- Historic Sites “in The Name Of The Great Jehovah And The
Continental Congress!” So bellowed Ethan Allen as he took Fort
Ticonderoga without a shot. Once again the brawling giant of the
Green Mountains had lived up to a myth that was indeed
mighty—but no greater, perhaps, than the actual man October 1963
| Volume 14, Issue 6 And indeed the part he has already
determined to take at the earliest possible moment is as
dangerously dramatic as it is politically and militarily
important. What he contemplates amidst the cheerful fumes and
potent furies of the guzzled Stonewalls is nothing less than the
capture with his Green Mountain Boys of the most famous British
strongpoint in North America —Fort Ticonderoga, situated on the
western shore of Lake Champlain at a point commanding the short
portage between Champlain and Lake George. Originally a French
fort called Carillon, it was completed in 1755, its basic design
being that originated by the brilliant French military engineer,
the Marquis de Vauban. Built of sto