Ticonderoga

(tī-kon-de-ro'gah,) in New York, a vill. of E ex co., 95 m. N.E. of Albany. Here are the ruins of a fort celebrated in American history. Erected by the French in 1735, it was taken by the English in 1759, and by the Americans in 1775, which latter held it till 1777, when it was reoccupied by the British. [s. 896]