PAGE Fort Ticonderoga Inside Front Cover Flint and Tinder Box 2 Major Robert Rogers and an Indian Chief 4 Airview of Fort Ticonderoga and Surrounding Country 6 Indian Costumes 8 Champlain and the Iroquois, Near Ticonderoga 10 Marquis de Lotbiniere 14 Marquis de Vaudreuil 18 Part of the Original Instructions to de Lotbiniere 20 Major Robert Rogers 22 Wounding of Baron Dieskau 24 Abercromby’s Expedition, Embarking at Head of Lake George 26 The Marquis de Montcalm 28 Brig. General Lord Howe 30 Duc de Levis 32 Plan of Town and Fort (Insert) 32-33 Major General Israel Putnam 34 Replica of the Cross Erected by General Montcalm 44 Montcalm Congratulating His Victorious Troops 45 Major Robert Rogers’ Battle on Snowshoes in 1757 46 Sir Jeffrey Amherst 48 General Amherst and the Burning Fort 50 Ethan Allen 54 Catamount Tavern, Where Plans Were Laid to Capture Fort 57 Ethan Allen and Captain Delaplace 59 Letter from Ethan Allen 60-61 Allen Needs You at Ti 63 Ethan Allen’s Blunderbuss 65 Benedict Arnold 66 Major General Richard Montgomery 68 General Knox 70 General Knox Moving Cannon from Ticonderoga to Cambridge 72 Rig of Fleet at Valcour Island 74 Map of the Attack and Defeat of the American Fleet 76 General Schuyler 78 Major-General Arthur St. Clair 79 Major-General Horatio Gates 80 Ticonderoga and Its Dependencies, 1776 81 The Massacre of Jane McCrea 82 General John Burgoyne 84 The Battle of Saratoga 86 Surrender of Burgoyne 88 George Washington at Halfway Brook 90 Stephen H. P. Pell 92 The Pavilion 94 Fort Ticonderoga and the Pavilion, 1827 96 The Silver Bullet 98 Restoration Model of Fort Ticonderoga 100 Thomas Cole Painting of Fort, Early 1820’s 101 Entrance to Place D’Armes 103 The Place D’Armes 105 Fort Ticonderoga in 1959 107 The Ethan Allen Door 109 George Washington in Uniform of American General 112 Powder Horn Map Made at Mount Independence 1776 114 Flag Bastion 118 Fort Ticonderoga: South Barracks Inside Back Cover
[Illustration: Airview of Fort Ticonderoga Showing Strategic Location of Mount Defiance, Beyond Which Is Lake George]
[Illustration: Indian Costumes, From Lafitau. 1, Iroquois; 2, Algonquin]
When Columbus was landing in the West Indies, and discovering America, the Champlain Valley was thickly populated. There are signs of Indian village sites all along the shores and the thousands of stone implements, arrow and spear points, scrapers, hatchets, pestles and mortars that are turned up each year indicate an occupation of hundreds, probably thousands, of years. But when the first white man arrived all was silence and desolation. The fierce Iroquois from the south had not long before slaughtered the peaceful Algonquin Indians and driven the survivors back into the mountains, where they were living a hand to mouth existence. In fact so degenerate had they become that the Iroquois referred to them as “Adirondacks” or “Bark-eaters,” because of their necessity of depending on the bark of trees during the winter when game was scarce. Remains of these people are so many that for a hundred years arrow heads and other stone implements have been found on the shore of the lake under the walls of the Fort and yet each rain and wind storm discloses new ones. These Indians were a partly agricultural people as shown by the many bits of pottery and hoes that are found, but little is definitely known of them or their habits.