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Map indicating the locations of the two forts French forts, 1753 and 1754 A 1755 map clearly showing the location of Fort Duquesne at the upper edge of the map. Model of Fort Duquesne Point State Park in Downtown Pittsburgh, where bricks mark the outline of the former site of Fort Duquesne. These bricks have since been replaced by granite slabs.
Location: Fort Duquesne, site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ... The Battle of Fort Duquesne was a British assault on the French-controlled Fort Duquesne ...
Similar to the unsuccessful Braddock Expedition early in the war, the strategic objective was the capture of Fort Duquesne, a French fort that had been constructed at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River in 1754. The site is now located in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle in the downtown area (Or The Point)
Artist's interpretation of Fort Pitt in 1759 with the Allegheny (left) and Monongahela (right) rivers. At their confluence is the Ohio River, seen at the bottom.. In April 1754, the French began building Fort Duquesne on the site of the small British Fort Prince George at the beginning of the French and Indian War (AKA Seven Years' War). [1]
The French forts were Fort Duquesne and the forts to the north. Setting out from Fort Cumberland in Maryland on May 29, 1755, the expedition faced an enormous logistical challenge: moving a large body of men with equipment, provisions, and (most importantly, for attacking the forts) heavy cannons, across the densely wooded Allegheny Mountains ...
The French held Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War, and it became one of the focal points for that war because of its strategic riverside location in disputed territory. The French held the fort successfully early in the war, turning back the 1755 expedition led by General Edward Braddock.
Forbes Road from Fort Lyttleton to Fort Duquesne. The Forbes Road, a historic military roadway in what was then British America, was initially completed in 1758 from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to the French Fort Duquesne at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh, via Fort Loudon, Fort Lyttleton, Fort Bedford and Fort Ligonier.
It is built on the site of the old Fort Cumberland, a launch pad for British General Edward Braddock's ill-fated attack on the stronghold of Fort Duquesne, located on the site of present-day Pittsburgh during the French and Indian War.