Category: History - American

The Champlain tercentenary

VI. French Visitors and Commissioners entertained at Ticonderoga, later Inspect the Champlain Memorial Lighthouse at Crown Point Forts where they formally place the Bust, “La France”, and then journey to Plattsburgh. Report to Paris 69

Chapters

1. PART ONE: MEMORIALS TO SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN

VI. French Visitors and Commissioners entertained at Ticonderoga, later Inspect the Champlain Memorial Lighthouse at Crown Point Forts where they formally place the Bust, “La Fr...

2. PART TWO: DEDICATORY CEREMONIES

V. Call at the Summer School, Review of the Fifth Infantry regiment, U. S. A., at Plattsburgh Barracks. Tour of the city. Reception given by the Hon. Smith M. Weed and luncheon...

3. PART THREE: CONCLUSION

4. Part One

The first Report of this Commission was presented to the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New York, September 19, 1911. Subsequently thereto Commissioner and Senator Ja...

5. scene twenty miles distant, on the following day, at Ticonderoga,

“the Gateway of the Nation,” where was built Fort Carillon, in 1755-6, around which struggled the flower of contending armies of three sovereign nations for its control; another...

6. Part Two

The Commission decided to have the dedicatory ceremonies of the Crown Point memorial on July 5, 1912, and of the Plattsburgh memorial on July 6, 1912, the anniversary week of th...

7. Part Three

This record would be incomplete without reference to the active co-operation of the Government of the United States in authorizing formal invitations to be extended through the...

8. Chapter 181 of the Laws of 1911. In this as in other matters the

In addition to the building of the Champlain memorials, the Celebration with its varied literary, military and naval features was carried to a successful conclusion by the Lake...