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  • (Revolutionary War) Battlefield objects pulled from lake

    06/30/2006 7:03:46 PM PDT · by Extremely Extreme Extremist · 21 replies · 900+ views
    YAHOO NEWS ^ | 30 JUNE 2006 | AP
    Diver Dennis O'Neil of Plattsburgh, N.Y., poses with a piece of a cannon muzzle which he discovered during a dive Friday, June 30, 2006, in Peru, N.Y. Divers have spent the last seven years combing the bottom of Lake Champlain in search of 'battlefield scatter' from the crucial 1776 Battle of Valcour near Peru. O'Neil has made about 100 dives during the project. PERU, N.Y. - Gen. Benedict Arnold led a "wretched, motley" crew of sailors on Lake Champlain against a far superior British fleet near here on Oct. 11, 1776. The rebels lost. But their dogged fight delayed...