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A Plan of the New Fort at Pitts-Burgh drawn by cartographer John Rocque in 1765. Fort Pitt was a fort built by British forces between 1759 and 1761 during the French and Indian War at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, where the Ohio River is formed in western Pennsylvania (modern day Pittsburgh).
Drawing comparing Model 1844 8-inch columbiad and Model 1861 10-inch "Rodman" columbiad. The powder chamber on the older columbiad is highlighted by the red box. The Rodman gun is any of a series of American Civil War–era columbiads designed by Union artillery officer Thomas Jackson Rodman [1] (1815–1871).
The Model 1819 24-pounder was an early attempt to produce an iron howitzer. Manufactured by the Fort Pitt Foundry, the short howitzer was 33.12 in (84.1 cm) from base ring to muzzle and had a bore 29.2 in (74.2 cm) long. Of a total of 31 accepted by the US Army, only one is known to have survived.
IX-inch Dahlgren shell gun: 1,185 guns were cast at Alger, Bellona, Fort Pitt, Seyfert, McManus & Co., Tredegar, and West Point foundries between 1855 and 1864. Fort Pitt Foundry also made 16 for the army in 1861. The IX-inch Dahlgren was the most popular and versatile of Dahlgren shell guns made.
The siege of Fort Pitt took place during June and July 1763 in what is now the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.The siege was a part of Pontiac's War, an effort by Native Americans to remove the Anglo-Americans from the Ohio Country and Allegheny Plateau after they refused to honor their promises and treaties to leave voluntarily after the defeat of the French.
In 1824, the Fort Pitt Foundry delivered 74 cast-iron 6-pounder guns out of an order of 100. [5] A second order of 100 cast-iron 6-pounders was delivered in 1828–1830 and at least 10 were rejected. Finally, 113 cast-iron 6-pounders were manufactured in 1836–1838 and 22 were rejected. No more orders were placed with the Fort Pitt Foundry.
An illustration of the Battle of Fort Pitt. The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) played a significant role during the North-West Rebellion in Canada in 1885. The NWMP suffered early reverses and, although they supported the relief force sent to the region under the command of Major-General Frederick Middleton, their performance was heavily criticized.
The Fort Pitt Block House (sometimes called Bouquet's Blockhouse [6] or Bouquet's Redoubt [7]) is a historic building in Point State Park in the city of Pittsburgh.It was constructed in 1764 as a redoubt of Fort Pitt, making it the oldest extant structure in Western Pennsylvania, [8] as well as the "oldest authenticated structure west of the Allegheny Mountains".