About This Tour
This tour will appeal to intelligent, educated adults who like to learn and play while on vacation and who do not feel comfortable in large groups. Participants stay in an exclusive Vermont resort hotel for the entirety of the tour, making daily excursions to the related sites and sights. Participants per tour limited to six persons. Your guide remains with and is accessible to the tour group the whole time. Travel is by luxury air-conditioned van and cabin cruiser. Meals are at the hotel or at distinguished local restaurants. Five nights’ lodging, all meals, personal guide services, admissions, tour travel, tips, and taxes are included. An abundance of recreational opportunities is available.
Participants stay well, learn well, eat well, and play well.
History & Scope
With the exception of the battles of Bunker Hill, Yorktown, and Quebec, almost every major battle that took place in North America before the Civil War occurred between Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain and Saratoga on the Hudson. Within this theatre of war the French lost their claims to North America and, nineteen years later, the British lost the decisive battle for control of the Colonies. Participants will learn of the strategies devised in Paris and London for control of this region and will visit the following sites:
Forts Ticonderoga and Independence
Crown Point and Chimney Point
Whitehall (Skenesborough), birthplace of the U.S. Navy
Fort Anne and Fort Edward
Fort William Henry (Fort George)
Hubbardton Battlefield
Saratoga Battlefield and Monument
Lake Champlain and Lake George
Itinerary
Day 1:Arrive: Transfer from airport.
Evening Get-together: Cocktails
Dinner at the Inn
Day 2:Breakfast at the Inn.
Morning orientation: Military Strategy of Two Wars. Lunch at the Inn
Afternoon: Excursion by road to Whitehall, birthplace of the U. S. Navy. Orientation of Lake Champlain to the Great Carrying Place, Fort Edward, the Hudson, Albany, and New York City
Dinner at the Inn
Day 3:Breakfast at the Inn
All day: By boat: Exploring the waterway from Crown Point to Fort Anne. Stops at Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Independence, the Chute. Southward towards Whitehall and the line of march to Saratoga
Lunch onboard
Dinner at Arlington Inn, Manchester, VT
Day 4: Breakfast at the Inn
All day: Exploration by land from Fort Independence to Fort
Edward and Fort William Henry (Fort George), Lunch at the Fort William Henry Inn. Presentation: France Loses North America: Overview of the Seven Years War Britain Loses the Colonies: Saratoga the Turning Point of the American Revolution
Cruise Lake George
Dinner at the Inn at Lake George
Day 5:Breakfast at the Inn
By land: Burgoyne's March to Disaster/St. Clair's Retreat to
Triumph. Hubbardton. Stillwater, Bemis Heights, the Battles of Saratoga
Picnic Lunch
Dinner at the Inn
Day 6: Breakfast at the Inn
Departure: Transfer to the airport.
Tour Leadership
Tours are conducted by Jack Rogers who is a graduate of Williams College and Oxford University. These tours are an outgrowth of his interest in French history (and the two Napoleons) and his research into the rich heritage of the area. His remarks are urbane, clear, and succinct. Told from the interested layman’s point of view, they are crafted to the amateur’s level of interest. Mr. Rogers believes that each tour should be a well-rounded, insightful, fun, and happy experience.
Food, Lodging & Recreation
Participants are lodged for the entirety of each tour at one of several exclusive Vermont resort hotels. All meals are included. Breakfasts are at the inn. Lunches are en route at local restaurants or picnic-style; dinners are at distinguished local restaurants.
We patronize the following prime properties:
Basin Harbor Inn, Vergennes, VT
Mountain Top Inn, Chittenden, VT
West Mountain Inn, Arlington, VT
Arlington Inn, Arlington, VT
In the halcyon days of summer the area abounds with superb recreation opportunities: golf, tennis, riding, water sports, hiking, fishing and exotica such as ballooning and hang gliding.
Transport/Travel
Tours start and end at the lodging facility. Tour travel is by luxury air-conditioned van and cabin cruiser. The area is served by Burlington and Rutland airports. Transfers may be arranged.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
All meals are included:
* breakfast each day at the hotel;
* lunch on the road;
* dinner each night at a distinguished local restaurant.
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