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Tag: Revolutionary War
Northbound & Around | A Tour Guide on Your Phone
Take a trip with our reporter Kevin Cooney through Revolutionary War history with modern day technology. Lakes to Locks, a local organization, provides full audio tours of Revolutionary War landmarks accessible via your smart phone. The in-depth tours provide directions, food & lodging tips, and amazing audio reenactments of historical battles. The tours are available…
American Military Museum
Fort Ticonderoga launches a multi-million dollar fundraising campaign to build a new national war museum. For centuries, since Samuel de Champlain’s exploration in 1609, the lake has been a critical waterway for nations fighting for control of North America. Strategic forts were built on the shores of Lake Champlain at Crown Point & Ticonderoga. Now…
Raising the Spitfire
Nautical Archeologist Art Cohn recommends in a new book a plan that would raise Benedict Arnold’s Revolutionary War gunboat, Spitfire, from the bottom of Lake Champlain. The multi-year, multi-million dollar recommendation would preserve the historic gunboat over several years at a Lake Champlain Maritime Museum conservation lab with plans to then make the gunboat the…
Benedict Arnold: Hero or Villain
A new book looks at Benedict Arnold’s heroics on Lake Champlain during the Battle of Valcour in 1776 that saved America from a British invasion that historians believe would have quashed the rebellion and ended the war in defeat for America. So what led Arnold, the hero of that critical battle, to become a traitor?…
