Two Revolutionary War letters were recently brought together at a museum in upstate New York, exactly 250 years after they were written. Fort Ticonderoga in Essex County, near Lake Champlain, ...

It’s strange that such a small marker in front of the Berkshire Museum in downtown Pittsfield commemorates such a monumental event. At this spot on May 1, 1775, Col. James Easton hosted at his tavern ...

A key early victory in the American Revolution occurred in our region on this day in history.

On May 10, 1775, a small band of American militiamen stunned the most powerful military in the world when they fearlessly wrestled Fort Ticonderoga from British control—delivering the first American ...

TICONDEROGA — On May 10, 1775, Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys rowed across Lake Champlain and seized the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga — delivering the colonists the ...

PLATTSBURGH —This spring marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the patriots’ capture of Fort Ticonderoga led by Benedict Arnold. During the following year, Arnold ...

Author Jack Kelly tells the full story of infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold in his new book. Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images “Most Americans know one thing about Benedict ...

Distinguished American combat officer Benedict Arnold met a British commander in secret with a plot to trade the colonial stronghold at West Point for cash on this day in history, Sept. 21, 1780. The ...

This 2017 photo provided by Fort Ticonderoga shows a lock of Benedict Arnold’s hair along with the paper wrappings that have enclosed it, at Fort Ticonderoga, in Ticonderoga, N.Y. The hair will be ...

Benedict Arnold committed treason— for more than two centuries, that’s all that most Americans have known about him. Yet Arnold was much more than a turncoat. His achievements during the early years ...