Lincoln’s Lincoln: A Revolutionary Hero and the Sword that Made America highlights how the community came to be named.
“Return of an Army” is meticulously designed using contemporary letters, journals and drawings to reflect the conditions of 1776 and is the centerpiece of Fort Ticonderoga’s full season of 250th anniversary programming.
The Marquis Theater in Middlebury was transported back 250 years as Revolutionary War re-enactors filled the movie house in a drive to recruit members for Col. Seth Warner’s Regiment.
On Saturday, June 15, Friederike Baer, author of “Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War,” will give a talk about the subject of her book at the Mount Independence State Historic Site in Orwell.
Oct. 19, 1781, is a fairly well known date in United States history. On that day British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to French and American forces at Yorktown, Va., marking the beginning of the end of the Revolutionary War.
It was on March 25, 1777, that a patriotic, 49-year-old Silas Stone decided to leave the family farm in Dublin, N.H., to begin what he thought would be a three-year hitch in the Continental Army.
Fort Ticonderoga will pay tribute to the men and women who lost their lives in service to their country during the American Revolution.
Many of the historic objects are fragments of necessary items used by the soldiers at Mount Independence.
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