Although the British evacuated the fort on June 7, Americans did not formally occupy it until June 9. Once the Americans were in the fort they set about immediately working on new fieldworks, refortifying bastions and extending the northwest bastion. The fort now served as the U.S. Army of the Center's headquarters.
Although American forces used some parts of the fort's old fieldwork, the fort was made substantially smaller, into a more defensible pentagonal-shaped fortification. In addition to this, they also repaired the palisades and added entrenchments near the northeast bastion and towards the river.
They did not, however, build any permanent structures within the fort, instead garrisoning small outlyng posts around the fort.
The American intention was to use the fort as a staging area for further attacks inthe Niagara peninsula.
--Brock-Perry
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