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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An unincorporated community of northeast New York between Lake George and Lake Champlain. Fort Carillon, built by the French in 1755, was taken in 1759 by the British, who renamed it Fort Ticonderoga. American Revolutionary troops captured the fort in May 1775, but it was later abandoned without a struggle to British forces in July 1777 during the Saratoga Campaign.
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- noun a pitched battle in which American revolutionary troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775
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Examples
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I was over in Ticonderoga and saw a monument erected to the officers and the men of the Black Watch, some of whom fell during the Revolutionary War.
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The spectre tells him that he will die at a place called Ticonderoga, but such a word is known to no man, and yet, when Pitt sends a Highland regiment, in which Captain Cameron is an officer, to the East, the doomed man sees his own wraith look at him from the water, and knows, when he hears the place is Ticonderoga, he will be the first to fall in battle there.
Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black
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The French and their allies are not only in great force at Crown Point, but we hear that they mean to fortify also at the place called Ticonderoga by the Hodenosaunee and
The Rulers of the Lakes A Story of George and Champlain 1890
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Ticonderoga, which is the point really threatened, is abandoned without support to the troops of the line and their general.
Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858
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According to the police press release, the driver who fatally struck Morette fled the scene, and anyone with information is asked to call Ticonderoga police at 585-2205.
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But in 1964 then Commander Stockdale was flying off the "Ticonderoga," the aircraft carrier 15 or 20 miles behind the "Maddox" and "Turner Joy," and he was to provide air cover.
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Plane takes off from aircraft Stratton took off from the carrier aircraft carrier "Ticonderoga".
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Among his more important works are two complete services, a scene for barytone solo, male chorus, and orchestra, called "Ticonderoga," and a powerful Christmas anthem.
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Farther down the bay, the "Ticonderoga" had just driven away the last of the British galleys; so that the "Linnet" now alone upheld the cause of the enemy.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898
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The "Ticonderoga" fought a gallant fight throughout.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898
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