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Fort George is a large 18th-century fortress near Ardersier, to the north-east of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland.It was built to control the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, replacing a Fort George in Inverness constructed after the 1715 Jacobite rising to control the area.
Fort George was a military fortification in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. The fort was used by the British Army, the Canadian militia, ...
A third Fort George was built in Lake George, New York, in 1755. It was destroyed in 1777 and abandoned in 1780. It was located southeast of Fort William Henry facing Lake George, in the wooded area within Lake George Battlefield Park. [3] Fourth fort (Staten Island) A fourth Fort George was an encampment built on Staten Island around 1777 in ...
Fort St. George (or historically, White Town) [1] is a fortress at the coastal city of Chennai, India. Founded in 1639, it was the first English (later British ) fortress in India. [ 2 ] The construction of the fort provided the impetus for further settlements and trading activity, in what was originally an uninhabited land. [ 3 ]
Fort George, former name of Fort Holmes on Mackinac Island, Michigan Fort George , a sub-neighborhood in the extreme northern part of Washington Heights, Manhattan , New York City Fort Amsterdam , a British fort in New York City during the American Revolution, also known as Fort George
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.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary on Monday ordered the U.S. Army to rename Fort Moore back to its original name of Fort Benning, undoing a 2023 name change that was driven by racial ...
Fort George (also sometimes known as Fort Majabigwaduce, Castine, or Penobscot) was a palisaded earthwork fort built in 1779 by Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War in Castine, Maine. Located at a high point on the Bagaduce Peninsula, the fort was built as part of an initiative by the British to establish a new colony called New ...