by SWCA E-mail gateway | Jun 11, 2010 | History
During the spring of 1759 as Amherst was taking command on Lake George, British Major General James Wolfe with a another large army at Fort Louisbourg, now under the Union Jack, planned an assault on the French city of Quebec. Assisted by the royal navy, Wolfe’s...
by | Jun 10, 2010 | History
By 1763, the community of West Hoosac was already taking advantage of the optimism that comes with the sense of physical safety. Between 1753 and the year the town was renamed, the population grew from twenty-five persons in thirteen houses, to two-hundred eighty...
by | Jun 9, 2010 | History
In February, 1775, Pittsfield delegate to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, John Brown, was sent to Canada to sound out sentiment there for taking action against the British. On the way he passed by Fort Ticonderoga at the northern end of Lake George, and noticed...
by | Jun 8, 2010 | History
During the summer and fall of 1775, Allen’s and Arnold’s escapades continued in the north, including a grandiose plan to conquer Canada, but more on that below. Meanwhile, on July 3, 1775, George Washington was appointed by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia to...
by | Jun 7, 2010 | History
By November, 1776, Washington’s army, defeated in the Battles of Long Island and White Plains, was finally compelled to abandon New York, which the British then occupied with a heavy concentration of forces. As the Americans retreated south across New Jersey into...
