Even if Inverawe knew the fort they were to storm was called Ticonderoga, he cannot have known it when the ghost appeared to him in Scotland.

At that time there was not even a fort at Ticonderoga, as the French only erected it in 1756.

Inverawe had told his story to friends in Scotland before the war broke out in America, so even if in 1758 he did know the real name of the fort that the expedition was directed against, I don't see that it lessens the interest of the story .-- E.

A.C.
The French really called the place Fort Carillon, which disguised the native name Ticonderoga.

See Memoirs of the Chevalier Johnstone .-- A.
L.
{162} Abercromby's force consisted of the 27th, 42nd, 44th, 46th, 55th, and battalions of the 60th Royal Americans, with about 9000 Provincials and a train of artillery.