Word: ticonderoga
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...come next to Garden street and the Cambridge common. Here are the Soldiers' Monument, (the figure of which never had a hat on but once, and then when the pitying students helped him to it) and three large cannon which were captured from the French at Quebec and Ticonderoga, in the French and Indian wars. At the further end of the common, just in front of the Shepard Memorial (Cong.) church, is the old Washington elm, with the stone slab before it, on which we read, "Under this tree Washington first took command of the American army, July...