REAL TIME REVOLUTION® Living History Event Brings Benjamin Franklin’s Famous Journey to Life
Fort Ticonderoga invites the public and media to “Emissaries to Canada,” an immersive one-day Winter Quarters living history event on Saturday, April 11, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. As part of the REAL TIME REVOLUTION® experience, this program captures a pivotal moment in 1776: Benjamin Franklin’s congressional mission to Montreal in a high […]
REAL TIME REVOLUTION® Living History Event Focuses on Life in the Early Days of the American Revolution
Step off the pages of history and onto the frozen ground of 1776! Fort Ticonderoga invites the public and media to its gripping one-day Winter Quarters living history event, “Proceed to Canada,” on Saturday, March 28, 2026, from 10AM-4PM. This immersive REAL TIME REVOLUTION® experience transports visitors back to the early days of the American […]
Fort Ticonderoga Receives a Forrest E. Mars, Jr. Chocolate History Grant to Support Programming Marking 250 Years of America and Chocolate
Fort Ticonderoga was recently awarded a $10,000 Forrest E. Mars Jr. Chocolate History grant that will contribute to the development of a new interactive living history program recreating the chocolate sellers of the civilian market at Ticonderoga in 1776 in honor of America’s 250th anniversary. The grant was awarded at the Annual Heritage Chocolate Society […]
Fort Ticonderoga Unlocks Real Time Revolution® War Drama with Epic Winter Program Lineup
Step back 250 years into the heart of the American Revolution this winter! Fort Ticonderoga is rolling out its “Winter Quarters” season (through April) with a powerhouse lineup of immersive living history events, virtual programming, premium behind-the-scenes tours, and hands-on workshops, all under the banner of its multi-year REAL TIME REVOLUTION® 250th commemoration. Winter Quarters […]
REAL TIME REVOLUTION® Living History Event Focuses on the “Frozen Front” of the American War in the Winter of 1776
Step off the pages of history and onto the frozen ground of 1776! Fort Ticonderoga invites the public and media to its gripping, one-day Winter Quarters living history event, “Supplying our Army in Canada,” on Saturday, January 17, 2026. This immersive REAL TIME REVOLUTION® experience thrusts visitors into the precarious first winter of the Revolutionary […]
This Week, Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Historic ‘Noble Train of Artillery’ Beginning at Fort Ticonderoga
This week, beginning December 5 and running through December 7, Fort Ticonderoga will celebrate the 250th anniversary of one of the most ambitious and successful military operations of the American Revolution. Henry Knox’s expedition to bring a “Noble Train of Artillery,” featuring nearly 60 tons of vital military equipment on a 300-mile journey from Fort […]
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 […]
Fort Ticonderoga Brings History Home in a One-Time Only Virtual Learning Program, Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the “Noble Train of Artillery”
On December 5th, the date of Henry Knox’s historic 1775 arrival at Fort Ticonderoga, Fort Ticonderoga will present a one-of-a-kind in-person and virtual program, “Ticonderoga’s Treasures: Knox Edition.” This afternoon event will feature archival texts, rare Revolutionary-era books, prints and actual artifacts only found at Fort Ticonderoga, dating back to the 1775 journey that changed […]
What’s In a Name?
Mr., Esquire, Colonel, General, Secretary… Henry Knox was known by many titles over his life, but what he was called during his monumental expedition to Ticonderoga can be a bit confusing. That is because how Knox was addressed was changing as his journey to and from Ticonderoga was underway. Prior to November of 1775, Henry […]