COLONIAL FORTS OF THE CHAMPLAIN AND HUDSON VALLEYS by Michael Laramie

From Montreal to New York City, the rivers and lakes of the Hudson and Champlain Valleys carved a path through the primeval forests of the Northeast, which we now know today as the Adirondacks. The rival French and Indian colonies on either end built strategic strongholds there throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The French and Indian War saw the construction of frontier forts such as the English Fort William Henry at the Headwaters of Lake George. Fortifications would often change hands – and names – such as when French-built Fort Carillon became famed Fort Ticonderoga after a successful English siege. Author Michael Laramie charts the attempts to secure the most important chain of waterways in early North America.