Open skirmishing begins on the outer defense…

July 1777 CE

Open skirmishing begins on the outer defense works of Ticonderoga on July 2.

By July 4, most of the American garrison is either at Fort Ticonderoga or nearby Mount Independence, the extensive fortifications on the Vermont side of the lake.

Unknown to the Americans, their withdrawal from an outer defensive position clears a way for the British to place artillery on the hilltop known then as Sugar Loaf (now Mount Defiance), whose heights command the fort.

St. Clair withdraws the night after spotting British cannon on Sugar Loaf on July 5, and Burgoyne's men occupy the main fortification and the positions on Mount Independence on July 6.

The uncontested surrender of the supposedly impregnable fort causes a public and political uproar.

Although a later investigation will clear both Schuyler and St. Clair of any wrongdoing in the withdrawal, it will cause the Continental Congress to replace Schuyler with General Horatio Gates as commander of the Northern Department of the Continental Army in August.

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Fort Ticonderoga Essex New York United States View →

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Arthur St. Clair View → Barry St. Leger View → Friedrich Adolf Riedesel View → George Washington View → Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester View → Horatio Gates View → Israel Putnam View → John Burgoyne View → Philip Schuyler View → Seth Warner View → Simon Fraser View → William Phillips View →

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Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations) View → Hesse-Kassel, Landgraviate of View → Brunswick-Lüneburg, Electorate of (Electorate of Hanover) View → Hessians View → British people View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → Quebec (British Province) View → New York, independent state of View → United States of America (US, USA) (Philadelphia PA) View → Americans View → New Hampshire, State of (U.S.A.) View → Vermont, Republic of View →

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American Revolution View → American Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence View → Fort Ticonderoga, 1777 Siege of View → Saratoga Campaign View →

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