[Pharmboy]

I used to live upstate and visited many of these sites. It was said that more foreign armies marched on what is now route 9 between Lake George and Glens Falls than any other 9 miles in north America (if I remember, the French, Dutch, Swedes, English and German).

[Pharmboy]

Fort Tconderoga, between Lake Champlain and Lake George

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[deadrock]

BM

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I would have to actually agree with Mr. Solana. We in America have been relatively free from battles in our own states since the Civil War. We have not known the total out and out destruction of cities that mainland Europe and Britian knew during WWII. I think that is most likely what Mr. Solana was referring to. Unfortunately, just about all of Europes foreign policy looks at everything through the prism of WWI and WWII where military buildup was part of the casus belli.

[cuban leaf]

—Even if one ignores Pearl Harbor, —

Not to pick nits, but Pearl Harbor was not part of the US at the time.

[STD]

Your Uncle Bob, so relax

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I used to live upstate, too, when there used to be a huge emphasis on NYS history in 7th and 8th grades. The biggest challenge in social studies was keeping the names of all the forts straight (and the name changes, too): Frederick (Crown Point), Carillon, Ticonderoga, Edward, Stanwix, Oswego, Nagara, Duquesne (Pitt), Frontenac, William Henry, Herkimer, German Flats, Hunder, Schenectady, Brewerton, Ontario, Granville, Williams, Hardy, Cumberland.

A couple thousand guys in the wilderness could throw up a fort in no time at all.

[blueunicorn6]

Indians? Here in North America? Where’d they come from....Bombay? Chinese.....the people we call Indians and native americans are Chinese.