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The poor wartime design of Fort George led to its replacement by Fort Mississauga in the 1820s, although the grounds of Fort George saw some use by the military until the end of the First World War. During the late-1930s, the Niagara Parks Commission built a reconstruction of Fort George.
Fort Saint Vrain (also called Fort George), built about 1837 near present-day Greeley, Colorado, at the confluence of the South Platte River and St. Vrain Creek. It was the center for trading with the Sioux, Arapaho and Northern Cheyenne. From this point, mail and packages were transported south to Taos.
[21] Fort George became an important port-of-call for the maritime fur trade. By 1818, there about 50 NWC employees at Fort George, over half being Hawaiian Kanakas. [11] In 1821, the North West Company was merged into the Hudson's Bay Company, which took ownership of the fort. Fort George continued to function the primary entrepôt of the ...
A fortress originally built to supress Highland clans and enforce rules preventing clansmen from wearing tartan could become a hub for production of Scotland's famous cloth. Fort George was ...
Fort Amsterdam, a British fort in New York City during the American Revolution, also known as Fort George; Fort George, New York, five different forts in various parts of New York State, built at various times; Fort George, Oregon, the new name for Fort Astoria after the North West Company purchased it from the Pacific Fur Company in 1813
Citadel Hill is a National Historic Site in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.Four fortifications have been constructed on Citadel Hill since the city was founded by the English in 1749, and were referred to as Fort George—but only the third fort (built between 1794 and 1800) was officially named Fort George.
After Parliament left, the building was used as a dining hall by officers from nearby Fort George. Destroyed by U.S. artillery fire in the War of 1812, some of the fort's buildings were re-built by the British, and today's Navy Hall is the only one remaining of that reconstruction.
The fort was not abandoned by the British until 1784. [4] The British re-occupied Castine in the War of 1812 from September 1814 to April 1815, again establishing New Ireland. They rebuilt Fort George, renamed the captured Fort Madison (aka Fort United States) as Fort Castine, [5] and built Forts Furieuse, [6] Gosselin, [7] Griffith, [8] and ...