Fort Ticonderoga

The most significant fortification on the Lake Champlain–Lake George corridor, built by the French as Fort Carillon in 1755 and renamed after British capture in 1759. On May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured it from a surprised British garrison — Allen famously demanding surrender 'in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress.' Henry Knox hauled its cannon to Boston that winter. Burgoyne retook it in July 1777. Restored in the 20th century and operated as a private museum, it is the most fully preserved Revolutionary War fortification in the United States.