Lake George Its Scenes And Characteristics With Glimpses of the Olden Times
Lake George Its Scenes And Characteristics With Glimpses of the Olden Times
Benjamin Franklin De Costa
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(2) — Doc. Nist. , N. Y. , i. P. 518.
^.^< REVOLUTIONAHY SCENES.
C II A P T E R A" I I I .
Fort Georgi: — Nordberg — Sciiuyleu — Sickness — BuRGOYXE — Invasion op Northern New York — Peace.
"Wake, soldier, wake ! — tliy wr. R-liorcc waits To bear thee to the battle back.
ASSING on to the year 1775, we find the country in the excitement of a revc- hition, which was inaugurat- ed at Lake George by an earth- quake, which did no harm. But the lake at once became the thea- tre of exciting events, as it still formed a part of the central route between Albany and Montreal. Tlie English felt the importance of keeping possession of this route, and one of their journals of that date says, that, m event of its being held by the Americans, the British troops would be brought around to New York by water, as another campaign could not be thrown away in " frog-battles " on the lakes. Yet Burgoyne ultimately thought diiferently.
■REVOLUTIONARY SCENES. 121 The Americans, however, were on the alert, and the New-Englanders resolved on the seizure of Ticon- deroga, which w^as the key of the whole position.
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