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.

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Fort Henryは、アトラスの城の知名度ランキングで世界2,029位（全5,479件中）、カナダの20件では13位にランクされています。1812年に創建され、アトラスの年代判明済みの城の13%より古い城です（19世紀に創建されたアトラス収録の336件のひとつ）。カナダが他とどう比べられるかは、城の統計をご覧ください。

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