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Stay tuned for more from Fort Ticonderoga soon.
In the meantime, you can find out more about the teacher institute at the fort on my Fort Ticonderoga page.
I marched with the drummers and fifers to the battlefield on the Heights of Carillon. Imagining myself actually marching into battle pierced me for just a moment - knowing that I would soon be seeing a fight, that I would soon be defending myself against a deadly opponent, that I would would be part of a barrier defending the border of a new nation.
Soon the air would be thick with sulfurous smoke and the constant popping of muskets. Soon we would hear the whooping of our Indian allies and the grunts of the enemy as they attempted to traverse the obstacles we put into their path. Large logs and trenches would form our main defensive lines outside the fort, planned at angles to follow the landscape and allow shooters to fire at a variety of angles. The, thanks to General Montcalm, the front of the lines would be reinforced with an abatis - trees felled and intertwined and branches sharpened to face the enemy. As we waited for the British to arrive in this historic battle, we had to think. There were 3,700 of us defending the French fort against 16,000 advancing, trained British troops. The anticipation of the reenactment on a sultry hot day was enough. We could not imagine the reality of the wait - the anticipation of something so large that once rolling down hill, it would be unstoppable. At this point the battlefield is ready. Now, we just needed an opponent to ascend the Heights. Stay tuned for more from Fort Ticonderoga soon. In the meantime, you can find out more about the teacher institute at the fort on my Fort Ticonderoga page.
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