Valcour Island is a 968-acre (3.92 km2): 6 island in Lake Champlain in Clinton County, New York, United States. The island is mostly in the Town of Peru...
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The Battle of Valcour Island, also known as the Battle of Valcour Bay, was a naval engagement that took place on October 11, 1776, on Lake Champlain....
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The battle was finally joined in the Battle of Valcour Island on 11 October 1776 at Valcour Island, near Plattsburgh, New York, a site of Arnold's choosing...
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Lake Champlain (redirect from Lake Champlain Islands, Vermont)
Island Hen Island Butler Island Carleton's Prize Young Island Providence Island Stave Island Sunset Island Bluff Point Lighthouse, on Valcour Island near the...
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Invasion of Quebec (1775) (section Valcour Island)
the British fleet was on Lake Champlain. In a naval action between Valcour Island and the western shore, beginning on October 11, the British inflicted...
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Valcour may refer to: Aline and Valcour, novel USS Valcour, ship Valcour Aime (1797–1867), American businessman Valcour Bay, strait Valcour Formation...
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patrolling the lake she was lost in the aftermath of the Battle of Valcour Island. The gunboat's wreck was located and documented in the 1990s by the...
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Benedict Arnold (section Rhode Island and Philadelphia)
In 1776, he employed defensive and delay tactics at the Battle of Valcour Island in Lake Champlain that gave American forces time to prepare New York's...
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Lake Champlain. The British captured and burnt her in October 1776 at Valcour Island. Royal Savage was estimated to be 50 ft (15 m) long and 15 ft (4.6 m)...
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The military history of Vermont covers the military history of the American state of Vermont, as part of French colonial America; as part of Massachusetts...
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