1776
1776
the battle of fort Ticonderoga was in 1775
Fort Duquesne, or what was left of it, was captured by the British on the 25th of November, 1758. The French destroyed it before it was captured.
As the first rebel victory of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga served as a morale booster and provided key artillery for the Continental Army in that first year of war. Cannons captured at Fort Ticonderoga would be used during the successful Siege of Boston the following spring.
Fort Duquesne, or what was left of it, was captured by the British on the 25th of November, 1758. The French destroyed it before it was captured.
The battle of Ticonderoga was important, because it was a battle in the Revolutionary War, and it also led to Washington crossing the Delaware River.
Yes, the British did.
July 15, 1781
Tadeusz Kosciuszko was a Polish patriot and military leader, now regarded as a hero in Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and the US. He arrived in North America during the War of Independence, and set about assisting with the fortification of key cities.Kosciuszko first built Fort Billingsport on the Delaware River in Paulsboro, New Jersey. A year later, he was directing the building of more forts along the Canadian border. He was also posted to try and rebuild Fort Ticonderoga near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of New York. Unfortunately, his recommendations for a battery above the fort, on Sugar Loaf Mountain, were ignored, and the fort was lost when the british moved in to attack from the mountain.
One of the last French forts to fall was Fort Carillon at Ticonderoga. This was the site of a costly and embarrassing failure in the previous year.
The French built the Fort between 1755-58 and called it Fort Carillon. 16,000 British and Colonial troops attacked the Fort in 1758, during the French and Indian War, but were driven off by the 4,000 French defenders. The next year the British returned and drove off a skeleton French garrison merely by occupying the high ground that dominated the Fort, which was a fatal flaw in locating the Fort where it was.Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, with Benedict Arnold along, captured the Fort from a tiny garrison of British troops, whom they caught by surprise, on May 10, 1775.The Patriots held the Fort until July 1777, when British troops again occupied the high ground overlooking the Fort and forced them to withdraw. In September 1777 a Patriot force of 500 attacked the Fort but failed to retake it from its 100 British defenders.In mid-October the British destroyed a small fleet of American gunboats in the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain near the Fort, but smow was already falling so the British withdrew to winter quarters in Quebec. The Saratoga Campaign had been a failure for the British and they abandoned the Fort in the autumn of 1777.
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