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American Revolution Podcast

Episode 072 Siege of St. Jean

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Generals Schuyler and Montgomery launch an attack from Fort Ticonderoga into British controlled Canada. They lay siege Fort St. Jean. After several months they capture the fort and take prisoner nearly all British regulars in Canada. Afterwards, the Americans capture Montreal without a fight. British Commander Guy Carleton dons a disguise and escapes back to Quebec. He prepares to defend the city against the American forces. Visit https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this week's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today, episode 72, The Siege of St. John.

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When we last looked in at the fighting around Fort Ticonderoga

0:57.8

and Lake Champlain in episodes 59 and 60,

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Colonel Benedict Nardle and Colonel Ethan Allen had captured the fort in May 1775.

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They then captured all of Lake Champlain as far north as St. Jean at the northern end of the lake in Canada.

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There Arnold captured the British dockyard and commandeered the largest ship on the lake.

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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,

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the politicians and armchair generals in Philadelphia, Cambridge, and New Haven

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sent a series of confusing and contradictory orders on what to do next.

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At one point they ordered the Patriots to retreat,

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return the fort to the British and abandon Lake Champlain.

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They also sent bureaucrats to audit Arnold's expenses and a more junior colonel Benjamin

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