The village of TICONDEROGA is located in northeastern New York State, on the La Chute River, which links Lake George and Lake Champlain. Ticonderoga was founded in 1764, and incorporated as a village 1889. In 1755, during the French and Indian War, the French built Fort Carillon on Lake Champlain. The fort withstood a major British attack in 1758, but was captured the following year by the British under General Jeffrey Amherst and renamed Fort Ticonderoga. In 1775, during the American Revolution, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys seized the fort from the British in a surprise attack. British troops under General John Burgoyne recaptured it in 1777, after fortifying nearby Mount Defiance and forcing an American evacuation. It was abandoned by the British later that year. The name Ticonderoga is derived from an Iroquois term, reputed to mean “where the waters meet”. The TICONDEROGA was run at a mile and an eighth from 1984 to 1988. From 1989 to 1996 it was run on the main track at a distance of a mile and a sixteenth. In 1997, the distance was changed to a mile and an eighth, and it was moved to the Turf.