American fleet preparation on Lake Champlain
- When
- June–October 1776
- Where
- Lake Champlain shipbuilding and fortification
- Part of
- Battle of Valcour Island
After retreating from Quebec, Americans fortified Ticonderoga and Crown Point and built ships to augment Arnold's small fleet.
Following the June 1776 retreat from Quebec, the Continental Army fortified Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Crown Point and spent the summer building additional ships to augment the small fleet Benedict Arnold had assembled after capturing Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775. During the retreat, the Americans carefully took or destroyed all ships on the lake that might prove useful to the British, while building their fleet at Skenesborough.
Sources
- Battle of Valcour Island Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-22
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.