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    Lake Champlain (/ʃæmˈpleɪn/ sham-PLAYN; French: Lac Champlain) is a natural freshwater lake in North America. It mostly lies between the US states of...
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    USS Lake Champlain (CV/CVA/CVS-39) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy...
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    the French settlement that is now Quebec City. Champlain was the first European to describe the Great Lakes, and published maps of his journeys and accounts...
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    ship to be named Lake Champlain, in honor of Battle of Lake Champlain, which took place during the War of 1812. Lake Champlain was laid down 3 March 1986...
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  • States Navy have been named USS Lake Champlain, after the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812. USS Lake Champlain (1917), was a cargo ship in use...
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    The Champlain Valley is a region of the United States around Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York extending north slightly into Quebec, Canada. It is...
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    Lawrence Seaway, Lake Champlain, Lake of Two Mountains on the lower Ottawa River, the lower Saguenay River, as well as other lakes, islands and shores...
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    American folklore, Champ or Champy is the name of a lake monster said to live in Lake Champlain, a 125-mile (201 km)-long body of fresh water shared...
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    The Lake Champlain Transportation Company (LCTC or LCT) is a vehicle ferry operator that runs three routes across Lake Champlain between the US states...
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    census. The town is located on the western shore of Lake Champlain, near the northern end of Lake Champlain and is on the U.S./Canadian border. The town occupies...
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    The Battle of Plattsburgh, also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain, ended the final British invasion of the northern states of the United States during...
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    The Lake Champlain Seaway was a canal project proposed in the late 19th century and considered as late as the 1960s to connect New York State's Hudson...
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    Thomas Macdonough, later a hero of the Battle of Lake Champlain. The town's position on Lake Champlain helped it develop into a port of entry and center...
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    American naval forces that overpowered a British squadron at the Battle of Lake Champlain, part of the larger Battle of Plattsburgh, which helped lead to an end...
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  • current-neutral swim for Lake Powell, Thomas broke the world record once more in 2017, this time by over 20 miles (32 km) in Lake Champlain. Her 104.6 miles (168...
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    saltwater Champlain Sea. This time is known as the Paleo-Indian period. By about 8,000 years ago, the Champlain Sea had become the freshwater Lake Champlain and...
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    Salmon Creek (Cayuga Lake) Salmon Creek (Lake Ontario) Salmon River (Lake Champlain) Salmon River (New York) Salmon River (Raquette River tributary) Salmon...
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  • Thumbnail for Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain)
    Fort Montgomery on Lake Champlain is the second of two American forts built at the northernmost point of the American part of the lake: a first, unnamed...
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    The Champlain Canal is a 60-mile (97 km) canal in New York that connects the Hudson River to the south end of Lake Champlain. It was simultaneously constructed...
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    The Lake Champlain Bridge is a vehicular bridge traversing Lake Champlain between Crown Point, New York and Chimney Point, Vermont. It replaced an older...
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    George region at the southern end of the lake.[not verified in body] Lake George drains into Lake Champlain to its north through a short stream, the La...
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    SS Lake Champlain was built in 1874 at Glasgow by the shipbuilders London & Glasgow Co. Ltd., she was launched on Christmas Day 1874 and sailed for a mere...
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    population. The much larger Upstate area spreads from the Great Lakes to Lake Champlain and includes the Adirondack Mountains and the Catskill Mountains...
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    left behind a large amount of meltwater (Lake Algonquin, Lake Chicago, Glacial Lake Iroquois, and Champlain Sea) that filled up the basins that the glaciers...
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    The Champlain Bridge (also known as the Crown Point Bridge) was a 2,184-foot-long (666 m) vehicular bridge in the United States that traversed Lake Champlain...
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    before the war as it had only two gunboats on Lake Champlain, one brig on Lake Ontario and another brig in Lake Erie when the war began. The United States...
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    located in the town of Champlain, approximately 4 miles (6 km) west of Lake Champlain, and is north of Plattsburgh. The lake and the village were named...
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    ships, Bunker Hill, Mobile Bay, Antietam, Leyte Gulf, San Jacinto, and Lake Champlain, in 2021 and 2022, instead of dry-docking them for life-extension maintenance...
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    employed defensive and delay tactics at the Battle of Valcour Island in Lake Champlain that gave American forces time to prepare New York's defenses. His performance...
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    Okanagan Lake, Canada Lariosauro, in Lake Como, Italy Champ, in Lake Champlain, Canada and US Memphre, in Lake Memphremagog, Canada and US Bessie, in Lake Erie...
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