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The 42d Regiment of Foot, better known as The Royal Highlanders or The Black Watch, suffered heroic losses here on July 8, 1758, when more than six hundred of the thousand men engaged were killed or wounded. Mortally wounded that day was their Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, the hero of one of the most noted ghost stories of Scottish history and of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem “Ticonderoga.”
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Ticonderoga, New York · United States
