The fortress of Ticonderoga (a corruption of the Iroquois “Cheonderoga,” meaning “rushing waters”) was erected by the French, in 1755, on the western shore of Lake Champlain, near the outlet of Lake George. It was originally called Fort Carillon (chime of bells) from the neighboring waterfall (see stanza 6). It was here that the French under Montcalm (stanza 13) repulsed the English under Abercrombie, on the 8th of July, 1758. Allen’s bold capture was effected on the morning of May 10, 1775. At the time of the taking of Ticonderoga by Allen, the garrison consisted of but forty-eight men under the command of Captain Delaplace. The Continental Congress, which Allen invoked at the time of the surrender, had not yet organized. It held its first session six hours later on that very day. =Stanza 11.= =King David.= See 2 Samuel v., 23, 24. The Vermont “Green Mountain Boys,” mentioned so prominently in a number of engagements in the Revolution, were first organized in 1772 to resist the civil power of New York. In connection with Mrs. Stansbury’s poem it may be interesting to read Robert Louis Stevenson’s ballad, “Ticonderoga.” 4. MONTGOMERY AT QUEBEC. By Clinton Scollard. Clinton Scollard, born in Clinton, New York, September 18, 1860. Richard Montgomery was a native of the North of Ireland. He entered the British army at the age of twenty, and served with distinction under Wolfe, and later in the campaign against the Spanish West Indies. Marrying a daughter of Robert R. Livingston, and settling upon the Hudson, at Rhinebeck, he espoused the cause of the colonists at the opening of the war. In the expedition against Canada he was second in command under Schuyler, with the rank of brigadier-general. The attack upon Quebec was made early in the morning of the 31st of December, 1775. Montgomery’s death was regarded as a great public calamity. Congress passed resolutions of regret and condolence, and Chatham and Burke eulogized the dead leader on the floor of the British Parliament. At the time of his death he was thirty-eight years of age. =Stanza 6.= =Wolfe= (James), the “hero of Louisburg” and the conqueror of Quebec, fell upon the Plains of Abraham in his thirty-second year. He is to this day regarded as one of the half dozen most noted generals that England has produced. Quebec was taken on the 13th of September, 1759. 5. THE MARYLAND BATTALION. By John Williamson Palmer. John Williamson Palmer, a Baltimore physician, the author of the famous lyric, “Stonewall Jackson’s Way,” and Bret Harte’s forerunner in “breaking the virgin soil of California in the field of American letters,” was born in the city of Baltimore, April 4, 1825. This ballad celebrates the heroism of the “Maryland Battalion” at the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776, where they checked the advance of Cornwallis, and saved a portion of Stirling’s command from capture. Two hundred and fifty-nine were left dead on the field.