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Fort Edward (New York, United States) (search for this): entry anne-fort
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.
Ticonderoga (New York, United States) (search for this): entry anne-fort
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.
Whitehall (New York, United States) (search for this): entry anne-fort
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.
Stephen H. Long (search for this): entry anne-fort
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.
John Burgoyne (search for this): entry anne-fort
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.
July 6th, 1777 AD (search for this): entry anne-fort
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.