Artifacts From America's Birth on Display
July 2nd, 2006
Dennis O'Neil a diver from Plattsburgh, N.Y., top, talks about the pieces of a six-pound cannon, foreground, on Friday, June 30, 2006, in Peru, N.Y. Divers have spent the last seven years combing the bottom of Lake Champlain in search of "battlefield scatter" from the crucial 1776 Battle of Valcour near Peru. (AP Photo/ Jim McKnight)
(AP) -- More than 229 years ago, Gen. Benedict Arnold led his crew of sailors on Lake Champlain against a far superior British fleet near here and lost. But their dogged fight in October 1776 delayed British movement south for a year, when they would be defeated in the Battle of Saratoga.
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