Mount Defiance (New York)

Mount Defiance
Mount Defiance from Fort Ticonderoga. The LaChute River, leading to Lake George, is at right; the southernmost reaches of Lake Champlain at left
Highest point
Elevation840 ft (260 m)[1]
Coordinates43°49′53″N 73°24′24″W / 43.8314490°N 73.4067856°W / 43.8314490; -73.4067856[1]
Geography
Mount Defiance is located in New York Adirondack Park
Mount Defiance
Mount Defiance
Location of Mount Defiance within New York
Mount Defiance is located in the United States
Mount Defiance
Mount Defiance
Mount Defiance (the United States)
LocationEssex County, New York
Topo mapUSGS Ticonderoga

Mount Defiance is an 840 ft (260 m) high hill on the New York side of Lake Champlain, in the northeastern United States. It is notable in that the hill militarily dominates both Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence, but it was deemed inaccessible so never fortified. Mount Defiance was previously known as Sugar Loaf.[2]

In the 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga, the British army succeeded in positioning artillery on Mount Defiance, causing the Continental Army to withdraw from both forts without a fight.

Mount Defiance is located in the town of Ticonderoga in southeastern Essex County.

View from Mount Defiance showing Fort Ticonderoga, center, on Lake Champlain

References

  1. ^ a b "Mount Defiance". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
  2. ^ "Mount Defiance". America's Historic Lakes. Retrieved September 13, 2010.


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