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Arnold took a small schooner and several bateaux from Skenesboro north with 50 volunteers. On [[May 18]] they seized another garrison at [[Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec|Fort St. Johns]] along with the ''Enterprise'', a seventy ton sloop. Aware that several companies were stationed a twelve miles down river at [[Chambly, Quebec|Chambly]], they loaded the more valuable captured supplies and cannon, burned the boats they couldn't take and returned to Crown Point.

Ethan Allen and his men returned home. Benedict Arnold remained with some Connecticut replacements in command at Ticonderoga. At first the [[Continental Congress]] wanted the men and forts returned to the British, but on [[May 31]] they bowed to pressure from [[Massachusetts]] and Connecticut and agreed to keep them. Connecticut sent a regiment under Colonel [[Benjamin Hinman]] to hold Ticonderoga. When Arnold learned that he was second to Hinman, he resigned his Connecticut commission and went home.

In the winter of 1775-[[1776]], [[Henry Knox]] moved the guns of Ticonderoga to [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], to support the [[Siege of Boston]]. The captured ships were used, along with others, in [[1776]] by then General Arnold to thwart Britain's attempt at recapture in the [[Battle of Valcour Island]]. Ticonderoga was retaken by the British [[Saratoga Campaign]] in [[1777]], but abandoned after their surrender at the [[Battle of Saratoga]].