This wider view has Hand's Cove on the right, and the garrison house in which Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen met late on May 9, 1775 on the left, obvious due to it's shiny roof. The two independent-minded men worked out the joint-command arrangement and planned the attack, then moved a small contingent across the lake under cover of darkness, entering the fort at about 4 AM next morning.

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