9/27: Crown Point

Today we saw Crown Point, NY. This is one of the places that the guns for Boston were taken from.

The French and the British were two superpowers in Europe. They were two very strong enemies. When they came to the New World they allied with two of the local Indians groups. The French were allied with the Algonquin and the British with Iroquois. In Europe, the Seven Year War was being fought by the French and British, which was a world war, and in America the French and the Algonquin fought the British and the Iroquois in the French and Indian War. The French and British used the Indians for killing off the others' settlers because the British and the French were low on people. Both superpowers wanted to control Lake Champlain because it was a major trade route and was a good way between Canada and the New York. The French built two forts on Lake Champlain. Fort St. Frederic and Fort Ticonderoga were burned by the French, taken by the British, and looted by the Americans. The American wanted the fort because it had cannons. The cannons were needed for the American Revolution because the Americans revolted against the taxes that the British imposed on the Americans to pay off the debt of the French and Indian war.

The French made a Fort called, Fort St. Frederic. The fort was built on British territory. There was a treaty that was called Treaty of Utrecht that set a boundary at Split Rock, which was a little bit north of Crown Point where the French built their fort. The British planned an attack on Fort Frederic but the French abandoned and blow it and it burned. The British started to build another fort and the called it Fort Crown Point. This fort was the largest earthen fort built in America. Then the fort was burned by accident. The reason of the fire was one of the officers wife’s was cooking “pork and pease” when the sparks from the fire got in the chimney and started a chimney fire. The sparks from the chimney fire on the roof and caused the fort to be on fire. The cannons that were at Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga were need for the Siege at Boston. Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold did like each other, so they raced from Fort Ticonderoga to Fort Crown Point to get the cannons and Bendict Arnold won.