Fort Ticonderoga

Fort Ticonderoga
(Carillon)

Fort Ticonderoga is one of the most interesting forts I have ever heard of. The fort is very old, it is two hundred forty-two years old!
The word or name Ticonderoga means "land between waters." One of the reasons the British took on the fort is because of the waterways on three sides of it. Still in the French and Indian war in seventeen seventy-three one of the new British forts at Crown Point there was a very disastrous fire. This made Fort Ticonderoga again the center of British operations. Fort Ticonderoga was a very important fort at that time.
Fort Ticonderoga’s first name was not Fort Ticonderoga its first name was Fort Carillon, pronounced (Car-ee-own). Carillon Is a French name because it’s a French Fort. In the year of seventeen fifty-five Michel Chartier de Lotbinier started the construction of Fort Carillon. The fort was built out of logs reinforced with earth, the bastions were eventually faced wit stone quarried nearby. ...