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Hello. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

Today episode 60 securing Lake Champlain.

Last week we left Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen in control of Fort Ticonderoga fighting with each other and neither really knowing what to do next.

A Fort Ticonderoga sits at the southern tip of Lake Champlain.

British troops in Montreal or Quebec could move down the St Lawrence River and then down the Richelieu River to arrive at the

northern end of the lake for an assault to retake Ticonderoga.

Now Arnold and Alan were both men who did not sit around on their laurels.

They quickly decided that the best offense was a good offense and that they needed to take control of all of Lake Champlain in order to prevent an attack on

Ticonderoga. They also did not want British troops threatening the settlement

on the eastern banks of the lake where most of the Green Mountain Boys lived.

They needed to act before the British under General Carlton in Quebec could arrange any

sort of counter-attack. Within days of the capture of Tychondaroga on May 10th, the Patriots

secured a decent-sized ship named the Betsy, which they promptly renamed the Liberty.

The sloop had belonged to a well-known Tory named Richard Skeen of Skeensboro.

Now both Arnold and Alan claimed credit for its capture. Neither of them were personally involved, but troops

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