Monday, December 28, 2015

Mount Independence And Fort Ticonderoga


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Ancestor John Backus participated in this theater of war according to his Revolutionary War pension application:

The regt marched to Albany and was there at Christmas and New Years day and then went from there to Ticonderoga has been then but a short time when he was placed in a redout a short distance from the main fort as an artillerist together with others of the same regiment. 

During the winter there was much work done in making something like a bridge across a marsh or a part of the lake from the fort to the foot of mount independence... . 


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