Valcour Bay

October twenty-six, two thousand one, the USA Patriot Act is signed into law.

Battle of Valcour Bay.

The Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, New York on October eleven, seventeen seventy-six is regarded as one of the first naval battles of the Revolutionary War and one of the first battles fought by the US Navy.

The Benedict Arnold-led American force lost eleven ships and nearly two hundred soldiers, but defended the lake and stalled British plans to reach the upper Hudson Valley.