Battle+Of+Lake+Champlain

=Battle of Lake Champlain=



The Battle of Lake Champlain occured on October 11th, 1776 in Valcour Bay on Lake Champlain, a waterway between New York and Valcour Island. It was fought between the United States Navy and the British Navy. The British were joined by Indians who landed on the island and fired at American ships from the land. The battles lasted 9 hours, from 10 AM to 7 PM.

The American fleet was led by Benedict Arnold , and the British were led by Sir Guy Carleton , the British governor of Canada. . . The battle was an attack by the British  intended to stop rebel forces on Valcour Island, reopen the Valcour Bay to the  King 's ships, and seize the  American forts at Ticonderoga and Mt. Independence. Sir Guy Carleton led 30 British ships, with about 700 men on board, to meet 15 waiting American  ships worked by 800 men. As the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">approached, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Benedict Arnold <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">lured the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ships closer to the <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> fleet by sending out schooners which the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> followed into the bay. Early on in the battle, the largest <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ship, the //<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Royal Savage //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, ran aground. The crew abandoned the ship, and <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ships fired at it. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fighting began to slow at around 5 PM. By this time, the <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">s had lost 60 men, and the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">had lost about 40<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The //<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Royal Savage //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">had been burned by the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, and one ship, the //<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Philadelphia ,//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> had sunk. At 7 PM, the <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American commanders <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> of the remaining ships all met on the //<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Congress //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to discuss their tactics. They knew that the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> would wait until the nest morning to finish off the rest of the ships. A new plan was formed: to sneak around the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ships during the night. While the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> were tending to their wounded, the <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ships, with all their lights off, all managed to pass the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> fleet under the cover of nightfall. The ships then made their way to Schuyler's Island, and then planned to go to Crown Point, but the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> had realized that the <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ships had escaped them and were following. Once they realized they could not outrun the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">General Arnold <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ordered the remaining ships to be run aground in Ferris' Bay and burned so that the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> British <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> could not take and use them. . . The significance of the battle to the outcome of the war is the delay it provided in General Carleton's original plan of joining General Howe in the South. The American escape from Valcour Bay caused the British to have to follow the Americans, and it took so long that he had to change his plan. While he was supposed to meet General Howe and then follow General Burgoyne's ﻿plan to invade New York from three different directions, he decided not to, so when General Burgoyne attacked New York, he didn't have as much support as he planned, which caused him to lose the Battle of Saratoga. This cause the French to form an alliance with the U.S. Therefore, the Battle of Lake Champlain caused the French to recognize the U.S. as independent and form an alliance to help them win the war.


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