Fort Henry

Fort Henry National Historic Site is located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on Point Henry, a strategic elevated point near the mouth of the Cataraqui River, where it flows into the St. Lawrence River at the east end of Lake Ontario. The fort and the point on which it was built were named after Henry Hamilton, former Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Quebec.

A fortification was constructed during the War of 1812 to protect the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard (the site of the present-day Royal Military College of Canada) on Point Frederick from a possible American attack during the war and to monitor maritime traffic on the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. A much larger fort replaced this construction in the 1830s to maintain protection of the naval dockyard and secure the southern entrance to the Rideau Canal. The fort was restored in the 1930s and is now a significant tourist attraction.

Text adapted from “Fort Henry National Historic Site” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort Henry ranks #2,029 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #13 of the 20 mapped in Canada. Founded 1812, it is older than 13% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 336 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Canada compares in the castle statistics.

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