Fort Ticonderoga

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Find inspiration and create family memories as we celebrate America’s 250th! World class exhibits, thrilling weapons demos, epic battle reenactments and hands-on activities connect you to America’s story. Enjoy stunning views from aboard the Carillon boat and our historic gardens.

It's a beautiful, misty morning of sleepy bees and peonies, our Flower of the Week. In addition to peonies, goatsbeard a...
06/09/2026

It's a beautiful, misty morning of sleepy bees and peonies, our Flower of the Week. In addition to peonies, goatsbeard and delphiniums are both approaching full bloom in the King's Garden.

As Fort Ticonderoga commemorates the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, our 2026 Author Series programs focus...
06/09/2026

As Fort Ticonderoga commemorates the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, our 2026 Author Series programs focus on the events of the American Revolution. The next Fort Ticonderoga Author Series on Sunday, June 14th, features Kenneth Scarlett, author of "Victory Day! Winning American Independence ." Free for members. Register here:

https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/virtual-author-series-featuring-john-u-rees/

On June 6, 1776—250 years ago today—the situation in Canada was in such upheaval that when General Philip Schuyler wrote...
06/06/2026

On June 6, 1776—250 years ago today—the situation in Canada was in such upheaval that when General Philip Schuyler wrote to the army in the field, he could not be entirely sure who the recipient would be. After the siege of Quebec was broken in early May, the army had begun a chaotic retreat. American reinforcements, including a new commander, Major General John Thomas, had arrived in Canada just in time to join the retreat; many of them promptly caught smallpox.

For Schuyler, the commander of the Northern Department, keeping track of a situation in flux hundreds of miles to the north cannot have been easy. However, communicating with the Canadian army was vital, especially since their retreat would lead them to Fort Crown Point and Ticonderoga. Schuyler addressed his letter to “The Honble General Thomas or Officer commanding in Canada”, trying to ensure that his requests reached someone who could carry them out.

Schuyler hoped that the retreating army could bring vital supplies along with it: “I again beg Leave to repeat the Necessity of securing all the Nails you possibly can… and all the Goods you can, as we begin sensibly to feel the want of a variety of articles.” Schuyler was also aware of the possibility that the British would follow the Americans south into New York. To hinder their plans and make it more difficult for them to build a fleet on Lake Champlain, he recommended that “If any Timber plank or Boards are any where in the Country… I think they ought to be destroyed… Saw Mills too should be rendered useless”.

Schuyler’s caution in his address line was well-founded. General Thomas had died on June 2, another victim of the army’s smallpox epidemic. General William Thompson was the next senior officer and would have assumed command but had been captured after the Battle of Trois-Rivieres on June 8, likely before this letter reached camp. The letter was probably forwarded to yet another new commander, General John Sullivan, who took up the baton and organized the American retreat.

Learn more about this letter (object ID MS.2001.0010.001) on the Ticonderoga Online Collections database: https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/29416

Fort Ticonderoga seeks proposals for the Sixteenth Annual Virtual "Material Matters: It's in the Details" conference on ...
06/05/2026

Fort Ticonderoga seeks proposals for the Sixteenth Annual Virtual "Material Matters: It's in the Details" conference on January 23, 2027. Proposals relating broadly to material culture made, used, or altered in a military context are welcome. From soldiers’ encounters with domestic furnishings on campaign to the weapons designed and built for battle, military history and material culture are profoundly connected. Submissions are due July 1, 2026. See the Call for Papers at this link: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/call-for-papers-2/

The King's Garden is gorgeous this spring morning, with peonies, columbine, iris, lemon lilies, delphiniums, and our Flo...
06/04/2026

The King's Garden is gorgeous this spring morning, with peonies, columbine, iris, lemon lilies, delphiniums, and our Flower of the Week, poppies!
Don't forget our King's Garden Plant Sale, Saturday June 6, from 10 a.m. -3 p.m.

On May 19, 1776, the 400-man American garrison at the Cedars, near Montreal, surrendered to a British and Haudenosaunee ...
06/04/2026

On May 19, 1776, the 400-man American garrison at the Cedars, near Montreal, surrendered to a British and Haudenosaunee force. On May 20, a 140-man relief force on its way to the Cedars was defeated and captured by the Haudenosaunee as well. The affair was chaotic and humiliating for the Americans, who saw about 500 men captured by a force barely half that size. By June 4, 1776—250 years ago today—the Continental Army was looking into the causes of the disaster.

On June 4, the relief party’s commander, Major Henry Sherburne, and other officers from the party gave a deposition. The men shared the difficulties they faced on their journey to the Cedars. They were first delayed in crossing the Ottawa River by a lack of available boats: the fort at St. Anne’s, their crossing point, had only one bateau and a few canoes.

After crossing the river on May 18, “a Letter was received from Capt. Bliss [a scout they had sent ahead], acquainting of his being a Prisoner, likewise that 500 Canadians and Indians were within Two or Three miles of us…it was thought most prudent to retreat.” They tried to set out again on May 19, but high winds made a river crossing impossible. Only on May 20 could they make the crossing, soon meeting the Haudenosaunee and being forced to surrender.

A deposition given by Captain Samuel Young, commander of St. Anne’s, tells a different story. Young describes himself as urging the party to hurry but being repeatedly ignored by the timid, slow-moving Sherburne. He claims to have argued, correctly, that the numbers in Bliss’s letter were inflated: “I [gave] it as my Opinion that Capt. Bliss was obliged to write as he did to prevent the party from going to the Cedars but if they went over speedily they might… Save him, & the Cedars”. Despite Young’s criticism of him, Sherburne was never blamed by the army for his actions at the Cedars and continued to serve in the Continental Army until 1781.

Learn about Sherburne’s (object ID 2001.0009.005A) and Young’s depositions (2001.0009.005B) on the Ticonderoga Online Collections database: https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/29411 https://fortticonderoga.catalogaccess.com/archives/29412

She was a Patriot poet. He was a British officer. Learn about the incredible relationship of Jacob and Hannah Schieffeli...
06/03/2026

She was a Patriot poet. He was a British officer. Learn about the incredible relationship of Jacob and Hannah Schieffelin through several objects in our newest exhibit (and behind-the-scenes video)!

Born in Philadelphia, Jacob Schieffelin’s family moved to Montreal in 1760. As the Revolutionary War began Jacob moved to Detroit, serving as a Loyalist officer in the Detroit Volunteers. In 1778, Schieffelin was deployed to Fort Sackville in Vincennes, Indiana. He was captured with the British garrison in 1779 and forced on an arduous march to Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1780, after seven months of confinement, he escaped and eventually got to British-held New York.

Jacob was quartered with a Quaker family whose oldest daughter Hannah Lawrence was a poet and advocate for the American cause. However unlikely the pair was, they fell in love and were married against her parents’ wishes.

The following month, the Schieffelins began a remarkable journey back to Detroit in the middle of the war. Following the peace, they ultimately returned to New York in 1794. Now a citizen of the nation he had fought against, Schieffelin took up his in-laws' apothecary business until his death in 1835.

Watch our newest video with curator Dr. Matthew Keagle and Exhibit Designer & Fabricator T.J. Mullen, and be sure to see these incredible objects in person in A Revolutionary Anthology: Revolutionary Possibilities, on view through October 25, 2026!

https://youtu.be/Rwg3an84RHk?si=3XhSJi1RHvhpS3MO

As Fort Ticonderoga commemorates the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, our 2026 Author Series programs focus...
06/03/2026

As Fort Ticonderoga commemorates the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, our 2026 Author Series programs focus on the events of the American Revolution. The next Fort Ticonderoga Author Series on Sunday, June 14th, features Kenneth Scarlett, author of "Victory Day! Winning American Independence ." Free for members. Register here:

https://www.fortticonderoga.org/ft_events/virtual-author-series-featuring-john-u-rees/

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