Here a numerous and powerful army, bent upon taking Ticonderoga and Crown Point, was being trained already, and Robert, after visiting it, looked once more and with emotion upon the shores of Andiatarocte.
Fate was continually calling him back to this lake and Champlain, around which so much of American story is wrapped.

The mighty drama known as the Seven Years' War, that involved nearly all the civilized world, found many of its springs and also much of its culmination here.

The efforts made by the young British colonies, and by the mother country, England, were colossal, and the battles were great for the time.

To the colonies, and to those in Canada as well, the campaigns were a matter of life or death.

For the English colonies the war, despite valor and heroic endurance, had been going badly in the main, but now almost all felt that a change was coming, and it seemed to be due chiefly to one man, Pitt.