This little box stimulated the Director’s interest. Even as a small boy he hoped some day to preserve and perhaps restore Fort Ticonderoga. Many a year was to pass before this dream could become a reality.”
Flint and Tinder Box Which Started the Fort Ticonderoga Collection (Found by S. H. P. Pell, when a small boy) (Drawing by Herbert Sherlock of North Canton, Ohio)
BUSTS in CENTER of TOP and BOTTOM of CASE
BOX OPEN SHOWING INTERIOR
DETAIL of FLOWER DESIGN
and BORDER
REAR of HINGE
CONTENTS
PAGE [The Aborigines, Chapter One] 9 [Champlain, Chapter Two] 11 [The Building of the Fort, Chapter Three] 19 [Abercromby’s Defeat, Chapter Four] 27 [The Amherst Campaign, Chapter Five] 47 [The Calm Before the Storm, Chapter Six] 53 [Ethan Allen, Chapter Seven] 54 [Montgomery, Knox, Valcour Island, Chapter Eight] 67 [Burgoyne Takes the Fort and Brown Fails to Retake it, Chapter Nine] 83 [The Military History Ends, Chapter Ten] 91 [The Restoration of Fort Ticonderoga, Chapter Eleven] 93 [The Fort Ticonderoga Museum] 113 [The Book Shelf] 115 [The Fort Ticonderoga Association] 117
Major Robert Rogers and An Indian Chief
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE [Fort Ticonderoga] Inside Front Cover [Flint and Tinder Box] 2 [Major Robert Rogers and an Indian Chief] 4 [Airview of Fort Ticonderoga and Surrounding Country] 6 [Indian Costumes] 8 [Champlain and the Iroquois, Near Ticonderoga] 10 [Marquis de Lotbiniere] 14 [Marquis de Vaudreuil] 18 [Part of the Original Instructions to de Lotbiniere] 20 [Major Robert Rogers] 22 [Wounding of Baron Dieskau] 24 [Abercromby’s Expedition, Embarking at Head of Lake George] 26 [The Marquis de Montcalm] 28 [Brig. General Lord Howe] 30 [Duc de Levis] 32 [Plan of Town and Fort (Insert)] 32-33 [Major General Israel Putnam] 34 [Replica of the Cross Erected by General Montcalm] 44 [Montcalm Congratulating His Victorious Troops] 45 [Major Robert Rogers’ Battle on Snowshoes in 1757] 46 [Sir Jeffrey Amherst] 48 [General Amherst and the Burning Fort] 50 [Ethan Allen] 54 [Catamount Tavern, Where Plans Were Laid to Capture Fort] 57 [Ethan Allen and Captain Delaplace] 59 [Letter from Ethan Allen] 60-61 [Allen Needs You at Ti] 63 [Ethan Allen’s Blunderbuss] 65 [Benedict Arnold] 66 [Major General Richard Montgomery] 68 [General Knox] 70 [General Knox Moving Cannon from Ticonderoga to Cambridge] 72 [Rig of Fleet at Valcour Island] 74 [Map of the Attack and Defeat of the American Fleet] 76 [General Schuyler] 78 [Major-General Arthur St. Clair] 79 [Major-General Horatio Gates] 80 [Ticonderoga and Its Dependencies, 1776] 81 [The Massacre of Jane McCrea] 82 [General John Burgoyne] 84 [The Battle of Saratoga] 86 [Surrender of Burgoyne] 88 [George Washington at Halfway Brook] 90 [Stephen H. P. Pell] 92 [The Pavilion] 94 [Fort Ticonderoga and the Pavilion, 1827] 96 [The Silver Bullet] 98 [Restoration Model of Fort Ticonderoga] 100 [Thomas Cole Painting of Fort, Early 1820’s] 101 [Entrance to Place D’Armes] 103 [The Place D’Armes] 105 [Fort Ticonderoga in 1959] 107 [The Ethan Allen Door] 109 [George Washington in Uniform of American General] 112 [Powder Horn Map Made at Mount Independence 1776] 114 [Flag Bastion] 118 [Fort Ticonderoga: South Barracks] Inside Back Cover
