Historic Fort George-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

Since I gave been writing a lot about two women who, performed heroic jobs at two of the Battles of Fort George, I decided I might as well write about the fort in more detail.

Was a military fortification  in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.  It was  used by the British Army, the Canadian militia and for a brief period of time, United States forces.

The fort was mostly destroyed during the War of 1812.

The site has been a National Historic Site of Canada since 1921 and features a reconstruction of the fort.

The British established Fort George in the 1790s to replace Fort Niagara.  Many of its structures  were demolished in May 1813 duing the Battle of Fort George.  After the battle, American forces occupied the fort briefly for seven months before withdrawing in December 1813.

Althouggh the British regained the fort a short time later, little effort was made to reconstruct it after they captured the American Fort Niagara across the river the following week.

--Brock-Perry