The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-09-23

brought back, filled again, and again
rowed across. When dawn broke in
the east, eighty-three American SOL
diers had been ferried over, and it was
too late to wait for others.
If the attack was to be success it
must be made without more delay,
the men moved forward and up the
slope. The rumble of the falls helped
them, drowning out all other sounds
They reached the sally port. There a
sentry pointed his musket at the lead
er of the Americans and pulled the
trigger. The piece did not go off, and
the sentry fled. In few moments
the little army of invaders had form
ed hollow square within the fort
facing the barracks about them, their
muskets ready to fire. The Indian
war-cry was given, and Ethan Allen,
VINO led them, made his way to the
quarters of the commandant, and de-
manded the surrender of the fort.
In whose NAME" asked the COM
mandant.
in the name of the Great Jehovah
and the Continental Congress-" replied
Allen. And the surrender was made
So easily and quietly did Ethan Allen
anu iDShttiNl SlHOlu capture llNou-
deroga from the British on that early
morning in May, 1775, without the loss
of man or the firing of a gun, and
the army of the colonies was enriched
by many precious cannon, muskets
and a large amount of ammunition for
the struggle for freedom that had but
started.
Sounding waters" is the interpre-
tyiI tn hn Ind in,,
conderoga. Here, where the waters of
Lake George descend unanimously in
to Lake Champlain, falling thirty feet
in one sheer drop, where the voyagers
from Canada to New England had to
leave their boats and portage their
loads, a fort had been built by the
French twenty years before. Three
years after it was put up Ticonderoga
was attacked by six thousand British
regulars and ten thousand provincials
The four thousand men of the French
garrison repulsed the attacking army,
and among the killed was Lord Howe.
His memory is kept green by a tablet
in Westminster Abbey erected by the
people of Massachusetts Three weeks
after this repulse, when Montcalm had
| gone to Quebec to oppose General
Wolfe and only four hundred men
were left in the fort, Lord Amherst,
with eleven thousand English, be-
sieged it. Realizing the hopelessness
of their task, the garrison blew up
the Notifications and abandoned the
place. 1t had been in English hands
since that time up to its capture by
the Green Mountain Boys" under
Ethan Allen. Two years later, when
General Burgoyne descended from
Canada, the fort fell into his hands
the Americans retreating with scarce
ly any resistance. But when Burgoyne
surrendered, after the battle of Sara.
toga, Ticonderoga again fell into
!, American hands.
: In 1900, on the three hundredth an.
niversary of the discovery of Lake
Champlain, the owner of the ground
on which the ruins of the fort stood
began its restoration.
, The waters still roar at the fall!
as they did on the night Ethan Alle1
and his Green Mountain Boys mad,
the bloodless attack upon the fort
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