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Artifacts From America's Birth on Display

PERU, N.Y. Jul 1, 2006 (AP)— More than 229 years ago, Gen. Benedict Arnold led his crew of sailors on Lake Champlain against a far superior British fleet near here and lost. But their dogged fight in October 1776 delayed British movement south for a year, when they would be defeated in the Battle of Saratoga.

Historians today consider the Battle of Valcour Island a "victory in defeat" that gave Colonial forces a chance to win at Saratoga and eventually the Revolutionary War.

On Saturday, dozens of artifacts from that pivotal battle gathered from the lake by divers over the last seven years will be exhibited at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Ferrisburgh, Vt.
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