Lord Howe’s Grave

George Augustus Lord Viscount Howe, who was in command of the British Army under Abercromby, was killed near Trout Brook on July 6th, 1758, in a skirmish with a French detachment. On October 3rd, 1889, a workman digging a trench across the street from this point accidentally opened a grave containing the skeleton of a man and found at its head a stone, now in the Black Watch Library in this village, inscribed in rude letters evidently picked by a bayonet point, “Mem of Lo Howe killed Trout Brook.” In this place, then wilderness, fell a gallant man praised by General Wolfe as “The noblest Englishman of my time, and the best soldier in the British Army,” by Pitt as “A complete model of military virtue,” and by Putnam as “The idol and soul of the army.” These remains are now buried under the boulder placed in memory of the military heroes of Ticonderoga in front of the main entrance of the school building on these grounds.

Ticonderoga, New York · United States