Word: ticonderoga
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Some are dragged through the door asking for just a little more time. Mussolini (to his executioner): "But . . . but . . . Mr. Colonel." Pope Alexander VI: "I come. It is right. Wait a moment." When a parson told Ethan Allen (a religious man who took Fort Ticonderoga "in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress") that the angels were waiting for him, Allen exploded: "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, God damn 'em, let 'em wait...
...saved from committing his unwieldly, untrained and dwindling force to an assault on Boston by long-suffering gangs of soldiers, who dragged heavy cannon over the snow all the way from old Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain to Boston. When the cannon were mounted on Dorchester Heights, the British sailed away to Halifax...
...marksmen gathered at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. were a strange-looking group, dressed in checked shirts and funny hats. One man wore a skunk pelt on his head, another sported a black sombrero with a feather stuck in the band. The firearms were out of the ordinary too: long-barreled pistols, archaic-looking rifles decorated with carvings, etched designs and inlays. They were all old-style muzzle-loaders-flintlocks or caplocks*-and the oddly hatted people were devoted muzzle-loader fans...
...spite of all the trouble, the National Muzzle Loading Association has some 6,000 members. Their principal shoot is held in late summer at Friendship, Ind., but the most devoted also get together for a yearly shoot at Fort Ticonderoga. This year 85 true believers made the trip, spent a smoky weekend happily blazing away at National Rifle Association small-bore targets. "They're all crazy," commented a Ticonderoga resident (no muzzle-loader fan), "but they have...
After forcing the evacuation of Fort Ticonderoga on July 5, 1777, Burgoyne gave the retreating Americans a good drubbing. But it took him three long weeks to cover 20 miles, as colonial axmen destroyed bridges and felled trees across his path...