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Fort Ticonderoga:
Scottish Festival & Black Watch Memorial
Scottish Festival 2010
RHR, Black Watch, Canada and Re-enactors at the 2010 Festival
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Made possible, in part, with an Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks CAP Grant.
Fort Ticonderoga (known by its French builders as Carillon) looms large in Scottish history. It was here on July 8, 1758, at the Battle of Carillon, that the Highland Regiment, the famed Black Watch, gained eternal glory. With bayonets fixed, the regiment pushed through an entanglement of felled trees and sharpened branches, to drive French forces—if possible—from their log breastwork on the Heights of Carillon.
Pressing forward through a hail of French musket fire, despite heavy losses, the regiment came closer than any other to achieving its goal. Though the battle ended in defeat for the Black Watch and other British forces, the regiment gained great honor for its determined attack, and a reputation for tenacity in battle that lives to this day.
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In 1997 a cairn was erected on the Carillon Battlefield in honor of the Highland Regiment. Some of the stones,
sent by the clans to which men of the regiment belonged, came from ancestral lands in Scotland. |
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