Battle of Ticonderoga of 1775
1955 U.S. postage stamp depicting Ethan Allen and Fort Ticonderoga
Conflict: American Revolutionary War
Date: May 10, 1775
Location: Ticonderoga, New York
Outcome: Colonial victory
Combatants
Britain	Vermont Connecticut
Commanders
Jocelyn Feltham	Ethan Allen Benedict Arnold
Strength
48	83
Casualties
48 captured	None
Canada Campaign 1775–1777 Ticonderoga – Crown Point – Longue-Pointe – Fort St. Jean – Quebec – Les Cèdres – Vaudreuil – Trois-Rivières – Valcour Bay – Fort Cumberland – Ticonderoga

The Battle of Ticonderoga was a minor event of the American Revolutionary War. On May 10, 1775, colonels Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold surprised and captured the small British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga. u. ... An engraving depicting Ethan Allen demanding the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga Ethan Allen (January 10, 1738 – February 12, 1789) was an early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader during the era of the Vermont Republic and the New Hampshire Grants. ... Fort Ticonderoga is a large 18th century fort built at a strategically important narrows in Lake Champlain where a short traverse gives access to the north end of Lake George in the state of New York, USA. The fort controlled both commonly used trade routes between the English-controlled Hudson... The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen British colonies in North America. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1775 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Ticonderoga is a town located in Essex County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 5,167. ... State nickname: The Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² or 54,556 square miles (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water... State nickname: The Green Mountain State Other U.S. States Capital Montpelier Largest city Burlington Governor Jim Douglas (R) Senators Patrick Leahy (D) Jim Jeffords (I) Official language(s) None Area 24,923 km² (43th)  - Land 23,974 km²  - Water 949 km² (3. ... State nickname: The Constitution State Other U.S. States Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport Governor M. Jodi Rell (R) Senators Chris Dodd (D) Joe Lieberman (D) Official language(s) English Area 14,371 km² (48th)  - Land 12,559 km²  - Water 1,809 km² (12. ... An engraving depicting Ethan Allen demanding the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga Ethan Allen (January 10, 1738 – February 12, 1789) was an early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader during the era of the Vermont Republic and the New Hampshire Grants. ... Benedict Arnold For other people of the same name, see Benedict Arnold (disambiguation). ... The Battle of Ticonderoga was a minor event of the American Revolutionary War. ... The Battle of Longue-Pointe was fought on September 24, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. ... The Battle of Fort St. ... For the 1759 British victory over the French in the Seven Years War, see Battle of the Plains of Abraham. ... The Battle of Trois-Rivières (meaning Three Rivers) was fought on June 8, 1776 in the American Revolutionary War. ... The Battle of Valcour Island, also seen as Battle of Valcour Bay, was a naval engagement fought on 11 October 1776, in a narrow strait in Lake Champlain between the New York mainland and Valcour Island. ... The Battle of Fort Cumberland resulted in the defeat of an American army trying to invade and inspire rebellion in the British colony of Nova Scotia during the American Revolutionary War. ... For other battles at Fort Ticonderoga, see Battle of Ticonderoga. ... The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen British colonies in North America. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1775 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... An engraving depicting Ethan Allen demanding the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga Ethan Allen (January 10, 1738 – February 12, 1789) was an early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader during the era of the Vermont Republic and the New Hampshire Grants. ... Benedict Arnold For other people of the same name, see Benedict Arnold (disambiguation). ... Fort Ticonderoga is a large 18th century fort built at a strategically important narrows in Lake Champlain where a short traverse gives access to the north end of Lake George in the state of New York, USA. The fort controlled both commonly used trade routes between the English-controlled Hudson...

The Campaign for Ticonderoga

The Connecticut Committee of Safety had decided that taking Ticonderoga was a good idea particularly because the fort held cannons that would be of great use to the Americans. They wrote to Ethan Allen and others, who also liked the idea. James Easton raised 40 volunteers at Pittsfield, Massachusetts for the venture. Allen assembled over a hundred of his Green Mountain Boys. They met on the evening of May 9 at Bennington, and made their plans. State nickname: The Constitution State Other U.S. States Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport Governor M. Jodi Rell (R) Senators Chris Dodd (D) Joe Lieberman (D) Official language(s) English Area 14,371 km² (48th)  - Land 12,559 km²  - Water 1,809 km² (12. ... Pittsfield is a city located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. ... Flag of the Green Mountain Boys The Green Mountain Boys were a paramilitary group organized in Western Vermont in the decade prior to the American Revolutionary War. ... Bennington, Vermont The Bennington Battle Monument. ...

Ethan Allen was elected Colonel, with Easton and Seth Warner as his lieutenants. Samuel Herrick was sent to Skenesboro and Asa Douglas to Panton with detachments to secure boats. Allen would march the rest up the lake to a point a few miles below Ticonderoga, to cross there. The council had just parted when Benedict Arnold arrived with orders from the Connecticut committee and insisted that he should be in command. He was generally ignored, but they did let him march up front with Allen. The Bennington Battle Monument with the statue of Seth Warner in front Seth Warner ( May 17, 1743 - December 26, 1784) was born in Roxbury, Connecticut. ... Whitehall, New York is the name of a village and a town in Washington County, New York. ... Panton, Vermont Panton is a town located in Addison County, Vermont. ...

Local volunteers brought their numbers up to about 200. By moonset, they had assembled at Hand's Cove and were ready to cross the lake, but had only two boats secured by Douglas. Eighty-three of the Green Mountain boys piled in with Arnold and Allen and crossed the lake. Douglas went back for the rest. But as dawn approached, fearful of losing the element of surprise, they attacked. Surprising the only sentry on duty at the south gate, they rushed into the crumbling fort. Allen and Arnold charged up the stairs into the officer's quarters, roused the garrison commander from bed, and demanded surrender, which they got. Only one shot was fired, and there were no injuries on either side.

Ticonderoga was not the fortress it had been in 1758, when the French had famously held it from a British attack. It had largely fallen into disrepair and the garrison consisted of only two officers and forty-six men. 1758 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Battle of Carillon was fought at Fort Carillon (later known as Fort Ticonderoga), on the shore of Lake Champlain in what was then the British colony of New York, July 7-July 8, 1758 during the French and Indian War, and resulted in a victory of the French garrison...

Aftermath

Seth Warner marched a detachment up the lakeshore and captured nearby Crown Point, garrisoned by only nine men. On May 12, Allen sent the prisoners to Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull noting that "I make you a present of a Major, a Captain, and two Lieutentants of the regular Establishment of George the Third." Crown Point is a town located in Essex County, New York. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. ...

Arnold took a small schooner and several bateaux from Skenesboro north with 50 volunteers. On May 18 they seized another garrison at Fort St. Johns along with the Enterprise, a seventy ton sloop. Aware that several companies were stationed a twelve miles down river at Chambly, they loaded the more valuable captured supplies and cannon, burned the boats they couldn't take and returned to Crown Point. May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is a city in Quebec, Canada about 50 km southeast of Montreal. ... Chambly is a town in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La-Valée-du-Richelieu. ...

Ethan Allen and his men returned home. Benedict Arnold remained with some Connecticut replacements in command at Ticonderoga. At first the Continental Congress wanted the men and forts returned to the British, but on May 31 they bowed to pressure from Massachusetts and Connecticut and agreed to keep them. Connecticut sent a regiment under Colonel Benjamin Hinman to hold Ticonderoga. When Arnold learned that he was second to Hinman, he resigned his Connecticut commission and went home. The Continental Congress was the legislature of the Thirteen Colonies and later of the United States from 1774 to 1789, a period that included the American Revolutionary War and the Articles of Confederation. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining, as the last day of May. ... State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney (R) Senators Edward Kennedy (D) John Kerry (D) Official language(s) English Area 27,360 km² (44th)  - Land 20,317 km²  - Water 7,043 km² (25. ...

In the winter of 1775-1776, Henry Knox moved the guns of Ticonderoga to Boston, to support the Siege of Boston. The captured ships were used, along with others, in 1776 by then General Arnold to thwart Britain's attempt at recapture in the Battle of Valcour Island. Ticonderoga was retaken by the British Saratoga Campaign in 1777, but abandoned after their surrender at the Battle of Saratoga. This article is about the year 1776. ... Henry Knox Henry Knox (July 25, 1750–October 21, 1806) was an American bookseller from Boston who became the chief Artillery officer of the Continental Army and later the nations first United States Secretary of War. ... For other instances of Boston, see Boston (disambiguation) Boston is the capital and largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. ... The Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 - March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the active American Revolutionary War. ... This article is about the year 1776. ... The Battle of Valcour Island, 11 October 1776, also known as Battle of Valcour Bay, was a naval engagement fought on Lake Champlain in a narrow strait between the New York mainland and Valcour Island. ... The Saratoga Campaign was a 1777 initiative by the British Army in the American Revolutionary War. ... 1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Battle(s) of Saratoga were considered by many historians to have been the turning point of the American Revolutionary War and one of the most decisive battles in history. ...

See also

• Fort Ticonderoga
• Battle of Ticonderoga (1777)

Fort Ticonderoga is a large 18th century fort built at a strategically important narrows in Lake Champlain where a short traverse gives access to the north end of Lake George in the state of New York, USA. The fort controlled both commonly used trade routes between the English-controlled Hudson... For other battles at Fort Ticonderoga, see Battle of Ticonderoga. ...

External link

• Capture of Ticonderoga