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The Ethan Allen was a 40-foot, glass-enclosed tour boat [1] operated by Shoreline Cruises on Lake George in upstate NewOn October 2, 2005, at 2:55 p.m. local time, with 47 passengers—mostly seniors—aboard, the Ethan Allen capsized and sank just south of Cramer Point in the Town of Lake George.
Hand's Cove, Summer 1964. Hand's Cove is a historically significant geographic feature on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain in Shoreham, Vermont.It was from this area that colonial forces led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold crossed the lake for the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, early in the American Revolutionary War.
On May 10, 1775, shortly after the American Revolutionary War began, Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen led an expedition that captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain in the British Province of New York. [1] Allen and Arnold were aware that Quebec was lightly defended; there were only about 600 regular troops in the entire province. [2]
USS Spitfire was an American gundalow that operated as a gunboat in 1776 on Lake Champlain.She was part of Benedict Arnold's small, hastily built fleet of ships whose purpose was to counter any British invasion forces passing through the lake from Canada.
The original Green Mountain Boys were a militia organized in what is now southwestern Vermont in the decade prior to the American Revolutionary War.They comprised settlers and land speculators who held New Hampshire titles to lands between the Connecticut River and Lake Champlain, an area then known as the New Hampshire Grants, that is now modern Vermont.
Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long lost jet in Lake Champlain. Initial ...
It was the first settlement at Lake Champlain and became an important trade center. It was on one of two routes between English and French colonies. On May 9, 1775, Lieutenant Samuel Herrick, leading as an advance party for Benedict Arnold's and Ethan Allen's attack on Fort Ticonderoga, surprised Major Skene and his small garrison. While he ...
Ethan Allen and his men eventually drifted away from Ticonderoga, especially once the alcohol began to run out, and Arnold largely controlled affairs from a base at Crown Point. [ 34 ] [ 44 ] He oversaw the fitting of the two large ships, eventually taking command of Enterprise because of a lack of knowledgeable seamen.