A place called Ticonderoga

[macwilkin]

FYI, the cairn commemorates the 42nd's service in the 1758 battle (during the French & Indian War), not the Revolutionary War. I don't think the Black Watch served at or near Ticonderoga during the latter conflict....

Aye; The RHR didn't arrive "in country" until May, 1776.

T.

[alikws]

Good pictures of the monument. Ian had some information about it, the mortered stones used for the flag above the doorway were sent by the clans from Scotland, and a person from Scotland was to build the cairn as dry stonework, but hurt his back early, so a Vermonter completed the monument. The portion of the lines behind the monument about 100 yards into the woods is where the Black Watch broke through the lines, and suffered 65% casualties... Most of them are still there...

[Malcolm MacWilliam]

Aye, I'll be there in June, but as 77th Grenadiers, Montgomery's Highlanders. Although we were not there in '58, our Rev. War impresssion is the 42nd. We and many other kilted soldiers will recreate the highland charge.....with honour!! At sometime that weekend we will do honours at the cairn.....we have done it in the past and it is a solemn and tearful moment. Malcolm

[kiltimabar]

Aye; The RHR didn't arrive "in country" until May, 1776.

T.

But I believe the Black Watch was with Burgoyne when he re-took Ticonderoga from the Americans in the Saratoga campaign in 1777.

[macwilkin]

But I believe the Black Watch was with Burgoyne when he re-took Ticonderoga from the Americans in the Saratoga campaign in 1777.

In the Fall of 1777 the Black Watch was in Pennsylvania; they fought at Brandywine on 11 September, and at Germantown on 5 October. They began the year in New Jersey, according to the article "The Black Watch in America", which is in a programme from their 1990 North American tour.

T.