Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te marama o Hanuere 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 Hānuere 1777, i runga i te tohutohu a Horatio Gates,
I tohua ia e te Kaunihera Continental hei koromatua tuarua me te kaiawhina tuarua mo te rangatira o Fort Ticonderoga.