Where the Revolution Was Won: Fort Ticonderoga Awarded Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership Grant to Expand the Northern Department for America’s 250th Funding Advances New Digital Content, K-12 Education, and a Battle of Valcour 250th Conference While Promoting the Hudson Champlain Corridor as a Multi-Day Heritage Destination
As America marks the 250th anniversary of its independence, Fort Ticonderoga today announced it has been awarded a Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership (CVNHP) grant, administered by the Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program with support from the National Park Service, to advance the next phase of its Northern Department heritage initiative. The funding will […]
New Revolutionary War Artifacts Discovered, Preserved at Fort Ticonderoga
As part of its ongoing excavation and study of the famous Liberty Hill site, and just in time for the nation’s 250th anniversary of independence, Fort Ticonderoga is announcing the discovery, documentation and preservation of more than five hundred new artifacts at Liberty Hill — with several of the most compelling examples dating from the […]
The Education of Henry Knox
There is no Revolutionary hero so connected with books as Henry Knox. A bookseller before the war, he is indelibly associated with the printed word’s relationship to military practice. This is ironic though, as Knox lacked virtually any formal military training or education. The popular image, and one perpetuated in subsequent histories, of the young […]
A Noble Train?
Today, we often refer to Henry Knox’s expedition to bring guns from Ticonderoga to Washington’s army in Boston as the “Noble Train.” Nowadays reading the word “train” conjures up images of a locomotive, or at the very least a strung out line of moving vehicles or things. But this is misleading. Isolating the words “noble […]