Episode 145 Retreat from Ticonderoga

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The American garrison at Fort Ticonderoga make a confused nighttime escape from Fort Ticonderoga, just in time to avoid capture. The bulk of the army marches off into the woods while the sick, wounded and supplies are loaded aboard ships. The next morning, the British fleet chases after the ships, catching up with them at Skenesborough. The American fleet is captured or destroyed. A few soldiers escape to Fort Anne. The British pursue with a small advance force. The Americans counter attack before British reinforcements arrive. When the British reinforcements get to the scene, the Americans withdraw and destroy Fort Ann. Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic. Book Recommendation of the Week: With Musket and Tomahawk, The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777, by Michael O. Logusz Online Recommendation of the Week: The British Invasion from the North: The Campaigns of Generals Carleton and Burgoyne, With the Journal of Lieut. William Digby, by James Phinney Baxter: https://archive.org/details/britishinvasion02digbgoog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.2	Today episode 145 retreat from from Ticonderoga.
0:55.0	Last week we left the British and German forces under General Burgoyne, having nearly
0:59.8	surrounded the Americans at Fort Ticonderoga.
1:03.0	The British had mounted heavy cannons on Mount Defiance,
1:06.0	giving them the ability to fire on the fort and the Americans on Mount Independence
1:11.0	without much fear of return fire.
1:14.0	Inside Fort Ticonderoga, General Arthur Sinclair realized his situation was quickly becoming desperate.
1:22.0	Three enemy deserters filled in the Americans on the size of the force threatening them
1:27.6	and other details which made them realize their predicament.
1:31.6	On July 4th, 1777, the Garrison held a small celebration for the first anniversary of American independence.
1:41.8	Probably greater cause for celebration was the arrival of Colonel Seth Warner with 700
1:47.2	militia from the grants, that is the disputed area that eventually became Vermont.
1:53.0	But even with the new arrivals, the presence of the British on top of Mount Defiance on July 5th meant that the
1:59.9	Garrison was in serious danger. The Americans watched more and more enemy soldiers disembarked and
2:07.1	slowly put a stranglehold on the fort. Sinclair held a council of war on the afternoon of July 5th to decide what to do next.
2:16.8	At the Council was General Matias de Fermoi, who you may recall was the French officer who turned tail and ran at the first sight of the enemy outside Trenton.
2:27.0	Also present was New Hampshire General Enoch Poor, a veteran of the Canada campaign.
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