Fort Ticonderoga Ticonderoga, New York http://www2.cr.nps.gov/pad/defenders/forticonderoga2.htm Built high on a bluff by the French in 1755, Fort Ticonderoga was captured by the British four years later. Then, a few weeks after the American Revolution began in 1775, Ethan Allen and Vermont's Green Mountain Boys seized it for the Continental Army. With the help of eighty-one yoke of oxen, the Green Mountain Boys moved the cannons and ammunition to Cambridge, Massachusetts. George Washington used the weapons captured at Fort Ticonderoga to keep the British from taking Boston. Later that year, when Americans mounted an unsuccessful attack on Quebec, the British recaptured the fort and kept it until September 3, 1783. On that date, Fort Ticonderoga was returned to the Americans through the signing of the Treaty of Paris, in Versailles. http://www2.cr.nps.gov/pad/defenders/forticonderoga2.htm