Notable for it natural beauty, Lake Champlain also boasts a ton of interesting history. Share just a snippet of this history as a quick look at an area that should not be missed!

See the following books and websites for more information and further reading:

There is a well-documented description of the early history of this region in David Hatchett Fisher’s book Champlain’s Dream, a study of Samuel De Champlain

For more information regarding the role of Lake Champlain in the war years see:

Valient Ambition: George Washington and Benedict Arnold and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick

 “Lake Champlain: Key to Liberty” by Ralph Nading Hill

 “Benedict Arnolds’s Navy: The Rag Tag Fleet that lost the Battle of Lake

Champlain but won the American Revolution” “by James L. Nelson

https://revolutionarywar.us/year-1776/battle-valcour-island/

There is also a WEBSITE for a good overview of the Saratoga Battles:

https://www.nps.gov/articles/burgoyne-s-campaign-june-october-1777.htm

 See a link to an article in the NY Times regading the downturn affecting Ticonderoga:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/nyregion/04fort.html) in the show notes

For an excellent general over view of the history of Fort Ticonderoga go to Wikipedia at:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ticroga.

 For more information of the strategic maneuvers related to Fort Ticonderoga in the American Revolution see:

“Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys” by Christopher S. Wren 

and

Fort Ticonderoga, The last campaigns: The War in the North, 1777 to 1783 by Mark Edward Lender

The story of the Battle in 1812 can be found in “The Battle of Lake Champlain: A Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory” by John H Schroeder.

For further reading on the native history around Lake Champlain, see the “Western Abernakis of Vermont by Colin G. Calloway.