Fort Ticonderoga is a large eighteenth-century star fort in Ticonderoga, New York, built by the French between October 1755 and 1757 to a design by the engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière. Sited near the south end of Lake Champlain at its narrows with Lake George, on a portage route linking French and British territory, it took the Iroquois name for that junction of two waterways. In the 1758 Battle of Carillon, roughly 4,000 French defenders repelled a British assault by some 16,000 troops, and on 10 May 1775 American forces under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured the fort and its cannons, which later helped break the British siege of Boston; the Americans abandoned the position in 1777 when British forces occupied nearby high ground. The Fort Ticonderoga Association now operates the site as a museum and research center.
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Fort Ticonderoga (), formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York. It was constructed between October 1755 and 1757 by French-Canadian military engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière during the North American phase of the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
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Fort Ticonderoga (), formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York. It was constructed between October 1755 and 1757 by French-Canadian military engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière during the North American phase of the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the
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When the walls were first erected in 1756, they were made of squared wooden timbers, with earth filling the gap.
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The French then began to dress the walls with stone from a quarry about one mile (1.6 km) away, although this work was never fully completed.
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Wikidata item Q1438776, property P131/P17 (location): Ticonderoga, United States
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