General Philip Schuyler begins using Fort Ticonderoga in July 1775, as the staging ground for the invasion of Quebec that will be launched in late August.

Although Fort Ticonderoga is not at this time an important military post, its capture has several important results.

Rebel control of the area means that overland communications and supply lines between British forces in Quebec and those in Boston and later New York are severed, so the British military command makes an adjustment to their command structure.

This break in communication is highlighted by the fact that Arnold, on his way north to Saint-Jean, had intercepted a message from Carleton to Gage, detailing the military troop strengths in Quebec.

Command of British forces in North America, previously under a single commander, is divided into two commands.

General Carleton is given independent command of forces in Quebec and the northern frontier, while General William Howe is appointed Commander-in-Chief of forces along the Atlantic coast, an arrangement that had worked well between Generals Wolfe and Amherst in the French and Indian War.

In this war, however, cooperation between the two forces will prove to be problematic and will play a role in the failure of the Saratoga campaign in 1777, as General Howe apparently abandons an agreed-upon northern strategy, leaving General John Burgoyne without southern support in that campaign.