Fort Sainte-Thérèse

In 1665, on the shores of the Richelieu near here, soldiers of the Carignan-Salieres regiment built a wooden stockade to protect the new colony and carry the war into Iroquois territory southwest of Lake Champlain. Construction was completed on October 15, the feast day of Saint-Thérèse. The fort was abandoned two years later after peace was made with the Iroquois, then rebuilt in 1747. American Rangers burned it on June 16, 1760, after which the Chevalier de Lévis immediately rebuilt it, then set it on fire at the end of August 1760 after the fall of the French fort at Île aux Noix. In September of that same year, the British occupied the fort site and installed entrenchments. Shortly afterward, the fort was abandoned for good, and in 1923 it was brought back into public memory when its national historic importance was recognized by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.

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