The expedition was led by Col. Benedict Arnold, and it was a mission created by Gen. George Washington in the first year of the Revolutionary War.
Before it was a state, Maine played a quiet but critical role in the American Revolution. One of its most important routes? The Kennebec River, where Benedict Arnold once led more than a thousand ...
Originally published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in 1938. "Reprinted by arrangement with the Canal National Bank of Portland, Maine." Lt. John Montresor's journal -- Casualty list of Arnold's expedition ...
Two Revolutionary War letters were recently brought together at a museum in upstate New York, exactly 250 years after they were written. Fort Ticonderoga in Essex County, near Lake Champlain, ...