunboats to pursue the bateaux laden with stores, etc., from the fort.
The boombridge barrier across the lake there was soon broken, and the pursuing vessels overtook the fugitive boats near Skenesborough, and destroyed them and their contents.
Colonel Long, in command of the men in them, escaped with his people and the invalids, and, after setting fire to everything combustible at Skenesborough (now Whitehall), they hastened to Fort Anne, a few miles in the interior, followed by a british regiment.
When near the fort.
Long turned on his pursuers and routed them: but the latter being reinforced.
Long was driven back.
He burned Fort Anne, and fled to Fort Edward, on the Hudson.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burgoyne , Sir John , 1723 -1792 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Skenesboro, capture of (search)
Skenesboro, capture of
(1775). After the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 1775, Arnold was joined by about fifty recruits, who had seized a schooner and some cannon, with several prisoners, at Skenesboro (now Whitehall), at the head of Lake Champlain.
In the captured schooner Arnold went down the lake, entered the Sorel River (its outlet), and, capturing an armed vessel and some valuable stores there, returned with them to Crown Point.
A superior force at Montreal compelled Arnold to abandon St. John.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ticonderoga , operations at (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson , David 1818 -1887 (search)
Wilson, David 1818-1887
Author; born in West Hebron, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1818; graduated at Union College in 1840; admitted to the bar and began practice in Whitehall, N. Y. Later he abandoned that profession and turned his attention to literature; settled in Albany, N. Y., in 1857.
His publications include Solomon Northrup, or twelve years a slave; Life of Jane McCrea; A narrative of Nelson Lee, a captive among the Comanches, etc. He died in Albany, N. Y., June 9, 1887.