Friday, September 19, 2025 – 8am to 5pm

Leaving from Fort Ticonderoga, NY

Our Tour Leaders: Chris Sabick and Bruce Venter

Registration Fee: $175

Fort Ticonderoga and America’s History will partner again this year to offer a one-day Revolutionary War tour in connection with the Fort’s xxx Annual American Revolution Seminar. Led by Chris Sabick and Bruce Venter, the tour departs from Fort Ticonderoga’s parking lot at 8 a.m. and includes an interpretation of the battle of Valcour Island from a nearby site, a visit to the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and a boat ride thru the Narrows of Lake Champlain.

This tour takes place on the Friday of Fort Ticonderoga’s American Revolution Seminar. Please see www.fortticonderoga.org for the seminar program and details. You may take the Valcour Island tour without attending the seminar.

This tour will demonstrate Benedict Arnold’s skill as a naval commander and hero of the Patriot cause as we visit land and “on the water” sites. We will see Valcour Island from the New York shore, visit the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum which has special exhibits related to Valcour Island, board the reconstructed gunboat, Philadelphia II and take a boat ride thru the Lake Champlain Narrows where Arnold fought a delaying battle with the British. Chris will also update us on the recent archaeological excavations that have been conducted at Arnold’s Bay, the site where Arnold burned the five remaining vessels from the Valcour fleet on October 13, 1776 as well as the continuing plan for archaeological work on the gunboat Spitfire, which is still located in the deep dark waters of Lake Champlain where it was sunk during the retreat from the battle. [Read more…]