Fortification

So The plan was proposed, we will have send an army from, uh, Montreal, b- because the British still, uh, controlled Canada, which was Quebec.

We'll send an army from Montreal due south down Lake Champlain, conquer Fort Ticonderoga.

Once again, the name comes up, the gateway to the Americas, and march down or sail down the Hudson River.

At the same time, the British army occupying New York, uh, City will march or sail north up s- up the Hudson River, and a third army will be sent west along Lake Ontario from Montreal to, uh, what's now Buffalo, essentially.

It was very sound.

It's what, uh, the Americans thinkers, uh, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and others all assumed would be the case.

Uh, so the Americans scramble to fortify, uh, Fort Ticonderoga, which as we know, my ancestor, one of them, I have many in different parts of the war here, um, had, uh, seized on May 10, 1775.

So on, um, in the spring of, uh, 1777, the British organized, uh, this expedition.

Um, that was areas that weren't really populated by a lot of people, so there were more fortifications.

So he fortified it, and it was known as Kincannon's Fort.

Um, and actually, during the Battle of Kings Mountain in the Revolutionary War, those soldiers that were on their way to Kings Mountain, South Carolina, actually stayed a period of time at the fort.

So there was almost 400 soldiers that camped on that almost 900 acres right there in and around, um, where the house sits today.

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And, you know, there is something pretty incredible that explains why this scene exists in Pirates of the Caribbean for Bombarding the Fort.

But before we get to that, Kirk, I have to show you something that I found that actually our good friend Joshua, who's on a district night shift with us, he found it and sent it to me.

And it is a concept for the pirate arcade that we talked about previously.

Always check your dinghy, kids.

Interestingly enough, that dinghy is like something that actually carries through pretty much all the way to the final, though with various iterations.

So then we have this concept, which is called Bombarding the Fort.

This one is from 1965.

Traditionally, it has attached the battle to several dramatic hills.

There are two specific ones in Shropshire that still carry the name Caercadog, or Caradog's Fort, and they have both been proposed.

british camp on the herefordshire beacon in malvern hills is another favorite and we'll see why later it became so popular some scholars have preferred kevin karnath a hill fort above the upper severn near carwis in mid Wales, which has the advantage of actually sitting in a plausible Ordovician country beside a real river.

But let's be honest, none of these are proven.

Gloriously unreliable history who came to be tangled up with Caractacus.

You can see the confusion written on the landscape.

The two hills of Shropshire called Caradog or Caradog's Fort are popularly tied to our subject, but the name simply means it was somebody called Caradog's stronghold.

There are a great many Caradogs in the world and the links are folklore and not evidence.

They might have gone northward until the twilight scarcely disappeared in the summer nights, and have found the same verdure and beauty continuing to the end.

there were broad and undulating plains in the southern regions of the island and in the northern green mountains and romantic glens but all plains valleys and mountains were fertile and beautiful and teeming with abundant sustenance for flocks for herds and for man brutus accordingly established himself upon the island with all his followers and founded a kingdom there over which he reigned as the founder of a dynasty endless tales are told of the lives and exploits and quarrels of his successors down to the time of caesar conflicting claimants arose continually to dispute with each other for the possession of power wars were made by one tribe upon another cities as they were called though probably in fact were only rude collections of hovels were built Fortresses were founded, and rivers were named from the princes or princesses drowned in them, in accidental journeys or by the violence of rival claimants to their thrones.

The pretended records contain a vast number of legends, of very little interest or value, as the reader will readily admit when we tell him that the famous story of King Lear is the most entertaining one in the whole collection.

It is this.

It's the beginning of day three and today is filled with even more fun adventures.

Starting with, if you haven't already hiked up to the Fortress of San Giovanni, this morning is your final chance.

It's best enjoyed early in the morning before the crowds and the midday heat arrives.

Also, if you can get up and down before 8am, you'll be able to pass the checkpoints before they open and avoid paying the 15 euro entry fee.

At the southern edge of Philadelphia, beyond the highways, industry, and runways of Philadelphia International Airport, there's a fortress sitting along the Delaware River, Fort Mifflin.

And its story begins before the United States even existed.

Originally known as the Fort Island Battery, it was commissioned in 1771 on Mud Island, positioned in the Delaware River below Philadelphia.

In 1775, American forces controlled the fortification, and just two years later, it would become the site of one of the most violent bombardments of the American Revolution.

Which is a pretty strong resume for a paranormal location.

The British desperately needed food, ammunition, clothing, gunpowder, basically everything required to keep an army functioning.

And a lot of it was sitting downstream aboard ships in the Delaware River.

The problem was that between those ships and Philadelphia stood American defenses, including Fort Mercer in New Jersey and Fort Mifflin on Mud Island.