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Valcour Island is a 968-acre (3.92 km 2) [1]: 6 island in Lake Champlain in Clinton County, New York, United States. [2] The island is mostly in the Town of Peru and partly in the Town of Plattsburgh , southeast of the City of Plattsburgh .
A 1776 map showing the Battle of Valcour Bay. Valcour Island, located in Lake Champlain, is roughly rectangular in shape, extending 2 miles (3.2 km) from its northern to southern tips. It is located about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of the New York state shoreline to the west.
A map detail showing the formations at the Battle of Valcour Island. General Horatio Gates was given command of the Continental Army's northern forces in early July. He promptly moved the bulk of the army to Ticonderoga, leaving a force of about 300 at Crown Point.
Valcour Bay: Valcour Bay: October 15, 1966 : 7 miles (11 km) south of Plattsburgh on the west shore of Lake Champlain: Plattsburgh: Site of Battle of Valcour Island during Revolutionary War: 50: Valcour Island Lighthouse: Valcour Island Lighthouse
The Battle of Valcour Island, also known as the Battle of Valcour Bay, was a naval engagement that took place on October 11, 1776, on Lake Champlain. The main action took place in Valcour Bay , a narrow strait between the New York mainland and Valcour Island .
For almost sixty years, the Victorian style lighthouse and its fifth order Fresnel lens guided ships through the channel between Valcour Island and New York State. [5] As was the case with many other lighthouses, the lighthouse keeper for Bluff Point Light was a disabled Civil War veteran , Major William Herwerth, who worked at the lighthouse ...
Detail of a 1776 map depicting ship positions in the Battle of Valcour Island. Arnold then spent the summer of 1776 coordinating the construction of a flotilla of small warships and gunboats at Skenesborough, to delay the British further by denying them free access to the lake. The British responded by building a much larger lake flotilla at ...
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.