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The ruins of the Officers' Quarters at last British fort at Crown Point on the Hudson River in Upstate New York.
Crown Point's significan...
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The ruins of the Officers' Quarters at last British fort at Crown Point on the Hudson River in Upstate New York.
Crown Point's significance in American history is great: at this point, at the southern end of Lake Champlain, the river narrows to approximately 1-4 of a mile, meaning that an artillery battery here would have controlled all river traffic.
A kitchen fire that spread destroyed most of the fort and it was abandoned in 1763, but still held a level of importance.
During the French and Indian War, Major Robert Rogers used it as a training area and a jumping-off point for his Rangers' expedition against the renegade Abenacki indian village at St Francis that is chronicled in Kenneth Roberts's wonderful historical novel "Northwest Passage", and was also used as a resting place for the remnants of General Benedict Arnold's fleet of gun boats after his delaying action of the Battle of Valcour Island in October of 1776, during the American War of Independence
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Crown Point's significance in American history is great: at this point, at the southern end of Lake Champlain, the river narrows to approximately 1-4 of a mile, meaning that an artillery battery here would have controlled all river traffic.
A kitchen fire that spread destroyed most of the fort and it was abandoned in 1763, but still held a level of importance.
During the French and Indian War, Major Robert Rogers used it as a training area and a jumping-off point for his Rangers' expedition against the renegade Abenacki indian village at St Francis that is chronicled in Kenneth Roberts's wonderful historical novel "Northwest Passage", and was also used as a resting place for the remnants of General Benedict Arnold's fleet of gun boats after his delaying action of the Battle of Valcour Island in October of 1776, during the American War of Independence
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