A stone fort between Lake Champlain and Lake George in what now is northern New York, Fort Ticonderoga was an object of contention during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Fort Ticonderoga was built by the French in 1755 and named Carillon. Three years later the Marquis de Montcalm held off a British assault led by Maj. Gen. James Abercrombie. Jeffrey Amherst succeeded in taking the fort from the French in 1759. Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys seized Fort Ticonderoga from the British. British Gen. John Burgoyne recaptured it in 1777, but the British abandoned it later that year. The fort was restored in the early 20th century.