General Horatio Gates, given command of the…
October 1776 CE
The army has been busied improving the defenses at Ticonderoga, while Arnold has been given the task of building up the American fleet at Crown Point.
Throughout the summer, reinforcements have poured into Ticonderoga, until the army is estimated to be ten thousand strong.
A smaller army of shipwrights has labored at Skenesborough (present-day Whitehall) to build the ships needed to defend the lake.
Carleton had begun to move on October 7.