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Hello, and thanks for joining Revolution 250, where we look at events that took place 250 years ago this week.

This is from the American Revolution podcast, and it's just a short bonus episode to remind you about these important anniversaries from the Revolutionary War.

This week, we remember the capture of Fort Ticonderoga.

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setup. At the outbreak of the war, Benedict Arnold was a captain in the Connecticut militia.

Shortly after receiving word of Lexington and conquered, he marched his company to the siege of Boston.

While he and his men were on the march,

Arnold met up with Connecticut militia colonel Samuel Parsons, who was also a member of the Connecticut

legislature. Parsons was returning from Cambridge to Connecticut, and he stopped to tell Arnold

about the situation that he had just seen in Cambridge. The two men discussed the fact that

the provincial army was going to need cannons if they wanted any hope of taking Boston by force.

Arnold mentioned to Parsons that there were a large number of cannons at Fort Triconderoga in New York,

which the British kept under only a nominal guard.

Arnold had traveled to Tagondroga on multiple occasions as a merchant.

The two men parted their ways, and Parsons continued back to Hartford, Connecticut.

There he met with Silas Dean, another legislator, who had served in the First Continental Congress.

On their own, these two men decided to allocate

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