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	Valcour Records
		Red and blue neon permeates the scene and, as the band pounds, the wooden deck of the dance floor threatens to crash to the ground or fly clear into the louisiana sky.
		Cow island hop is likely the most creative recording project to come out of this new era from a band that has become one of the most important voices for Louisiana Cajun youth; proud of their heritage, confident of their roots and ready to soar into the future.
		Cedric Watson will be celebrating the release of his popular solo debut with Valcour Records in a performance with the Iguanas at Lafayette’s Blue Moon Saloon on March 28th.
	www.valcourrecords.com (1063 words)

	Valcour Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Valcour Island is an island in Lake Champlain in Clinton County, New York, USA.
		The island is mostly in the Town of Peru and partly in the Town of Plattsburgh, southeast of the City of Plattsburgh.
		On October 11, 1776, a naval engagement known as the Battle of Valcour Island was fought in that strait between British and United States naval forces under Benedict Arnold.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valcour_Island (211 words)

	A historical tale of free love and utopia on Valcour Island (Site not responding. Last check: )
		VALCOUR — At first glance, it sounds like the plot from a bad 1960s TV movie: forsaking the overwhelming demands of civilization for a peaceful existence in a communal, free-love society.
		But the small group of people who came to Valcour Island for a short time in the 1870s to find their own utopia had some remarkable differences from the peace-loving, flower-toting hippies of the ’60s who thought free love meant lots of sex with lots of people.
		Although the property was not as promising at Shipman had suggested, Wilcox was enamored by the beauty of Valcour, Lake Champlain and the Adirondack and Green mountains on either side of the island.
	archive.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2003/05_2003/052520037.htm (1223 words)

	National Park Service - Colonials and Patriots (Valcour Bay)
		Carleton's vessels sailed down the eastern side of Valcour Island and were south of it before the crewmen caught sight of Arnold's fleet.
		The sound or bay between the island and the west shore of the lake is three-quarters of a mile wide.
		Although the shore of Lake Champlain has been built up to some extent, and Valcour Island is the property of several private owners, the island and, more importantly, the bay where the fighting took place have suffered little loss of integrity as landmarks of the War for Independence.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/colonials-patriots/sitec34.htm (668 words)

	New York
		Valcour Island is in Clinton County, in the Plattsburgh metro
		At the southern end of the island is Savage Reef the spot where the Royal Savage became grounded in the battle and was destroyed.
		This island was used as a Hospital during the war of 1812.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze6ymer/id20.html (806 words)

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		The consequence was that the American flotilla was not discovered until Valcour Island, which is from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and eighty feet high throughout its two miles of length, was so far passed that the attack had to be made from the south,--from leeward.
		Valcour is on the west side of the Lake, about three quarters of a mile from the main; but a peninsula projecting from the island at mid-length narrows this interval to a half-mile.
		Long Island Sound and the upper Bay of New York are connected by a crooked and difficult passage, known as the East River, eight or ten miles in length, and at that time nearly a mile wide[15] abreast the city of New York.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/6/6/0/16602/16602.txt (15569 words)

	Bluff Point (Valcour Island) Lighthouse, New York at Lighthousefriends.com
		Funding for the Bluff Point Lighthouse on Valcour Island was approved by Congress on July 15, 1870 in the amount of $15,000.
		In the mid-1980's, Dr. Raboff offered the property to the State of New York, which controlled the rest of Valcour Island as part of Adirondack State Park, so the lighthouse could be protected and made available to the public.
		The island is roughly a mile offshore from the towns of Valcour and South Junction.
	www.lighthousefriends.com /light.asp?ID=675 (1331 words)

	New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation
		The islands are located in Lake Champlain in the towns of Peru and Plattsburgh, Clinton County and the towns of Chesterfield, Westport and Crown Point, Essex County.
		The 1,100 acre Valcour Island and 40-acre Crab Island are located near the City of Plattsburgh in the towns of Plattsburgh and Peru.
		Valcour Island and Schuyler Island are classified as Primitive with respect to the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan.
	nysparks.state.ny.us /news/press/print.asp?pressID=282 (1128 words)

	Paddling Around the Lake - Port Kent to Plattsburgh
		Valcour Island is a state park and undeveloped except for a campground accessible only by boat and a lighthouse.
		I never pass Valcour Island without a good deal of respect and awe for the naval battle that took place there in October of 1777, and the role it played in eventually allowing us to win the American Revolution.
		Aside from its historical significance Crab Island is notorious for its prolific poison ivy.
	www.lclt.org /Journals/KTPKPlattsburgh.htm (2235 words)

	Trumbull (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Trumbull was among Arnold's vessels that anchored in the lee of Valcour Island, south of Plattsburgh, N.Y., by early October, to await the British onslaught.
		Thus, the Battle of Valcour Island ended in a crushing tactical defeat for the Americans since it all but annihilated Arnold's flotilla and left the British in full control of Lake Champlain.
		Then, when the Royal Navy finally did manage to best Arnold's flotilla at Valcour Island in the autumn of 1776, winter was too close to permit English land forces to take advantage of British victory by a thrust down the corridor to attack Washington's army from the rear.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t8/trumbull-i.htm (948 words)

	Valcour Conference Center - About Valcour (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Valcour Educational Conference Center is part of the Plattsburgh State University of New York campus and use is limited to individuals affiliated with this institution, i.e., faculty, staff, students, alumni, and College Council members.
		Although Arnold was defeated, the defeat caused the British fleet to retire to Canada for the winter.
		Congressman Joseph Sibley acquired the Valcour property in 1904 and used it until 1915.
	plattsburghcas.com /valcour/about-valcour.htm (420 words)

	Maritime Research Institute Projects: Valcour Bay Research Project
		Today, the waters around Valcour Island are frequented by recreational boaters who are drawn to the sparsely developed area for its Adirondack and Green Mountain vistas, and the sheltered waters created by the inlets around the Island.
		The Valcour Bay Research Project (VBRP) is a cooperative effort between a dedicated team of volunteer sport divers and the Maritime Research Institute of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.
		The intent of the VBRP is to map the submerged Valcour Island battlefield, while providing sport divers a way to channel their interest in history and archaeology into a formally permitted project.
	www.lcmm.org /mri/projects/vbrp.htm (967 words)

	Aiming for big doings; Battle of Valcour fete set (Site not responding. Last check: )
		VALCOUR — Cannon fire along the shores of Lake Champlain will signal the region’s appreciation for one of the most significant naval battles of the Revolutionary War.
		Local history buffs have organized a celebration of Benedict Arnold and the Battle of Valcour Island, a conflict in which a fledgling American fleet held off a vastly superior British Navy long enough to turn the war in America’s favor.
		Hudson Haaglund, whose father raised the American vessels Philadelphia and Royal Savage from near Valcour Island in the 1930s, will discuss his father’s efforts in saving a piece of the lake’s history.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2001/08_2001/080120013.htm (598 words)

	ENB Statewide Notices
		Valcour Island, located in Clinton County, Towns of Plattsburgh and Peru, is a 1,100 acre Primitive Area of forested calcareous outcrop located within the Lake Champlain Valley.
		Valcour Island, the largest of the seven islands, is accessible by boat for camping, hiking, wildlife viewing and hunting.
		The outcropping of Ordovician limestone bedrock that forms Valcour Island is unusual and gives rise to a mosaic of uncommon communities and the largest concentration of rare plants in eastern Clinton County.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/enb2006/20060621/not0.html (2262 words)

	Fall Paddling 05
		Crab Island was used to care for the sick and injured during the Battle of Plattsburgh in the War of 1812.
		With nothing but sandals to protect my feet from the abundant poison ivy and having toured the island the preceding summer with the couple who have been working so hard to restore this island so that its history could be appropriately honored and appreciated, I declined to join her.
		Valcour is owned by the state of New York who maintains it as a primitive camping area.
	www.lclt.org /PaddlingFall05.htm (4607 words)

	Wayside Exhibits: Point Au Roche State Park
		To be installed in the spring of 2004 at the Peru Dock Access Area in New York are four bilingual exhibits recounting the Battle of Valcour, Lake commerce, and Valcour's archaeological legacy.
		An exhibit describing the Valcour Island Primitive Area and the hiking and camping opportunities on the Island is located at both the dock and on the island itself.
		Valcour Island Primitive Area (Peru Dock & Valcour Island) (135 KB)
	www.lcbp.org /wayside/sites/valcour.htm (105 words)

	History : 1609 - 1870
		This event, named the Battle of Valcour, is considered by historians to be a turning point of the Revolutionary War in favor of the colonists.
		Many of the soldiers who died of their wounds on Crab Island were buried there, the graves remaining to this day.
		Valcour Island which provides part of the panorama seen from the Bluff Point elevation, is the site of one of the oldest heron rookeries in North America.
	www.northnet.org /clintoncc/cccpage/1609.htm (467 words)

	Welcome to Audubon Vermont!
		The largest two colonies occur on Valcour Island in New York and at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge in Vermont.
		Valcour Island is currently the largest colony on the lake, especially since the decline of the Missisquoi colony in 2000-2001.
		Bald eagles are suspected in the decline of the Missisquoi colony.
	vt.audubon.org /greatBlueHeron.html (217 words)

	Lake Champlain Trivia
		It is the largest of the lake's uninhabited islands with a surface area of 1000 acres.
		Last year, a pair of glossy ibis were the first of its species to nest on the islands.
		This island is an example of habitat being encroached upon by cormorants since the biologists also counted 34 pairs of the invasive birds among the heron nests.
	www.angelfire.com /home/lake/trivia.html (1275 words)

	New York
		A week later on the morning of the 11th, the two forces met in the Battle of Valcour Island which resulted in a tactical American defeat but was a great strategic victory for the patriots’ cause.
		Battered during the action off Valcour Island, Arnold’s ships slipped through the hands of the British fleet and retired south up the Lake toward Crown Point.
		After the Battle of Valcour Island, winter was too close to permit them to begin the campaign.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/n4/new_york-i.htm (366 words)

	Cruising to Solitude \| Wendy Knight \| Adventure Travel Stories
		With 600 miles of shoreline and 70 islands, Lake Champlain-- named after Samuel de Champlain, a French explorer and the first white man to navigate this body of water in the early 1600s-- offers ample exploration for the nautical adventurer.
		Burton Island, accessible by boat or ferry, has 17 tent sites, 26 lean-tos, 15 boat moorings and a 100-slip marina, plus canoe and kayak rentals, a nature center, food service and other amenities.
		Arnold successfully defended against the British at the Battle of Valcour Island, further up the lake, and retreated to what is now known as Arnold's Bay.
	www.outerquest.com /oq.cfm/admin/articles (1338 words)

	VALCOURBAY
		The schooner, by some bad management, fell to leeward and was first attacked; one of her masts was wounded, and her rigging shot away.
		The captain thought prudent to run her on the point of Valcour, where all the men were saved.
		The enemy landed a large number of Indians on the island and each shore, who kept an incessant fire on us, but did little damage.
	www.multied.com /revolt/battleaccounts/VALCOURBAY/VALCOURBAY.html (471 words)

	Battlefield Objects Pulled From Lake, Battlefield Artifacts From America's Birth Pulled From Lake Champlain - ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Historians today consider the Battle of Valcour Island a "victory in defeat" that gave Colonial forces a chance to win at Saratoga _ and eventually win the Revolutionary War.
		A first peek was given during a lakeside ceremony across from Valcour Island.
		Had Arnold died in the Battle of Valcour, he would be famous mostly for cunning and bravery, instead of treachery.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/07/01/ap/tech/mainD8IIS8IG0.shtml (670 words)

	Maritime History in Lake Champlain 2
		The gunboat Philadelphia (above) is a faithful recreation of the vessels built hastily by Benedict Arnold to slow the British advance on Lake Champlain in 1776.
		As Brian Mann reports, archeologists are pulling long-lost artifacts from the muddy silt near the battle at Valcour Island.
		A cannon from the original Battle of Valcour Island was recovered last year from the bottom of Lake Champlain by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and is now being restored.
	www.northcountrypublicradio.org /news/valcour.html (230 words)

	Arnold at Valcour Bay
		He sought the most favorable position he could find, choosing to array his fleet in an arc from Valcour Island to near the New York shore in an area a few miles south of the village of Plattsburgh.
		The significance of Arnold’s defense would be noted in the following year’s campaign when the British again mounted an offensive from the north; had Arnold and his men failed, the campaign of 1777 would have begun from Ticonderoga rather than Canada and might have ended differently.
		to the remarkable skill exhibited in the disposition of the little fleet at Valcour Island, which was the same in principle as that by which Macdonough won his brilliant victory, not far from the same spot, in 1814.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1291.html (833 words)

	Battle of Valcour Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British fleet took up positions at noon around 300 yards (300 m) in front of the American battle line with the small gunboats forward, and the five main ships around 50-100 yards behind the gunboats.
		Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate, and the Americans were caught short of their goal.
		The small island was later named Carleton's prize.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Valcour_Island (1209 words)

	Champ, The Lake Champlain Monster
		As I approached Valcour Island from the north, I noticed a horse shaped head moving at a quick pace toward the New York shore.
		I neared the moving object and could see the rhythmic action of the head and neck as well as a wake extending some 20 feet behind, convincing me that I was actually witnessing a swimming creature.
		Unfortunately, what I saw swimming before me was a large antlerless deer apparently leaving Valcour Island for the mainland.
	www.angelfire.com /home/lake/champ.html (293 words)

	The Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain- America's Historic Lakes
		Awaiting them, hidden behind a large island just south of the Head, was a motley assortment of vessels-15 in all- hastily constructed of green timber shortly before at Skenesborough- the southernmost head of navigation on the lake.
		They expected to meet their enemy in the vicinity of Crown Point, and with such overwhelming strength, it was believed they would easily reopen the vital lake corridor to His Majesty's army.
		By that time the brisk wind from the north had taken them too far south, past the island, and it was necessary to attempt to change direction—against the wind—back towards the west in order to engage the enemy.
	www.historiclakes.org /Valcour/valcour_battle.htm (2556 words)

	The Battle of Valcour Island
		The Battle of Valcour was one of the most important battles in the American Revolutionary War.
		But as the Carleton came to the island, she neared some rocks and was forced toward the center of Arnold's ships.
		The battle of Valcour Island, I think, was the most important battle in the entire war.
	www.vuhs.org /project/valcour.htm (1861 words)

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