Teacher Resources
Crown Point
Inquiry Question
What is the difference between winning a battle and winning a campaign? Can you lose one to win the other?
Primary Sources
What Teachers and Students Use
Crown Point State Historic Site
INSTITUTIONAL · New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
5 analysis prompts
Amherst Papers: Crown Point Correspondence
PRIMARY · UK National Archives
5 analysis prompts
A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity
PRIMARY · Various editions (original 1779)
5 analysis prompts
Sails and Steam in the Mountains: A Maritime and Military History of Lake George and Lake Champlain
SECONDARY · Purple Mountain Press (Russell P. Bellico)
5 analysis prompts
Historic American Buildings Survey: Crown Point Fortifications
INSTITUTIONAL · Library of Congress / National Park Service
5 analysis prompts
Downloads
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Lesson Plan
In the Classroom
Learning Objectives
- 1Distinguish between tactical outcomes (who won the battle) and strategic outcomes (what the battle accomplished)
- 2Trace the causal chain from Arnold's fleet construction to the Saratoga surrender
- 3Analyze how campaign seasons shaped military decision-making on Lake Champlain
- 4Evaluate Arnold's Valcour Island decision as strategically correct or incorrect, using evidence
Explore Further
Crown Point in the Knowledge Graph
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Comparative Study
Connected Towns
The corroborate prompts in the student packet point to these towns. Teachers can assign cross-town comparisons.
Boston
SHARED EVENT
Cannon captured at Crown Point and Ticonderoga were transported by Knox to Boston in winter 1775–1776. Washington used them to occupy Dorchester Heights in March 1776, forcing the British evacuation. Crown Point's artillery directly resolved the Boston siege.
Ticonderoga
GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY
Adjacent Lake Champlain forts.
Stony Point
SHARED THEME
Crown Point and Stony Point were the two critical New York fortifications whose control determined whether the British could split the American states along a north-south corridor. Both represent the strategic logic of controlling geographic chokepoints on water routes.
Assessment
Crown Point in the American Revolution
Answer the following questions based on our study of Revolutionary history. · 5 questions · Answer key in Teacher Guide PDF
What makes Crown Point significant in Revolutionary history?
multiple choice
Primary sources are documents or objects created during the time period being studied.
true false
Name one event that occurred in Crown Point during the Revolutionary period and explain its significance.
short answer
+ 2 more in the full quiz PDF
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