Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold led a small group of militia soldiers to capture Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York on May 10, 1775. As it was a capture rather than a battle, no one was killed though one Continental soldier was stabbed in the leg. The fort, which had been owned by the French but taken by the British, was an important strategic position and contained valuable cannons and supplies that could be used to support the siege of Boston.