PLATTSBURGH —This spring marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the patriots’ capture of Fort Ticonderoga led by Benedict Arnold. During the following year, Arnold ...

Distinguished American combat officer Benedict Arnold met a British commander in secret with a plot to trade the colonial stronghold at West Point for cash on this day in history, Sept. 21, 1780. The ...

TICONDEROGA — On May 10, 1775, Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys rowed across Lake Champlain and seized the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga — delivering the colonists the ...

Benedict Arnold began the American Revolution as one of the nation’s boldest and most admired heroes. He was known for his ...

TICONDEROGA, N.Y. (AP) — A rarely displayed lock of American traitor Benedict Arnold's hair will be exhibited at the New York fort he helped capture in the Revolutionary War's opening weeks. Officials ...

The capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold surprised and ...

This 2017 photo provided by Fort Ticonderoga shows a lock of Benedict Arnold’s hair along with the paper wrappings that have enclosed it, at Fort Ticonderoga, in Ticonderoga, N.Y. The hair will be ...

If the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word Ticonderoga is the classic yellow number 2 pencil, then it may be time for a history lesson. And if you’re too busy to take your pencils ...

America celebrates its 250th anniversary as a nation on July 4, 2026, the date the Declaration of Independence was signed. Leading up to that monumental moment, a number of key events occurred that ...

A rarely displayed lock of American traitor Benedict Arnold‘s hair will be exhibited at the New York fort he helped capture with the help of Vermont’s Green Mountain Boys in the Revolutionary War’s ...