"Fort Ticonderoga" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Ethan Allen at the entrance of Fort Ticonderoga, ordering De la Place, the commandant of the fort, to immediately surrender, in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress. Around the door are gathered the soldiers of Allen. De la ...
— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head
... in the following year (1777) that General Burgoyne made an offensive movement southward from Canada, by way of Lake Champlain and Fort Ticonderoga. A portion of his troops were sent to Bennington to capture some stores collected there by the Vermont patriots. A vigorous defence of these stores by the intrepid Stark resulted in the repulse, first of the British, then of the Hessian troops. The next scene in the drama was what ...
— The Nation in a Nutshell • George Makepeace Towle
... mentioned in a former chapter, served in "the old French war" and was with his cousin Captain John Hazen in the campaign against Fort Ticonderoga. His subsequent career we have already touched upon and he will naturally continue to be a leading character in the story of the early history of St. John. He was evidently a man of stout constitution and vigor of body, for he not only survived all his ...
— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond |
