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Historical Sites related to the Life and Career of Benedict Arnold

  2. Artifacts of the Valcour Fleet

Navy Museum, Washington, DC

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  • The painting; General Arnold at Valcour Island (see next photo for the museum label)
  • The painting "General Arnold destroys his fleet" (see next photo for museum label)
  • Chart of the Battle of Valcour Island". The caption reads: <br /> <br /> "An American flotilla under Brigadier General Benedict Arnold engaged British forces commanded by Captain Thomas Pringle, Royal Navy, on 11 October, 1776 near Valcour Island on Lake Champlain. Arnold's fifteen ships had been constructed the previous summer in hopes of halting the British advance from Canada. The superior British force, including twenty well-armed gunboats, destroyed the entire American fleet in the three day battle and forced Arnold to retreat overland to Crown Point and then to Fort Ticonderoga. However, Arnold's continual resistance caused the British to withdraw to Canada for the winter and to abandon their plan to separate new England from the other states."
  • An anchor on display with the notation that it was from the American Lake Champlain Flotilla, recovered by divers in the 1960s near Schuyler Island.
  • Another view of the anchor
  • Label for the anchor
  • Stempost from one of the gunboats in Arnold's fleet
  • Label for the stempost
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