TheWallStreetJournal: 18th cent. war letters donated to Fort Ticonderoga
TICONDEROGA, N.Y. — Old documents describing the last military engagement to occur at Fort Ticonderoga have been donated to the upstate New York historic site.
Officials at the tourist attraction in the eastern Adirondacks say the four letters were drafted by an American brigadier general and relate to the raid on Fort Ticonderoga in 1777, during the Revolutionary War.
American forces had evacuated the fort as a British army approached from Canada. American soldiers returned to attack the British-held fort and other redcoats on nearby Mount Independence on Sept. 18, 1777.
The donated manuscripts give details of the fighting, which was the last time the fort was directly fired upon. When the war ended, Fort Ticonderoga's days as an active military post were over.
The fort is home to one of America's largest collections of 18th-century military documents and artifacts.
