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North of the mountain ridge known as Cape Horn, near the Connecticut River, are the remains of Fort Wentworth, built by the New Hampshire Militia in 1755 during the French and Indian War.
The Fort Hill section experienced significant gentrification when college students ( many from Northeastern University and Wentworth Institute of Technology ), artists, and young professionals moved into the area in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
On June 13, 1775, after his house was surrounded by a mob of armed men seeking to arrest a Loyalist militia officer, Wentworth and his family fled to Fort William and Mary, which was under the guns of the Scarborough.
His formal commission was revoked by Governor Wentworth after the raid on Fort William and Mary in December 1774.
** Fort Wentworth
When informed by his Stockbridge Indian scouts left to watch over the boats that the French have captured their boats and extra supplies, Rogers revises his plan and sends an injured officer back to Fort Crown Point requesting the British to send supplies to old Fort Wentworth, where the returning rangers will meet them.
Encountering signs of French activity, Rogers prefers to press on to Fort Wentworth a hundred miles distant, but the men vote to split up into four parties and fan out in search of game to eat.
The starving troops eventually make it safely to the planned meeting point, Fort Wentworth on the Connecticut River, where reinforcements and supplies were supposed to be waiting for them.
Roberts was hampered in writing Book 2 by the absence of two court-martial transcripts: the trial of Lieutenant Stevens ( who was the leader of the troops that took the food away from Fort Wentworth in Book 1 ) and the trial of Rogers himself, which was a key element in Book 2.

Fort and built
Here they built huts and a stockade named Fort Daer after Selkirk's barony in Scotland.
Acapulco ’ s most historic building is the San Diego Fort, located east of the main square and originally built in 1616 to protect the city from pirate attacks.
The Château Trompette ( Trumpet Castle ) and the Fort du Hâ, built by Charles VII of France, were the symbols of the new domination, which however deprived the city of its richness by halting the wine commerce with England.
As Dutch-British tensions increased in 1611 the Dutch built the larger and more strategic Fort Belgica above Fort Nassau.
Fort Belgica, one of many forts built by the Dutch East India Company, is one of the largest remaining European forts in Indonesia.
There are historic forts at both ends of Copacabana beach ; Fort Copacabana, built in 1914, is at the south end by Posto Seis and Fort Duque de Caxias, built in 1779, at the north end.
In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in the War of 1812, Battle of Fort Dearborn.
At the end of the War of 1812, Fort Gibson was built and the island remained a military post for nearly 80 years before it was selected to be a federal immigration station.
Fort San Felipe and Fort Santa Barbara were built.
Between 1705 and 1710 the French built Fort Royal at St. George's which is now know as Fort George.
The English quickly built other posts around the southern edge of Hudson Bay in Manitoba and present day Ontario and Quebec, such as at Fort Severn, built in 1689.
He also built Fort Miamis ( in present day Maumee, Ohio ) to supply Indians in the upcoming war.
By the early 1980s, the Bakkers had built Heritage USA in Fort Mill, South Carolina, ( south of Charlotte ), then the third most successful theme park in the US, and a satellite system to distribute their network 24 hours a day across the country.
In the winter of 1804 – 05, the party built Fort Mandan, near present-day Washburn, North Dakota.
Plan of Fort Madison, built in 1808 to establish U. S. control over the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase ; drawn 1810.
In 1808 two military forts with trading factories were built, Fort Osage along the Missouri River in western present-day Missouri and Fort Madison along the Upper Mississippi River in eastern present-day Iowa.

Fort and 1755
During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.
* 1755 – French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
He captured nearby Fort Beauséjour in 1755 and is also known for his roles as second-in-command at the Plains of Abraham, for capturing Martinique, as Governor of New York and also for his participation in the Great Upheaval.
In 1755, nearby Fort Beausejour was captured by English forces under the command of Lt. Col. Robert Monckton.
The 1755 British capture of Fort Beauséjour on the border separating Nova Scotia from Acadia was followed by its policy to deport the French inhabitants.
Braddock ( with George Washington as one of his aides ) led about 1, 500 army troops and provincial militia on an expedition in June 1755 to take Fort Duquesne.
Colonel Monckton, in the only true British success that year, captured Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, cutting the French fortress at Louisbourg off from land-based reinforcements.
In 1755, following the Battle of Lake George, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor of the French Province of Canada, sent his cousin Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to design and construct a fortification at this militarily important site, which the French called Fort Carillon.
Construction on the star-shaped fort, which Lotbinière based on designs of the renowned French military engineer Vauban, began in October 1755 and then proceeded slowly during the warmer-weather months of 1756 and 1757, using troops stationed at nearby Fort St. Frédéric and from Canada.
They constructed Fort Ashby in 1755, which is the last standing unit in the chain of forts built under the orders of George Washington.
General Edward Braddock's expeditionary march to Fort Duquesne crossed through this area in 1755 on the way to Fort Cumberland.
Fort Bridgman, Vernon, was burned in 1755, a casualty of the French and Indian War.
Later, as a Colonel in 1755, he was to accompany General Braddock on the old Indian Trail that ran through the valley on his way to Fort Cumberland.
The Braddock Expedition, particularly his crossing of the Monongahela River on July 9, 1755 at this place, led to the British general's own fatal wounding and a sound defeat of his troops who had been moving against the French at Fort Duquesne.
In 1755, Colonel George Washington gave orders to build a stockade and fort ( Fort Ashby ) on the eastern side of Patterson Creek.
St Clair accompanied Braddock on his ill-fated march on Fort Duquesne and his disastrous defeat on July 9, 1755.
In spring 1755, Washington returned to the area to prepare for General Edward Braddock's attack on Fort Duquesne ( commonly referred to as Braddock's March ).
The French, who had started construction on Fort Carillon in 1755, used it as a launching point for the successful siege of Fort William Henry in 1757.
The British defeated France in Acadia in the Battle of Fort Beausejour ( 1755 ) and then Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) ( which also administered Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) with the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ).
In 1755, General Edward Braddock led an expedition against the French Fort Duquesne, and although they were numerically superior to the French militia and their Indian allies, Braddock's army was routed and Braddock was killed.
In July 1755, Clive returned to India to act as deputy governor of Fort St. David at Cuddalore.
They speak of his 1755 efforts to help British Redcoats led by Braddock in their march to defeat the French at Fort Dusquesne ( in today's Pittsburgh ).

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