Cannoneer's Point of View

by Robert Harris

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Cannoneer's Point of View

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Robert Harris

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Photograph

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This is the view from the cannoneer's position on the battlement of Fort Ticonderoga. The nearly 100 canons were arranged around the battlement to give about 270 degrees of coverage of Lake Champlain.
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.

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