[{SlideShowNav}] !!!Fort Ticonderoga [{Image src='260us.jpg' width='650' height='487' alt='Fort Ticonderoga' class='image_left' popup='false'}] [{SET customtitle='Fort Ticonderoga'}] View from the battlements of Fort Ticonderoga [{GoogleMap location='Fort Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga, New York, USA' zoom='12'}] on Lake Champlain in New York state showing cannon, mortars, the lake, and Mount Defiance. The fort controlled a river portage between Lake Champlain and Lake George and then to the Hudson River. This was the principal trade route between the Hudson River Valley and the French-controlled Saint Lawrence River Valley.