page_title: Fort Ticonderoga
section_title: Memorials
hierarchical_section_title: Fort Ticonderoga / Memorials
caption_attribution_description: English: Fort_Ticonderoga-1955_Issue-3c.jpg
context_page_description: Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain, in northern New York, in the United States. It was constructed by Canadian-born French military engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière between October 1755 and 1757, during the action in the "North American theater" of the Seven Years' War, often referred to in the US as the French and Indian War. The fort was of strategic importance during the 18th-century colonial conflicts between Great Britain and France, and again played an important role during the Revolutionary War.
  The site controlled a river portage alongside the mouth of the rapids-infested La Chute River, in the 3.5 miles between Lake Champlain and Lake George. It was thus strategically placed for the competition over trade routes between the British-controlled Hudson River Valley and the French-controlled Saint Lawrence River Valley.
  The terrain amplified the importance of the site. Both lakes were long and narrow and oriented north–south, as were the many ridge lines of the Appalachian Mountains, which extended as far south as Georgia.
context_section_description: The U.S. Navy has given the name 'Ticonderoga' to five different vessels, as well as to entire classes of cruisers and aircraft carriers.
  The fort was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960.  Included in the landmarked area are the fort, as well as Mount Independence and Mount Defiance.  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.  The Ticonderoga pencil, manufactured by the Dixon Ticonderoga Corporation, is named for the fort.
caption: Stamp issued in 1955 marking Fort Ticonderoga's 200th anniversary
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