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This is a list of forts in New France built by the French government or French chartered companies in what later became Canada, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States. They range from large European-type citadels like at Quebec City to tiny fur-trade posts. [3]
Colonial French forts of New France — within the present day United States. Built in New France , including within the domaine of Colonial Louisiana in the Mississippi Basin . Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... French forts in the United States (56 P) Pages in category "French forts in North America"
Fort Duquesne (/ dj uː ˈ k eɪ n / dew-KAYN, French:; originally called Fort Du Quesne [citation needed]) was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. It was later taken over by the British, and later the Americans, and developed as Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
A 1777 map depicting Lake Champlain and the upper Hudson River. In 1755, following the Battle of Lake George, the French decided to construct a fort here. Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor of the French Province of Canada, sent his cousin Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to design and construct a fortification at this militarily important site, which the French called Fort Carillon. [9]
Some buildings within the fort compound had the French mansard roof style, with dormer windows extending from each roof (see enlarged building images below, or building profiles at top of 1725 map). [2] The tall chimneys at the ends of the buildings, shown in the map profile, were not used on the reconstructed Fort Condé.
Fort of the Conception and the Triumph, Ozamiz City; Fort Pilar, Zamboanga City; Fort San Pedro, Cebu City; Fort San Pedro, Iloilo City; Fort San Felipe, Cavite City; Fort Santa Isabel, Taytay, Palawan; Fort Santiago, Intramuros, Manila; San Diego de Alcala Fortress, Gumaca, Quezon; Cuartel de Santo Domingo, Santa Rosa City, Laguna
The original fort was a palisade of logs with two bastions at opposite corners. Within five years, flooding from the Mississippi had left the original fort in bad condition. [6] Construction of a second fort further from the river, but still on the flood plain, began in 1725. This fort was also made of logs and had a bastion at each of the four ...