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Location of Fort William Henry at the southern end of Lake George A plan of the fort, published in 1765. Fort William Henry was a British fort at the southern end of Lake George, in the province of New York. The fort's construction was ordered by Sir William Johnson in September 1755, during the French and Indian War, as a staging ground for ...
The British and later the Americans never rebuilt anything on the site of Fort William Henry, which lay in ruins for about 200 years. In the 1950s, excavation at the site eventually led to the reconstruction of Fort William Henry as a tourist destination for the town of Lake George. [43]
Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site is a publicly owned historic property operated by the state of Maine near Pemaquid Beach in Bristol, Maine.The site includes the reconstructed Fort William Henry, archaeological remains of 17th- and 18th-century village buildings and fortifications, and a museum with artifacts found on the site including musket balls, coins, pottery, and early hardware.
The English built Fort William Henry in 1692 during King William's War to defend New England's northern boundary against the French and Wabanaki Confederacy of Acadia. (Present-day Castine, Maine was an Acadian settlement, which marked the effective southern boundary of Acadia .) [ 6 ] The Massachusetts government used one third of its budget ...
The British had failed in an expedition against Louisbourg, and defeated at Fort William Henry by the French and their Indian allies. New France's governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil , had attempted to convince German settlers in the Mohawk River valley to support the French cause.
Fort William Henry, open to the public; Maryland. Fort McHenry. Fort Armistead, open to the public; Fort Carroll, closed to the public; Fort Cumberland, demolished;
Daguerreotype of the ruins of Fort Ticonderoga. In August 1757, the French captured Fort William Henry in an action launched from Fort Carillon. [23] This, and a string of other French victories in 1757, prompted the British to organize a large-scale attack on the fort as part of a multi-campaign strategy against French Canada. [24]
The 35th Regiment was deployed to America, where Monro relieved Lieutenant-Colonel William Eyre as commander of Fort William Henry in the Province of New York. [2]: 95 That summer, the French General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm led a force of 7,626 French and Native troops in a weeklong Siege of Fort William Henry.