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Or, Will the Real Isaac Rice Please Stand Up.By Tomas A. Chambers
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Opposite:An illustration rom Benson Lossings Pictorial Field-Book of the
Revolution appears to show an elderly man, perhaps Isaac Rice, guiding
visitors around the ort and identiying its eatures.
Above: Lossings drawing o Rice (right) and his description o their
meeting (let).
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Above: An obituary or Isaac Rice records his age o
87 at death and his wish to be buried in the old
Soldiers burying ground adjoining the ort.
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Above: The ruins o Fort Ticonderoga, ca. 1880. Below: A plan o Fort Ticonderoga in July 1758 during the Seven
Years War. Records show that Rices ather, Asa Rice, served as a lieutenant in the war. Bottom: Ethan Allens
capture o Fort Ticonderoga in 1775. Rice knew the story well and showed visitors the point o Allens entrance.
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