Tag: An Echo in the Bone

Part of the portrait of Arthur St. Clair (1737-1818), general of the Continental Army by Charles Wilson Peale (c. 1783)

12 June 1777 – Arthur St. Clair arrives in Ticonderoga

The former commander, General Anthony Wayne left Fort Ticonderoga in April. General St. Clair (a Scotland-born veteran of the British army from the French and Indian War, who joined the Continental Army in January 1776) arrived  with 2500 men in three brigades under Generals Alexis Roche de Fermoy, John Paterson, and Enoch Poor. However,  more