Word: ticonderoga
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...Webbs bought eight acres of rolling farmland seven miles south of Burlington and opened their museum the following year. Now a complex of more than 40 acres and 33 buildings, Shelburne contains, among other things, the 220-ft. side-wheeler Ticonderoga, which was shipped overland from nearby Lake Champlain, the jail from Castleton, Vt., the Colchester Reef lighthouse, a fully equipped 19th century pharmacy, and a Victorian railroad depot. Some of the buildings had to be dismantled to be moved and painstakingly reassembled at Shelburne. Such difficulties do not deter Mrs. Webb. "Please, Mother,'' one of her five...
...rectangular box in which letters of various sizes were arranged in an attractively confusing pattern. Underneath was printed a small clue: "This upstate village is a peaceful residential area. Its chief claim to fame is that than Allen and his troops slept here on the way to Ticonderoga." The solution was the name of a city, town or village in New York State...
Bush Fighters. As the woodsman became bolder, his sorties changed from mere reconnaissance missions to raids in force. The commando warfare was brand-new to the British and confounding to the French. A Rogers raid against Ticonderoga in December 1757 was typical of his methods. In weather that would have clogged ordinary troop movements, Rogers led 150 men through the untracked forest, ranged them about the fort, and, when the French refused to stir outside, slaughtered their cattle and burned their wood supplies, leaving a receipt for what he had destroyed...
...middle 19th century, Vermonters occasionally wondered whether their cherished Green Mountains might not disappear beneath a new deluge of alcoholic spirits. Vermont Hero Ethan Allen and his hardy band had stormed Fort Ticonderoga smelling of rum; then more and more Green Mountain men were descending "The Fatal Ladder," (see cut) whose first step down was a social swig of hard cider. "Everybody asked everybody to drink," remarked an 1830 observer. "There were drunken lawyers, drunken doctors, drunken members of Congress, drunken ministers." Today, recovered from rum and soberly situated in the middle 20th century, Vermont has begun to worry about...
...center for it briefly. In one of its rooms the Committee on Safety planned the army the Congress had authorized, while in another the high command--at least until Washington arrived--settled its immediate strategy. Captain Benedict Arnold appeared with a Connecticut company to broach a plan for taking Ticonderoga. General Artemas Ward made the house his headquarters, planning the defense of Bunker Hill during his stay, and General Warren, who conducted it, slept there on the eve of battle...