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Aug 2024
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OLD TICONDEROGA by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

JON HAGADORN
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New Englander writer Nathaniel Hawthorne visits the remains of Fort Ticonderoga, which played an important part in the French-Indian and Revolutionary wars as first the French battled the English for possession of the valuable waterways and later the British battled the American colonists for possesion of the northern colonies.

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