America, picturesque and descriptive . rd on Lake Cham-plain, as among their most important posts, command-ing the route to the new Dominion. Both weregreatly enlarged and strengthened, over $10,000,000being expended upon them, an enormous sum forthat day, so that they became the most elaborateBritish fortresses in the American colonies, the cit-adel and field works of Ticonderoga including anarea of several square miles, having buildings andbarracks and defensive constructions anterior to theRevolution, coveiing almost the entire surface. In1763 France ceded Canada to England, and after-wards
America, picturesque and descriptive . rd on Lake Cham-plain, as among their most important posts, command-ing the route to the new Dominion. Both weregreatly enlarged and strengthened, over $10,000,000being expended upon them, an enormous sum forthat day, so that they became the most elaborateBritish fortresses in the American colonies, the cit-adel and field works of Ticonderoga including anarea of several square miles, having buildings andbarracks and defensive constructions anterior to theRevolution, coveiing almost the entire surface. In1763 France ceded Canada to England, and after-wards Ticonderoga was neglected and partially de-cayed. When the Revolution began in 1775 it wasone of the earliest strongholds captured by the Amer-icans. Ethan Allen, with eighty men, crossed overLake Champlain from Vermont, surprised the smalland unsuspecting garrison of fifty men in the night,and Allen, penetrating to the bedside of the aston-ished commandant, made his fiimous speech demand-ing surrender. In whose name ? asked the sur-. NEW YORK T r >v> .. PV ncms TICONDEROGA. 291 prised officer. In the name of the great Jehovahand the Continental Congress. The Americans lieklit for two years, when Burgoyne, on his southernmarch in 1777, besieged it, and discovering thatMount Defiance, not then in the works, completelycommanded it, he dragged cannon up there anderected batteries, which soon compelled the garrisonto abandon it, and the British were in possessionuntil the war closed. Ticonderoga has since fallen into utter decay, butparts of the ruins are now preserved as a nationalmemorial. A portion of Avail and a dilapidated gableenclosing a Avindow still stand, and make a pictur-esque ruin on top of a high slope rising from LakeChamplain, with a background of timbered forests to the Avest and south have grownduring the nineteenth century, and are full of theremains of the old redoubts and dry ditches are traced beyond the ram-p
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