Podcasts about fort carillon

While British General Prideaux was busy laying siege to Fort Niagara and General Amherst was marching on Fort Carillon, the ambitious and aggressive 32-year-old James Wolfe was preparing an assault on the French fortress town of Quebec. This massive campaign would last three months and would involve nearly 9000 British soldiers and 162 ships attacking an incredibly strong fortress on a bluff nearly 300 feet above the St. Lawrence River. Join Jacob and James as they tell the fascinating story of the British campaign to take the capital city of New France.

Beginning in 1758, the British war effort would be run by the brilliant and aggressive Member of Parliament William Pitt. Pitt opened up the government's purse to properly fund the war effort and sent a cadre of new, younger, and more aggressive generals to try and turn the tide in North America. They kicked off the 1758 campaigning season with bold assaults on the key French positions of Louisbourg and Fort Carillon. Would these efforts succeed? Join Jacob and James as they tell you.

The more things change the more they stay the same. This week the British start a new phase in the war that is going to start off by looking a whole lot like the last phase of the war.   Join us on social media!   Twitter: https://twitter.com/ushistpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/USPoliticalpodcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uspoliticalpodcast/ Website: http://www.uspoliticalpodcast.com Bibliography: http://www.uspoliticalpodcast.com/bibliography/

The British mass the largest army ever assembled in North America to attack an ill-equipped French Garrison at Fort Carillon on July 8th, 1758. In a major blunder, the British forces suffer the worst single day lost of men in North America, until the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.

The British mass the largest army ever assembled in North America to attack an ill-equipped French Garrison at Fort Carillon on July 8th, 1758. In a major blunder, the British forces suffer the worst single day lost of men in North America, until the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.

Originally built as Fort Carillon by the French army between 1755 - 1757, Fort Ticonderoga sits at a strategic junction of Lake Champlain, La Chute River, and Lake George.  British forces--including soldiers from Massachusetts--captured it in 1759, and then in May 1775 forces from Massachusetts and Connecticut, and from what is now Vermont took it from the British.  Henry Knox brought sixty tons of artillery from Ticonderoga to help General Washington drive the British from Boston.  Fort Ticonderoga is one of the great historical sites--and museums--in the country, and we talk with its curator, Matthew Keagle about its history and its collections.   

Juriste, homme d'affaire, philanthrope et francophile, Peter S. Paine est l'invité du 8ème épisode de Révolution Bilingue. Cet Américain, amoureux de la langue française depuis près de 70 ans, a fait de son bilinguisme une force à chaque étape de sa carrière. Tour à tour, Peter Paine a défendu la compagnie Peugeot aux États-Unis, sauvé de la faillite le Fort Carillon, sur l'Hudson, et soutenu de nombreux projets environnementaux autour du Lac Champlain.Écoutez l’épisode ici, sur le site de French Morning ou sur iTunes Podcast.Le podcast “Révolution Bilingue” est proposé par French Morning avec le soutien de CALEC (Center for the Advancement of Languages, Education, and Communities).

This week we turn to 1758 in the colonies as Pitt's Chathamite system begins to take effect. The British try to push up the Lake Champlain corridor by attacking Fort Carillon.

Two months in and I'm really liking this new schedule of a quarter per topic. Those 90 days feel like enough time to dig into a subject, but also to keep moving so that I get to explore several throughout the year. I'll stick with this for the foreseeable future, and in this episode I share what some of my future topics will likely be. Plan of Fort Carillon in 1758 The main feature of this episode is another interview with designer Volko Ruhnke. I say "another" because he was on my podcast a year ago to talk about Alesia, while this time he's on to talk about the French & Indian War. Though he's probably best known now as the originator of the COIN system, Volko's first published design was a CDG, Wilderness War. We get to talk about that, as well as an entirely new game system he's working on. I don't know if this is a "scoop" or what because I had not heard of this before, and cannot find anything else about it online. Enjoy! Volko tells about this new system in the context of describing the time he had playtesting games at San Diego's wargaming convention, SDHistCon. I missed going this year...maybe I should make it a priority in 2018? Wargaming at BGG.con One of the reasons I didn't make it was that I went to another gaming convention in November, Boardgamegeek's BGGcon. This was my fourth time, having been to the very first (2005), and then three of the past few years (just missed when I lived in France--2016). Although primarily a eurogame event, I'd say perhaps 10% of the gaming is wargaming. Since BGGcon is such a large event (2500+ people over 4+ days), even 10% is quite a bit of wargaming. I did some of that this time, too. A plan of Fort William Henry, published in 1765 I've got one more designer interview planned for the final F&I War episode, next month in December. At that time I'll also recap the games & movies I've enjoyed. Then we'll put a bow on 2017 and look forward to the new year. -Mark Fort Oswego   Remember to follow along & chime in on my geeklist/discussion) for all of my French & Indian War explorations. If you're a wargamer on social media, follow me on Twitter (@WargamesToGo). Feedback is always welcome.

After continuing defeats, Britain changes leaders.  It also adopts a new strategy for encouraging British colonial support for the war in North America.  Gen. Abercromby's army assaults Fort Carillon at Ticonderoga. For more text, pictures, maps, and sources, please visit my site at AmRevPodcast.Blogspot.com.

After continuing defeats, Britain changes leaders.  It also adopts a new strategy for encouraging British colonial support for the war in North America.  Gen. Abercromby's army assaults Fort Carillon at Ticonderoga. For more text, pictures, maps, and sources, please visit my site at AmRevPodcast.Blogspot.com.

1758 was a special year. After nearly three years of misfortune and less than spectacular results, the British marked the year with a victory and a defeat. The great French fortress at Louisbourg fell to the British, but their assault of Fort Carillon met with disaster. Join us in our continuing discussion of the Seven Years War. If you would like more information, please join the discussion on Facebook or drop a line at americawarpodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!