“Should the Enemy come up the Lake…you will act with such cool determined valour, as will give them Reason to repent their Temerity.”

On October 11, 1776, Commandant Benedict Arnoldand his American Fleet literally found themselves in dire straits. Out gunnedand out manned, it was a setting of Arnold’s choosing, and one in which he hoped to slow and ensnare the inevitable British advance into the Champlain Valley. Join Ed Scollon as he shares the findings of the Valcour Bay Research Project and the consequences that the Battle of Valcour had for the American Gondola New York, its crew and one of their families. Ed Scollonis a retired NYS Trooper and NYS Underwater Recovery Team Member. A Co-Founderand Co-Principal Investigator of the Valcour Bay Research Project, Ed continues to work as an archaeological diver and researcher, focusing his study on the 1776 Battle of Valcour Island.

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