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Definition of Lake Champlain

1. Noun. A lake in northeastern New York, northwestern Vermont and southern Quebec; site of many battles in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lake Champlain

Literary usage of Lake Champlain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1895)
"Lake Champlain. But ere Brown could strike again General Izard arrived and took command. Izard had reached Plattsburg on May first, and had scarcely had ..."

2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1904)
"to the Hudson-Champlain water body, nor even to the Higher Glacial Lake Champlain water body, but were made after the abandonment of the Fort Edward outlet. ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1842)
"But at morn there is no lake so blue, No lake at eve of snch golden hue, No lake reflects the moon so true, As Lake Champlain. Reflecting the heaven's smile ..."

4. A Naval History of the American Revolution by Gardner Weld Allen (1913)
"CHAPTER VI Lake Champlain, 1776 IN the days when the frontier severing Canada from New England and New York was a wilderness, the only easy avenue of ..."

5. Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1905)
"Prior to them, contemporary reference to Lake Champlain, or to Louisiana, is both rare and casual. For this reason, mention of earlier occurrences in either ..."

6. Great Epochs in American History: Described by Famous Writers from Columbus by Francis Whiting Halsey (1912)
"... CHAMPLAIN'S BATTLE WITH THE IROQUOIS ON Lake Champlain (1609) BY CHAMPLAIN ... Quebec was founded by him in 1608, and Lake Champlain discovered in 1609. ..."

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