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Lake and Champlain
Return through New England, stopping for a visit to Lake Champlain where you can take a boat ride and go to Ethan Allen Park.
From Burlington, outgoing mail could be ferried across Lake Champlain to the railroad at Port Kent, N. Y..
At Fort Ethan Allen the ever-present wind off Lake Champlain could readily flip a puny man-made thing like an airplane if the pilot miscalculated.
* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.
The Spirit of Ethan Allen III is a tour boat operating on Lake Champlain.
In 1632 and 1656 is was referred to as Lac de St. Louis or Lake St. Louis by Samuel de Champlain and cartographer Nicolas Sanson respectively ( likely for Louis XIV of France ) In 1660 Jesuit historian Francis Creuxius coined the name Lacus Ontarius.
There are recreational opportunities in the park and along the relatively undeveloped coastline of Lake Champlain.
Although it is smaller than the Great Lakes of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Superior, or Michigan, Lake Champlain is a large body of fresh water.
Lake Champlain is situated in the Lake Champlain Valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York, drained northward by the long Richelieu River into the St. Lawrence River at Sorel-Tracy, Quebec northeast and downstream of Montreal.
Lake Champlain also receives water from Lake George via the La Chute River.
It occurs in prominent outcropping at Goodsell Ridge, Isle La Motte, the northernmost island in Lake Champlain.
Together, these three sites provide a unique narrative of events which took place over 450 million years ago in the ocean in the Southern Hemisphere, long before the emergence of Lake Champlain 20 thousand years ago.
In colonial times, Lake Champlain provided an easily traversed water ( or, in winter, ice ) passage between the Saint Lawrence and the Hudson Valleys.
The Battle of Lake Champlain, also known as the Battle of Plattsburgh, fought on September 11, 1814, ended the final British invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812.
Three US Naval ships have been named after this battle, including the USS Lake Champlain ( CV-39 ), the USS Lake Champlain ( CG-57 ), and a cargo ship used during World War I.
Following the War of 1812, the US Army began construction on " Fort Blunder ", an unnamed fortification built by the Americans at the northernmost end of Lake Champlain to protect against any further attacks from British Canada.

Lake and French
However, two French traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers, learned from the Cree that the best fur country was north and west of Lake Superior and that there was a " frozen sea " still further north.
Lake Erie was the last of the Great Lakes to be explored by Europeans, since the Iroquois who occupied the Niagara River area were in conflict with the French, and they did not allow explorers or traders to pass through.
A French map produced in 1712 ( currently in the Canadian Museum of Civilization ), created by military engineer Jean-Baptiste de Couagne, identified Lake Ontario as " Lac Frontenac ".
It is believed that the French explorer Jean Nicolet was the first non-Native American to reach Lake Michigan in 1634 or 1638.
The most important geographical feature of the area surrounding Lausanne is Lake Geneva ( Lac Léman in French ).
Samuel de Champlain reached Lake Huron in 1615, and French missionaries began to establish posts along the Great Lakes.
Bismarck proposed that Prussia should exploit Austria's weakness to move her frontiers " as far south as Lake Constance " on the Swiss border ; instead Prussia mobilised troops in the Rhineland to deter further French advances into Venetia.
* 1755 – French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
French cartographers discovered the remnants of an ancient north-south canal running past the east side of Lake Timsah and ending near the north end of the Great Bitter Lake in the second half of the 19th century.
* July 26 – Seven Years ' War ( French and Indian War ): At the southern end of Lake Champlain, British forces capture Fort Carillon from French, and rename it Fort Ticonderoga.
The best-known, most elaborate, and most popular events are in New Orleans, while other South Louisiana cities such as Lake Charles, Lafayette, Mamou, Houma, and Thibodaux all of which were under French control at one time or another, are the sites of famous Carnival celebrations of their own.
On 1 January 1996, the community officially changed its name from Lac La Martre to the Tłı ̨ chǫ name " Wha Ti ", meaning " Marten Lake ," the same meaning as the French and then on 4 August 2005 to the current spelling.
Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the Canadians and the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York in the United States.
In 1755, following the Battle of Lake George, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor of the French Province of Canada, sent his cousin Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to design and construct a fortification at this militarily important site, which the French called Fort Carillon.
The French built the fort to control the south end of Lake Champlain and prevent the British from gaining military access to the lake.
The Baby Killers, a 2010 steampunk novel by Jay Lake from PS Publishing recasts Le Pétomane as a French secret agent.
The French, the first European visitors to the region, often referred to Lake Huron as La Mer Douce, " the fresh-water sea ".
In 1656, a map by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, refers to the lake as Karegnondi, a Wendat word which has been variously translated as " Freshwater Sea ", " Lake of the Hurons ", or simply " lake ".
The French colonists and explorers, who spelled the term Kilistinon, Kiristinon, and Cristinaux, used the term for numerous tribes which they encountered north of Lake Superior, in Manitoba, and west of there.
* Kapapamahchakwew ( Kā-papāmahcahkwêw, Kapapa Machatiwe, Papamahchakwayo, French: ‘ Esprit Errant ’, better known as Wandering Spirit, war chief of the Plains Cree under Mistahimaskwa, born 1845 near Jackfish Lake, Saskatchewan, committed on 2 April 1885, the so-called Frog Lake massacre, killed the Indian Agent Thomas Quinn and eight whites and one Métis, surrendered in July at Fort Pitt, was hanged on 27 November 1885 in Battleford, Saskatchewan )

Lake and lac
One of those early Acadians was Arthur LeBlanc, and travelers passing through the country began to refer to the lake as le lac d ' Arthur, and through time, it evolved into the present name, Lake Arthur.
Lamartine is famous for his partly autobiographical poem, " Le lac " (" The Lake "), which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the point of view of the bereaved man.
The Meech Lake Accord ( French: Accord du lac Meech ) was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the ten provincial premiers.
Lake Athabasca (; French: lac Athabasca ; from Woods Cree: aðapaskāw, " there are plants one after another ") is located in the northwest corner of Saskatchewan and the northeast corner of Alberta between 58 ° and 60 ° N.
The city is located on the northwestern shore of the Lake of Neuchâtel ( lac de Neuchâtel in French and Neuenburgersee in German ), a few kilometers east of Peseux and west of Saint-Blaise.
Great Bear Lake ( Slavey: Sahtú, French: Grand lac de l ' Ours ) is the largest lake entirely within Canada ( Lake Superior and Lake Huron straddling the Canada-US border are larger ), the fourth largest in North America, and the seventh largest in the world.
It issues from the west side of Rainy Lake ( French: lac à la Pluie ; Ojibwe: Gojijii-zaaga ' igan ) and flows generally west-northwest, between International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, and between Baudette, Minnesota, and Rainy River, Ontario.
As well as the series, this category contains Tintin and the Lake of Sharks, a comic not written by Hergé based on the film Tintin et le lac aux requins ; and Le Thermozéro, a comic Hergé attempted and then abandoned.
Being located at the tip of the Leman peninsula ( presqu ' île de Léman ), Yvoire delimits the two main parts of the Lake Geneva, the " petit lac " and the " grand lac ".
# Au lac de Wallenstadt ( At Lake Wallenstadt )-Liszt's caption is from Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ( Canto 3 LXVIII-CV ): " Thy contrasted lake / With the wild world I dwell in is a thing / Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake / Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.
Rainy Lake ( French: lac à la Pluie ; Ojibwe: gojijii-zaaga ' igan ) is a relatively large freshwater lake () that straddles the border between the United States and Canada.
* Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman — a public Swiss company operating boats on Lake Geneva
It wasn't until 1960 that Lake Pishkanogami became Ivanhoe Lake or lac Ivanhoe in French.
Lake of Two Mountains ( French: lac des Deux Montagnes ) is part of the river delta widening of the Ottawa River in Quebec, Canada, where it feeds into the St. Lawrence River.

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