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💡 The Battle of Valcour Island was fought in 1776 on Lake Champlain, in the narrow strait known as Valcour Bay between the New York mainland and Valcour Island. One of the first naval battles of the American Revolutionary War and the first fought by the Continental Navy, it saw Benedict Arnold's American fleet largely captured or destroyed by a British force under General Guy Carleton, yet the defense stalled British plans to reach the upper Hudson River valley.