Fort Ticonderoga in New York kicks off its 2015 season on Saturday, May 9 through Sunday, May 10, when visitors will step back in time into Nouvelle France (New France) in 1756 as French soldiers return by boats from posts down Lake Champlain.
According to the Fort Ticonderoga blog, “Saturday morning, with a small flotilla of bateaux, Fort Ticonderoga interpretative staff and re-enactors will row and sail their way up Lake Champlain to arrive by 2:00 p.m. at Fort Ticonderoga. This is a recreation of the final stride of French soldiers travelling to Carillon, just as it happened on May 9, 1756.”
Fort Ticonderoga. www.fortticonderoga.org.
Fort Ticonderoga, formerlly Fort Carillon, was built by Canadian Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière between 1755 and 1757 during the Seven Years’ War.
It was on the Ticoderoga peninsula in 1609 that Samuel de Champlain and his Algonquin allies battled a band of Iroquois on a discovery expdition.
In 1666, the Régiment Carignan-Salières threatened Iroquois settlements in the Mohawk Valley and camped on the Ticonderoga peninsula on its way south.
During the 18th-century colonial conflicts between Great Britain and France, Fort Ticonderoga was of strategic importance, and again played an important role during the American Revolutionary War.
Fort Ticonderoga is located on 2,000 acres on the shores of Lake Champlain in Ticonderoga, New York, between New York’s Adirondack and Vermont’s Green Mountains.
Learn more about the weekend event on the Fort Ticonderoga website.
Thanks to Kathryn Lake Hogan for her post on Facebook.
