Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I te marama o Hānuere 1776, i uru atu ia ki te 2nd Canadian Regiment o Colonel Moses Hazen. I te marama o Hune, ka whakawhiwhia ia e Brigadier General John Sullivan ki te tango i nga mahi o te kaitohutohu tuarua mai i a Donald Campbell. I te 9 o Hanuere 1777, i runga i te whakaaro a Horatio Gates, te Continental Congress
i whakanohoia ia hei kaitiaki kaitiaki me te kaiawhina o te kaitiaki o te kaitiaki i Fort Ticonderoga.