Fort Ticonderoga

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Not all history is in the archives.

Fort Ticonderoga`s curator is currently in London conducting research and meeting with colleagues, but came across an unexpected place with a special connection to Ticonderoga`s history.

It was here at the Church of St Mary-le-Bow that William Delaplace married Sarah Cooper in 1752. As a Captain in the 26th Regiment of Foot, William was famously captured at Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775... and so was Sarah. Having brought his family to America, William and Sarah, and their children, were only the most notable of the many families captured as part of America`s first victory.

After being exchanged they returned to England sometime in 1777, eventually moving north to Leeds, no doubt carrying with them complicated memories of America. Sarah lived to the age of 78, dying 1801. William outlived her another seven years.

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Happy #TradesTuesday!
Artificer Interpreter, Jul LeCours, is making a bell tent! This bell tent will help our staff store our arms during our living history, and reenactment events. Bell tents were used by all armies, though they varied in their details. Here in the detail of the painting “Camp of the Royal Roussillon Regiment” (housed in the Fort Ticonderoga Collections), you can see how these bell tents were used. Stay tuned as we complete this project!
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Follow the link in bio to view the full painting in our collection database.
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Thank you for all of the donations so far today for #GivingTuesday! Our goal of $20,000 is for the conservation of this oil on canvas, full-length portrait of Frances (Fanny) Montresor-Buchanan-Allen-Penniman c.1771.

Fanny’s portrait will be featured in Fort Ticonderoga’s upcoming 250th Anniversary exhibition "A REVOLUTIONARY ANTHOLOGY" opening in the spring of 2024.

This portrait, and Fanny`s story, will bring a voice to the tumultuous experiences of women during the Revolutionary era.

NO DONATION IS TOO SMALL! https://www.fortticonderoga.org/join-and-support/donate/

Learn more about Fanny and this exhibit: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/a-fragile-portrait-a-story-of-strength/

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Today we celebrate #GivingTuesday, an opportunity to say THANK YOU to our supporters, online followers, and Fort Ticonderoga`s thousands of visitors, for helping us fulfill our mission of education and preservation.

Please join us in supporting Fanny’s goal of $20,000 for the conservation of this oil on canvas, full-length portrait of Frances (Fanny) Montresor-Buchanan-Allen-Penniman c.1771.

This portrait and Fanny`s story will be featured in Fort Ticonderoga’s upcoming 250th Anniversary exhibition entitled, A REVOLUTIONARY ANTHOLOGY, opening in the spring of 2024. Thsi exhibit will bring a voice to the tumultuous experiences of women during the Revolutionary era.

DONATE NOW! Www.fortticonderoga.org/join-and-support/donate/

Learn more about Fanny and this exhibit by clicking the link in our bio: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/news/a-fragile-portrait-a-story-of-strength/

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Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Several documents in Fort Ticonderoga’s collections are accompanied by hand-drawn images. They may have been added by their authors to better convey ideas, record impressions and experiences, or just for amusement. Today’s manuscript, MS.7204, demonstrates the ways that drawings enrich texts and provide important documentary evidence. MS.7204 is the first volume in the journal of James Murray Hadden, a lieutenant in the British Army’s 2nd Battalion of Royal Artillery during the Revolutionary War. This volume, dated between March 4, 1776 and July 29, 1777, describes Hadden’s journeys through Quebec, his involvement in the Battle of Valcour Island, and his experience as part of General John Burgoyne’s army in the 1777 Saratoga Campaign. The journal includes several small drawings, such as the sketch of a boat seen here. The accompanying text, from an entry written on June 18, 1777 as Burgoyne’s army sailed up Lake Champlain, describes how sailors protected themselves from the elements at night: “The Men put up two lashed Oars at each end and by means of a Fifth communicating with these spread the Sail over them, which proved a sufficient defense against most Rains.” Hadden’s sketch allows the less spatially-inclined to picture how this covering worked and gives an idea of what his transport vessel looked like. Other drawings in the journal were much more elaborate, like this painstakingly labeled map of Ticonderoga and its works. Hadden may have had military maps at hand when drawing his own map, but he also had his own firsthand experience of the terrain as part of the army that captured the fort. Some of the markings on the map mark the locations of British units during their occupation of the fort. The map is also marked by Hadden’s experience in another way: while most maps of Ticonderoga are oriented conventionally with north at the top, Hadden, who approached Ticonderoga from the north, puts south near the top of his map.

These documents can be found on our online database in the links in bio. https://fortticonderoga.pastperfectonline.com/archive/893B624C-3AF6-413D-8D62-607634743176