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fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 week ago

The ghostly vision that predicted a deadly battle at Fort Ticonderoga

The Legend of Ticonderoga is a famous ghost story about Scottish nobleman Duncan Campbell's mortal wounding at the 1758 Battle of Carillon and its retellings.
fromThe Atlantic
3 weeks ago

Into the Breeches

Saturday morning would mark the 250th anniversary of the fort's seizure in 1775 by the Green Mountain Boys-a rumbustious militia of proto-Vermonters who spent years violently defending their bite-size territory-but so far the rain was at best blighting and at worst obliterating every enriching activity the Fort Ticonderoga staff had dreamed up. A plan for the reenactors to sleep under starlight when we'd arrived on Thursday had been downgraded to a plan to shiver in a barn all night.
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