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Oct. 4—TICONDEROGA — A felony fugitive led Ticonderoga Town Police on a wild chase that ended with a wreck at a logging site and a foot pursuit through a forest. Andrew J. Rosa, 30 ...
Ticonderoga (/ t aɪ k ɒ n d ə ˈ r oʊ ɡ ə /) is a hamlet in the southeast part of the town of Ticonderoga, in Essex County, New York, United States.The name is derived from the Haudenosaunee term for "between the two waters", the two waters being Lake George and Lake Champlain.
Ticonderoga (/ t aɪ k ɒ n d ə ˈ r oʊ ɡ ə /) is a town in Essex County, New York, United States.The population was 5,042 at the 2010 census. [3] The name comes from the Mohawk tekontaró:ken, meaning "it is at the junction of two waterways".
News of the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and especially the raids on Fort Saint-Jean, electrified the Quebec population. Colonel Dudley Templer, in charge of the garrison at Montreal, issued a call on May 19 to raise a militia for defense of the city, and requested Indians living nearby to also take up arms.
Command at Ticonderoga went through a variety of changes early in 1777. Until 1777, General Philip Schuyler had headed the Continental Army's Northern Department, with General Horatio Gates in charge of Ticonderoga. In March 1777 the Continental Congress gave command of the whole department to Gates. Schuyler protested this action, which ...
A 1777 map depicting Lake Champlain and the upper Hudson River. In 1755, following the Battle of Lake George, the French decided to construct a fort here. Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor of the French Province of Canada, sent his cousin Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to design and construct a fortification at this militarily important site, which the French called Fort Carillon. [9]
Flag of the State of New York. As of 2018, there were 528 law enforcement agencies in New York State employing 68,810 police officers, some agencies employ peace / special officers (about 352 for each 100,000 residents) according to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies.
USS Ticonderoga, five naval vessels of the US Navy; Ticonderoga class, a variant of the US Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier; Ticonderoga-class cruiser; Ticonderoga; Ticonderoga, a museum ship belonging to the Shelburne Museum, formerly operated on Lake Champlain; Ticonderoga II, formerly of the Lake George Steamboat Company