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Updated February 15, 2024

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Brigadier General Benedict Arnold lost the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain in 1776—as well as several of the young navy's ships, including the gunboat Spitfire—but the skirmish bought the Continental Army much-needed time in the war.

Benedict Arnold's Lake Champlain Gunboat Is the Last Shipwreck of Its Kind

Preserved in the lake's chilly waters for more than 200 years, the Spitfire now faces a new threat.
by Hope Hodge Seck
A Canada warbler. Davies and his group saw about 14,000 of these, roughly 2 percent of their overall tally.

Dispatches From Inside a Record-Breaking Bird Migration

What it's like to find yourself among 721,620 warblers, all in a hurry.
by Cara Giaimo
The cage on display in 2015.

The Hanging Cage That Held an Infamous Québec Murderess

It had been all but forgotten for most of the 20th century.
by Eric Grundhauser

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