United States · 18th century
Fort Oswego ranks #3,237 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #64 of the 110 mapped in United States. Founded 1727, it is older than 19% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 685 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,501 times in the last 60 days, more than 62% of the atlas. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
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.
Text adapted from “Fort Oswego” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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