| The French built Fort Carillon on Lake Champlain in 1755, during the French and Indian War, and it became a strategic portage point on the main water route to Canada. The French used the fort as a staging ground for the attack on Fort William Henry and then held it with a force of only 4000 men against nearly 16,000 British soldiers who tried to capture it in 1758. It was later seized by British troops under General Jeffrey Amherst, who renamed it Fort Ticonderoga. The building has since been restored and turned into a museum featuring collections of weapons, uniforms, and historic paintings. |
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