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27/2/2005

Remnant of Revolutionary War engineering marvel washes ashore

FERRISBURGH, Vt. — A bridge built across Lake Champlain by about 2,500 underfed and sick Continental Army soldiers in the late winter and early spring of 1777 was considered a marvel of 18th Century engineering.

Historians figure thousands of huge pine logs were skidded onto the ice in March and April, notched together like Lincoln Logs, and then sunk with rocks through holes the soldiers cut in the ice.
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