This is the site of the former Fort Oswego, a "stone house of strength," built by the British in 1727 to protect their fur-trading interests on the Great Lakes. Strengthened by the addition of outer walls and blockhouses around 1742, Fort Oswego was nonetheless vulnerable to artillery fire from higher elevations.
In 1755-56 the British built Fort George on the hill west of Fort Oswego and Fort Ontario on the bluff across the harbor. Lightly armed, poorly supplied, and surrounded by hostile Indians, all three forts and their garrisons of around 1700 British and provincial troops, tradesmen, women, and children fell to a larger French army with Canadian and Indian Allies under Major General Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, in August 1756.
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