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Under the present conditions it was thought best for Bryce to remain at home, for if the Green Mountain Boys marched upon Ticonderoga the younger Harding could not be spared to accompany the expedition. The Council was in session and the leaders of the Green Mountain Boys remained in Bennington for more than a week.
The French still hold Ticonderoga, and he can use it as a base for bands much farther south." "True, but I don't think they'll have Ticonderoga, or Crown Point, either, long. Amherst is gathering too big an army and there is no Montcalm to defend them. The Marquis will have his hands full and overflowing, defending Quebec against Wolfe. We've held both Duquesne and Louisbourg a long while now.
Yet the whole country about Boston was dotted with low hills, on which might easily be made a chain of fortifications. Besides such work as Thomas's, for a month little was done. To be sure, early in May a party of provincials, gathered in Connecticut and Vermont, and headed by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, took Ticonderoga by surprise, and gained for America a fine supply of cannon.
Rogers with some thirty of his Rangers was out upon one of those daring adventures. They were encamped within a mile of Ticonderoga. Their boats were lying in a little wooded creek which gave access to the lake. Some of the party, headed by Rogers, had gone on towards Crown Point by night.
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"Mother dear, I despise secrets," Faith whispered, as she finished the story, "and I mean never to have another one." Three days later Mr. Carew came swinging across the clearing. He waved his cap in the air as Faith came running to meet him. "Ticonderoga is ours," he called, "and the English prisoners are on their way to Hartford.
One of Washington's most trusted generals said, and said truly, that it was only through misfortune that the Americans would rise to the character of a great people. Perhaps no event of the Revolution more signally verified the truth of this saying, than the fall of Ticonderoga. Let us see how this disaster was affecting the Northern States.
Fort Ticonderoga was at the southern end of the narrow strip of land which lies between Lake Champlain and the outlet of Lake George. A half-mile to the north of the fort, a little ridge runs across the peninsula. As we looked down from the hill, we saw the French hard at work on a strong breastwork of logs which they had nearly completed.
We shall have a little promenade of eight days, to Albany. On June 29 the army was near Ticonderoga. This day Burgoyne made a stirring address to his soldiers, in which he gave out the memorable watchword, "This army must not retreat." The next day, Frazer's corps landed in full view of the fortress.
A keenness was given to the resentment of the injured, which outlived the contest between the two nations. The army which surrendered at Saratoga exceeded 5,000 men. On marching from Ticonderoga it was estimated at 9,000.
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