Battle of Valcour Island 1776

For those one or two of you who are interested in such things maybe I ought to mention today is the anniversary of this Naval engagement in the American Revolution on Lake Champlain. The battle is said to be the birth of the American Navy. I think it's hard for people in the UK who haven't seen American lakes to imagine naval battles on lakes as it conjures up images of Swallows and Amazons , so for the sake of understanding the scale I think yanks should rename the lakes 'seas' for our benefit.