Fort Oswego

Fort Oswego was an 18th-century trading post in the Great Lakes region in North America, which became the site of a battle between French and British forces in 1756 during the North American phase of the Seven Years' War known as the French and Indian War. The fort was established in 1727, on the orders of New York governor William Burnet, adjacent to a 1722 blockhouse that had originally been a way station for French traders. The log palisade fort established a British presence on the Great Lakes.

In 1756, the fort's garrison, consisting of British Army troops from the 50th and 51st Foot were besieged by a combined French and Native American force. The garrison, after suffering 150 casualties, surrendered. The French took a 1,700 soldiers and civilians prisoner, and destroyed the fort itself. The site is now included in the city of Oswego, New York. To the French, the fort was called Fort Chouaguen.

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Fort Oswego ranks #2,069 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #54 of the 77 mapped in United States. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.

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