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Fort Oswego was a British fort built in 1727 as a stone stronghold to protect fur-trading interests on the Great Lakes. Around 1742, outer walls and blockhouses were added, but the fort remained vulnerable to artillery fire from higher elevations. In 1755-56, the British built Fort George on the hill west of Fort Oswego and Fort Ontario on the bluff across the harbor. Lightly armed, poorly supplied, and surrounded by hostile Indians, all three forts and their garrisons of around 1700 British and provincial troops, tradesmen, women, and children fell in August 1756 to a larger French army with Canadian and Indian allies under Major General Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm.
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Oswego, New York · United States
