Fort Detroit

Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit or Fort Detroit (1701–1796) was a French and later British fortification established in 1701 on the north side of the Detroit River by Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac. A settlement based on the fur trade, farming and missionary work slowly developed in the area. The fort was located in what is now downtown Detroit, northeast of the intersection of Washington Boulevard and West Jefferson Avenue.

Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit was attacked by the Meskwaki during the Fox Wars, and was the target of an aborted attack by English-aligned Wyandot during King George's War. During the French and Indian War, Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit surrendered to the British on November 29, 1760 after the capture of Montreal. It was besieged by Indigenous forces during Pontiac's War in 1763. The British controlled the area throughout the American Revolutionary War, but replaced the French fort with the newly constructed Fort Lernoult in 1779. While the territory on what is now the Michigan side of the Detroit River was ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1783, control of the fort was not transferred until 1796, after the Jay Treaty.

Tekst overgenomen uit “Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit” op de Engelstalige Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort Detroit staat op plaats 829 van 5.793 in de bekendheidsranglijst van deze atlas en op plaats 17 van de 98 die de atlas in de Verenigde Staten in kaart brengt. Gebouwd in 1701, en daarmee ouder dan 25% van de gedateerde bouwwerken in de atlas — een van de 360 bouwwerken in de atlas die uit de 18e eeuw stammen. Zie hoe dat zich verhoudt in de kastelenstatistiek.

Bekijk op de interactieve kastelenkaart →

Lees het volledige verhaal op Wikipedia ↗