Virtual Author Series featuring Mark R. Anderson

The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. The program takes place virtually at 2pm ET.

In May 1776, more than two hundred Indian warriors descended the St. Lawrence River to attack Continental forces at the Cedars, west of Montreal, in the war’s first substantial Indian battles.  Over three days’ fighting, the Native Americans and their British and Canadian allies forced an American fort to surrender and ambushed a fatally delayed relief column.  Historian Mark R. Anderson addresses traditional questions of massacre and cowardice in the affair, while focusing primarily on the campaign’s Native participants—their motivations, battlefield conduct, and the event’s impact in their world.

Mark R. Anderson is an independent historian and retired U.S. Air Force officer, author of The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony:  America’s War of Liberation in Canada, 1774-1776 (2013), The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775-1776:  As Told through Jean-Baptiste Badeaux’s Three Rivers Journal and New York Captain William Goforth’s Letters (2016), and Down the Warpath to the Cedars:  Indians’ First Battles in the Revolution (2021).

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