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    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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    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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    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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    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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