1759 Relief & Refit
General Amherst’s Soldiers Regroup at Ticonderoga
August 4th& 5th 2012
With Fort Carillon captured without a single shot and a 3 month siege averted, the British and Provincial soldiers of General Amherst encamped on the ruins newly christened Fort Ticonderoga. As supplies arrived from up Lake George, artillery, supplies, and even whole bateaux were hauled by the wagon load onto Lake Champlain for the drive north. Supplies were stockpiled for a potential protracted siege of Fort Saint Frederic, as ship carpenters and soldiers alike worked on building armed galleys to control the lake in a new shipyard down below Ticonderoga. Rangers and light infantry scouted up the lake as rumors spread amongst the American and British soldiers about General Wolfe at Quebec. In this British living history we will recreate and practice the regular, naval, and ranging elements of this Army as it prepared to move on towards Canada in August of 1759.
