Fort Ticonderoga: key to a continent

Fort Ticonderoga: key to a continent is a short film from 1959 released on 16mm. It is held in the IUL Moving Image Archive collection.

Explains the importance of events which occurred in and around the Lake Champlain area in the eighteenth century. Discusses reasons for France, England, and later the colonists' fighting for Fort Tico...

Fort Ticonderoga: key to a continent
Release date	1959

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Summary

Explains the importance of events which occurred in and around the Lake Champlain area in the eighteenth century. Discusses reasons for France, England, and later the colonists' fighting for Fort Ticonderoga. Shows the significance of the waterways controlled by the fort. Describes the capture of the fort for the colonists by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold.

Physical Format

1 Film (0:15:38) :16mm

IUL Genres

Educational :Historical

IUL Subject

Ticonderoga, Battle of, N.Y., 1758.

Full Title (usually this is the same as above)

Fort Ticonderoga: key to a continent