Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

The immediate goal of the attack on the British Forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point on May 10th and 11th, 1775 was, first to capture the forts themselves, but also to get a cannon and supplies to use in the impending siege of Boston. Washington, who was in command of the American forces on July 2, 1775, was not able to attempt this attack without heavy artillery, which was procured by Colonel Ethan Allen, Colonel Benedict Arnold and Colonel Seth Warner with Vermont's Green Mountain Boys. The Green Mountain Boys was the name of a group of soldiers from Vermont led by Allen, Warner, and Arnold. Their name came about from the Green Mountains in Vermont. The Green Mountain Boys were originally started by Ethan Allen before the revolution to protest the claims of the New York government to Vermont territory, and Seth Warner and Benedict Arnold later joined them. Seth Warner was born in Connecticut and later moved to Vermont, in which he was declared an......

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Title: Report On Ticonderoga
Approximate Word Count: 527
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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