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The name "Ticonderoga" comes from the Iroquois word tekontaró:ken, meaning "it is at the junction of two waterways". [3] During the 1758 Battle of Carillon, 4,000 French defenders were able to repel an attack by 16,000 British troops near the fort. In 1759, the British returned and drove a token French garrison from the fort.
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
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". [4] The Town of Ticonderoga is in the southeastern corner of the county and is south of Plattsburgh.
The Ticonderoga class was originally ordered as guided-missile destroyers, with the designation DDG-47. Under Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Elmo Zumwalt's "high-low mix", the Ticonderogas were intended to be lower-cost platforms for the new Aegis Combat System by mounting the system on a hull based on that of the Spruance-class destroyer.
USS Ticonderoga (DDG/CG-47), nicknamed "Tico", was a guided missile cruiser built for the United States Navy. She was the lead ship of the Ticonderoga class and the first U.S. Navy combatant to incorporate the Aegis combat system .
The term "cruiser", which has been in use for several hundred years, has changed its meaning over time. During the Age of Sail, the term cruising referred to certain kinds of missions—independent scouting, commerce protection, or raiding—usually fulfilled by frigates or sloops-of-war, which functioned as the cruising warships of a fleet.
Although Fort Ticonderoga was not at the time an important military post, its capture had several important results. Rebel control of the area meant that overland communications and supply lines between British forces in Quebec and those in Boston and later New York were severed, so the British military command made an adjustment to their ...
Fort Carillon, presently known as Fort Ticonderoga, was constructed by Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, Governor of New France, to protect Lake Champlain from a British invasion. Situated on the lake some 15 miles (24 km) south of Fort Saint-Frédéric , it was built to prevent an attack on Canada and slow the advance of the enemy long enough for ...