Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance Unveils Abercrombie Flotilla Diorama

On Tuesday, July 11th, 2023, The Lake George Battlefield Park Visitor Center at 75 Fort George Road unveiled a new diorama, depicting General Abercrombie’s historic 1758 flotilla of 15,000 troops leaving from the head of Lake George towards their defeat by the French at Ticonderoga.

The Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance (LGBA) was established in 2001 as a volunteer-driven organization focused on the Lake George Region’s critical role in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. The Alliance manages the Battlefield Park’s Visitor Center, and sponsors events throughout the year that educate the public: “My vision of Lake George is a mini Gettysburg…We are in a very special time of the history (pun intended) of our community,” said John DiNuzzo, President of the LGBA.

Last September, a call from “The Adirondack Experience – The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake” initiated the diorama being exhibited. The diorama depicts an event that happened along the shore of the south basin of Lake George, right outside the visitor center windows: “The largest flotilla in North American history left from these shores in this town in 1758… Unfortunately for Abercrombie, the 4,000 or so French successfully resisted that attack. It wasn’t until the following year that the British were able to take Ticonderoga, and take Crown Point,” DiNuzzo said. 

Marisa Muratori was on hand from the Lake George Town Board: “It’s a battle that has been spoken of for generations… I’ve known about it since I was a kid. They say that there were so many Bateaux on the lake at the south basin that were going to Ticonderoga, that you couldn’t see the water… It must have been an extraordinary moment, and I think this is beautifully depicted,” she said.

For more information, please visit Lakegeorgebattlefield.org