Cover: Montcalm Congratulating His Victorious Troops,
Battle of Carillon, Fort Ticonderoga, July 8, 1758.

Fort Ticonderoga: Looking South, Up Lake Champlain

Fort Ticonderoga
A Short History

Compiled from Contemporary Sources
By S. H. P. Pell

Profusely Illustrated

Reprinted for the Fort Ticonderoga Museum
1966

“The little bronze flint and tinder box illustrated,was found in 1888 by the present Museum Director,then a small boy. His brother dislodged a stone whilethey were climbing around the fort. Under the stonewas this box with flint and tinder in it. Bronze and ofFrench design, it must have belonged to some importantofficer, probably Montcalm de Levis, Bougainvilleor Bourlamacque. The busts represent Cupid andPsyche; the faces are extraordinarily beautiful andexpressive. The box measures 2¼ by 1¼ inches.

I consider this box and the back plate for thesuit of half-armor (found a few years ago) the mostinteresting of the thousands of articles found at theFort.

This little box stimulated the Director’s interest.Even as a small boy he hoped some day to preserveand perhaps restore Fort Ticonderoga. Many a yearwas to pass before this dream could become a reality.”

Flint and Tinder Box Which Started the Fort Ticonderoga Collection (Found by S. H. P. Pell, when a small boy)(Drawing by Herbert Sherlock of North Canton, Ohio)
BUSTS in CENTER of TOP and BOTTOM of CASE
BOX OPEN SHOWING INTERIOR
DETAIL of FLOWER DESIGN
and BORDER
REAR of HINGE

CONTENTS

PAGE

The Aborigines, Chapter One 9

Champlain, Chapter Two 11

The Building of the Fort, Chapter Three 19

Abercromby’s Defeat, Chapter Four 27

The Amherst Campaign, Chapter Five 47

The Calm Before the Storm, Chapter Six 53

Ethan Allen, Chapter Seven 54

Montgomery, Knox, Valcour Island, Chapter Eight 67

Burgoyne Takes the Fort and Brown Fails to Retake it, Chapter Nine 83

The Military History Ends, Chapter Ten 91

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