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Lake George is a long narrow lake at the base of the Adirondack Mountains, northern New York, USA. The lake extends about 52 kilometers on a north-south axis and varies for 1.5 to 5 km in width. It drains into Lake Champlain to its north through a short stream (La Chute River) with many falls and rapids, dropping about 50 meters in its 4 km course.

The original name in Iroquois was said to be Andiatarocte, the lake shut in and was named by the French Lac du Saint Sacremente, Lake of the Holy Sacrament.

The Village of Lake George is located on the south end of Lake George and the Village of Ticonderoga is at the northern end.

History

The first European visitor to the area, Samuel de Champlain, noted the lake his journal on July 3, 1609, but never named it. In 1646 the missionary Isaac Jogues named it Lac du Saint-Sacrement, and the exit stream as the river La Chute.

On August 28, 1755Events January 25 Moscow University established. July 9 French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat inflicted by French and Indian forces. During the battle, British Genera, Sir William JohnsonSir William Johnson ( 1715- 1774) was an English pioneer and soldier in western New York, and the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs from 1755-1774. He served on the Governor's Council in New York, earned the rank of Major General in the British for led British colonial forces to occupy the area in the French and Indian WarThe French and Indian War was a nine-year conflict ( 1754- 1763) in North America and was one of the conflict theatres of the Seven Years' War. The conflict was between Britain and its colonies on one side and France, with indian allies, on the other.. He renamed the lake as Lake George for King George and built a protecting fortification at its southern end. The fort was named for the king's son as Fort William HenryThe British Fort William Henry on the shores of Lake George, New York, was built during the French and Indian War ( 1754- 1763) as a staging ground for attacks against the French Fort Carillon ( Fort Ticonderoga). It was part of a chain of British and Fre. In September, the French responded by beginning construction of Fort Carillon, later called Fort TiconderogaFort Ticonderoga is a large 18th century fort built at a strategically important narrows in Lake Champlain where a short traverse gives access to the north end of Lake George in the state of New York, USA. The fort controlled both commonly used trade rout, on a point where La Chute enters Lake Champlain. These fortifications controlled the easy water route between CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe and Colonial New York.