Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga, a township of New York, 100 miles by rail N. of Albany, on Lake Champlain, and enclosing the outlet of Lake George, whose falls supply water-power for several factories. Black lead and iron also are mined; and here the lake steamers start. Pop. 3400. Here the French built a fort in 1755, which, after repulsing a first attack in 1758, they dismantled and abandoned in 1759, along with Crown Point. The English enlarged and strengthened both fortresses at a cost of £2,000,000; but, being garrisoned with only 50 men after the cession of Canada to Great Britain, it was in 1775 surprised and captured by Ethan Allen. In 1777 it was recaptured by Burgoyne, and in 1780 it was again occupied by the British; at the close of the war it fell into ruins. See Cook's History of Ticonderoga (1858).