Outwit Quotes
Gaming the system is the process of finding loopholes or arranging things so that you can get around the law and usually do just what is prohibited in a way that is not a criminal offense. It is done mostly by corporations trying to avoid laws and regulations, but government officials in the Executive Branch often do the same thing to get around the laws which have been passed but the current administration now finds inconvenient.
The King was correct in what had happened but had poor intelligence as to the strategic significance of the two Forts in the Lake George, New York area. The forts controlled the northern end of Lake George and the southern end of Lake Champlain---the major waterway from Canada into the Hudson Valley. The British victory had no effect on the Americans because the British already controlled Canada and the Americans were no longer trading with Canada before Ticonderoga and Defiance were taken back by the British.
