Confident of victory and on the classic invasion route of Lake Champlain—Hudson River, British Gen. John Burgoyne set out to crush the Rebellion.   More »

In the 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga, the British were determined to capture Fort Carillon and break the French hold on North America.   More »

Commodore Thomas Macdonough braved the pirates of the First Barbary War and faced the British on Lake Champlain.   More »

America’s Dunkirk may have been a miracle during the Battle of Long Island in August 27, 1776.   More »

Louis Antoine de Bougainville made a name for himself fighting in the forested wilds of North America and circumnavigating the globe.   More »

Major General Braddock’s bloody battle at Fort Duquesne had more than its share of ironies and consequences.   More »

Pride and discipline went up against Andrew Jackson and the American frontiersmen in the Battle of New Orleans.   More »

A British ambush at Fort Stanwix in western New York had far-reaching consequences in the Battle of Oriskany in 1777.   More »

By David A. Norris
 Captain Daniel Lienard de Beaujeu rushed to save the remote French outpost of Fort Duquesne in early July 1755. Weeks away from receiving substantial reinforcements, the fort was the target of British Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock. With Braddock was the largest army in the North American frontier,   More »

Was it Fort Carillon’s superior construction that saved the day for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, or the incompetence of James Abercromby?   More »