Episode 072 Siege of St. Jean
American Revolution Podcast
Michael Troy
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:47.0 | Today, episode 72, The Siege of St. John. |
| 0:54.0 | When we last looked in at the fighting around Fort Ticonderoga |
| 0:57.8 | and Lake Champlain in episodes 59 and 60, |
| 1:01.6 | Colonel Benedict Nardle and Colonel Ethan Allen had captured the fort in May 1775. |
| 1:07.8 | They then captured all of Lake Champlain as far north as St. Jean at the northern end of the lake in Canada. |
| 1:15.0 | There Arnold captured the British dockyard and commandeered the largest ship on the lake. |
| 1:21.0 | He sailed it back to New York before British General Guy Carlton |
| 1:25.3 | could get his regulars down to recapture St. Jean. Following that success, |
| 1:30.8 | the politicians and armchair generals in Philadelphia, Cambridge, and New Haven |
| 1:36.8 | sent a series of confusing and contradictory orders on what to do next. |
| 1:42.4 | At one point they ordered the Patriots to retreat, |
| 1:45.2 | return the fort to the British and abandon Lake Champlain. |
| 1:49.0 | They also sent bureaucrats to audit Arnold's expenses and a more junior colonel Benjamin |
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