1. Benedict Arnold was defeated at Lake Champlain, 1776.

2. Meanwhile, on the Lake Champlain and Kinkaid, sailors were completing their own preparations for leaving.

3. Located on Lake Champlain in northeastern New York, Fort Ticonderoga served as a key point of access to both Canada and the Hudson River Valley during the French and Indian War.

4. This small yet lively city on the edge of Lake Champlain is, to Chauncey, the ideal mix of recreation and affordability.

5. Not too far behind its neighbor Massachusetts, Vermont's first established colony dates back to 1666,(http:///lake champlain.html) smack dab on the Isle of La Motte in Lake Champlain.

6. In 1755, French settlers in North America began building a military fortification, Fort Carillon, on the western shore of Lake Champlain.

7. So grab your virtual canoe and head toward the clear waters of Lake Champlain, via these cyber waterways.

8. A glacial lake of northeast New York in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains south of Lake Champlain.

9. Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys and Benedict Arnold surprised the British at Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain with an attack on May 10, 1775.

10. Also in 1776, a fleet of small warships under the command of Benedict Arnold fought the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain.

11. Patterns in Nature: Mysterious Earth Lichens grow on a granite gravestone in Lake Champlain, New York.