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Fort de la Presqu'ile was the first of four French forts built by Marin and Boishebert in northwestern Pennsylvania to protect their claim to the Ohio Valley. Built in 1753, the fort overlooking the bay was 120 feet square, with a squared log wall 12 to 15 feet high and two entrances, the south entrance leading up Parade Street to Fort LeBoeuf at Waterford and the north to the lake about 300 yards away. It served as the supply depot for the other three forts ending at Fort Duquesne at Pittsburgh. The fort was never attacked and was abandoned by the French in 1759 after the loss of Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War.
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