Lake Champlain

<p><span class="deck"> Unless the makeshift Yankee admiral with his tiny homemade fleet could hold Lake Champlain, the formidable invasion from Canada might overwhelm the rebel army</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> It started with jaunty confidence and skirling bagpipes. Five days later it had turned into one of the bloodiest and most futile battles ever fought on American soil.</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck">EARLY NAVAL HISTORY AND TODAY’S URBAN ENERGY ON CHAMPLAIN’S SHORES</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The journeys 400 years ago of a French and Dutch explorer would forever alter the history of North America.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A determined collector brings a steamboat to her museum of Americana—by rail.</span> </p>