Fort Delgrès

Fort Delgrès (or Fort Louis Delgrès; formerly Fort Saint-Charles) is a French fort overlooking the town of Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe. It was a key site in the Franco-British struggle in the Caribbean, and later in the resistance of the Guadeloupeans led by the Louis Delgrès, who opposed the re-establishment of slavery entrusted to Antoine Richepanse by Napoleon I. The fort was classified as an official French historical monument by decree in 1977.

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Fort Delgrès ranks #4,544 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #328 of the 351 mapped in France. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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