Fort Carillon

Fort Carillon
Fort Carillon (modern day Fort Ticonderoga)
Coordinates	43°50′29″N 73°23′17″W / 43.84139°N 73.38806°W / 43.84139; -73.38806
Type	Fort
Site information
Controlled by	New France
Site history
Built	1755
In use	1755–1759
Battles/wars	Seven Years' War
Garrison information
Past commanders	Louis-Joseph de Montcalm Chevalier de Lévis Louis Antoine de Bougainville François-Charles de Bourlamaque
Garrison	La Reine Guyenne Berry Béarn La Sarre Royal Roussillon Languedoc Troupes de la Marine

Fort Carillon, presently known as Fort Ticonderoga, was constructed by Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, Governor of New France, to protect Lake Champlain from a British invasion. Situated on the lake some 15 miles (24 km) south of Fort Saint Frédéric, it was built to prevent an attack on Canada and slow the advance of the enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.^[1]

Assigned to remedy Fort Saint Frédéric's inability to resist a constant British threat to the south, French King's Engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière began construction of Fort Carillon where Lake George, at that time called Lac Saint Sacrement, joins Lake Champlain by the La Chute river. Construction began in October 1755.^[2]