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	Fort Frontenac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The intent of Fort Frontenac was to control the lucrative fur trade in the Great Lakes Basin to the west and the Canadian Shield to the north.
		This battle is often referred to as the Battle of Fort Frontenac.
		At this stage in the war, Fort Frontenac was not that significant to the French and the fort was left abandoned for the next twenty-five years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Frontenac (782 words)

	Frontenac's First Years in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The battle-royal between Frontenac and Perrot, the governor of Montreal, began in the autumn of 1673 and was waged actively throughout the greater part of 1674.
		Frontenac's counterblast was the dispatch of a lieutenant and three soldiers to arrest a retainer of Perrot named Carion, who had shown contempt of court by assisting the accused woodsmen to escape.
		Frontenac's position, of course, was that he only interfered with the clergy when they were encroaching upon the rights of the crown.
	www.canadiangenealogy.net /chronicles/frontenac_years_canada.htm (3564 words)

	Fort Frontenac
		Frontenac granted the fort and surrounding lands to a colleague, Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle, the famed explorer of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
		Fort Frontenac made use of its strategic location and was the key position from which supplies and reinforcements were sent to the other French installations on the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.
		Fort Henry was erected there and served as a naval base for British and Canadian forces in the War of 1812.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1194.html (1092 words)

	French and Indian War Locations and Descriptions - I LOVE NEW YORK - The Official New York State Tourism Website
		Fort St. Frederic, a stone fort completed in 1737, was the keystone of French occupation and control of the Champlain Valley for nearly 30 years.
		Fort William Henry was constructed in the aftermath of the Battle of Lake George in September of 1755.
		Fort Ontario was built in 1755 by the British, destroyed by the French, and rebuilt by the British in 1759.
	www.iloveny.com /travel_ideas/culture_fiw_map.asp (1322 words)

	Battles of New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Fort Herkimer was attacked and captured by French and Indians under Belletre in 1757.
		Fort Niagara and Fort Oswego were specially troublesome to the Mohawk Valley, and Fort Carleton, a new and strong work, built in '78 was well placed for sudden raids.
		This place (Fort Plain) was included in the Canajoharie settlement, and in 1780 felt severely the vengeance of the Tories and Indians, inflicted in return for the terrible desolation wrought by an army under Sullivan, the previous year, in the Indian country west of the white settlements.
	www.fortklock.com /Battles.htm (13346 words)

	Frontenac's Last Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Frontenac's province extended from Newfoundland to the Mississippi, from Onondaga to Hudson Bay.
		Frontenac's enemies were fond of saying that he used his position to make illicit profits from the fur trade.
		Frontenac was a greater man than most by virtue of robustness, fire, and a sincere aspiration to discharge his duty as a lieutenant of the king.
	www.canadiangenealogy.net /chronicles/frontenacs_days.htm (5356 words)

	Ontario Forts: page 3
		The British left in 1870, and the fort was manned by the Canadian Militia to 1891, as the Canadian School of Gunnery.
		The previous fort (a wooden blockhouse with a stone battery) was demolished in 1846, a portion of the stone battery is still visible.
		The fort was originally an earthworks fort, with a shore battery by the river, in 1813 - 1815.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/on3.html (1115 words)

	Marine Museum of the Great Lakes
		On reading that the machinery imported from England was "an excellent structure", some have concluded that the Frontenac was launched with her engines on board.[36] Obviously these writers have not examined the next issue of the Gazette where the steamboat was observed sailing down from Ernesttown to wait for her machinery.
		During the eight years that the Frontenac sailed for her original proprietors there was very little change in the personnel of the management committee.
		Certainly he was aware of the progress of the Frontenac and arrived back in Kingston in time to assist in her outfitting.
	www.marmuseum.ca /frontenac.html (8757 words)

	Battle of Fort Frontenac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Fort Frontenac took place from August 25 to August 27, 1758 near the end of the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States) between France and Britain.
		The location of the battle was Fort Frontenac, a French fort and trading post which is located in the modern-day city of Kingston, Ontario, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario where it meets the St.
		The army besieged the 110 French soldiers garrisoned inside the fort and won their surrender two days later, cutting one of the two major communication and supply lines between major eastern centres of Montreal and Quebec City and France's western territories (the northern route, along the Ottawa River, remained open throughout the war).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Frontenac (292 words)

	French and Indian War timeline, 1754-1758
		This fort is the farthest west English outpost before the wilderness of the northwest territory and the Ohio country.
		July 10, 1756 Col. Washington holds Council of War at Ft. Cumberland to discuss the chain of forts that is to be built from the Maryland-Virginia border to the Virginia-North Carolina border.
		It is hoped that this chain of forts will protect the settlers from the ravages of the French and their Indian allies.
	www.fortedwards.org /f-i-war.htm (1097 words)

	Fort Pitt
		Fort Pitt was the key fortification in the struggle for empire between Britain and France in Western Pennsylvania and the Northwest Territory.
		Located alongside the source of the Ohio River the fort insured control of the this important River, which is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers.
		Built in 1759 to 1761 by the British on the ashes of Fort Duquesne, Fort Pitt was the port from which the city of Pittsburgh emerged.
	www.fortpitt.org (2785 words)

	The Battle of Ticonderoga 1758
		Account: The French fort of Ticonderoga lay at the southern end of Lake Champlain, part of the long inland waterway that was the main route for a British land invasion of French Canada.
		Moncalm’s regular French battalions were positioned at various points along the river, the regiment of Berry at the fort, the main party at the Saw Mills further south and an advanced party at the southern end of the portage that bypassed the rapids.
		In August 1758 Bradstreet marched to Fort Frontenac, captured and destroyed the fort and the French flotilla on Lake Ontario.
	www.britishbattles.com /battle_of_Ticonderoga.htm (1354 words)

	Acadian Genealogy Homepage; Siege of Fort Beausejour
		On the seaward slope of one ridge was the English bastion of Fort Lawrence.
		During several years of uneasy peace, the garrisons of the two forts maintained cordial relations and the Acadian settlers pastured their cattle on the intervening land and sold produce at both forts.
		Fort Beauséjour was immediately renamed Fort Cumberland and manned by British troops, who continued to march to different parts of Beaubassin, burning villages and crops, and capturing settlers.
	www.acadian.org /fortbeau.html (3103 words)

	SULLIVANS EXPEDITION AND THE CAYUGAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		In the last three mentioned, her sons nobly fought, and bled and died for their country; but the sound of battle was not here, and the desolation of.
		This was a serious evil to the colonies and their feeble army; and a war which would carry terror and destruction to the heart of the foe was needful and proper.
		The statement is often made that a battle was fought on the shore of Cayuga Lake, between Salmon Creek and Ithaca; and in 1879 it was seriously proposed to celebrate its centennial.
	members.aol.com /mhecht7725/FRONTENAC/cayugas.html (5625 words)

	Kingston
		Kingston is the county seat of Frontenac County.
		The fort was captured and destroyed by the British in the Battle of Fort Frontenac near the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1758.
		Kingston is represented in the OHL by the Kingston Frontenacs, and in OPJHL by the Kingston Voyageurs.
	www.globalguide.org /index.html?id=200654 (2103 words)

	Name the battle quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The greatest tank battle of the Second World War, it would be the last time the famed Panzer Divisions would be used in a strategically offensive role.
		In this battle of the Wars of Independence, the British sallying out of Boston may have won the day and taken the field, but this was a Pyrrhic victory, with the soon not-to-be-anymore colonials inflicting 3 times the number of casualties they sustained themselves.
		This was the highwater mark of the Muslim incursions in France; after this battle they were soon forced back to the other side of the Pyrenees...
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=64631 (574 words)

	Fort Bedford located at Fort Bedford Ave. Bedford,Pa. 15522 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Fort Bedford was the only fort in America to use this system of obtaining water.
		The Fort was a stopping point for civilian and military travelers, and a few hunters and farmers settled the area.
		Fort Bedford and Ligonier were abandoned in early in 1766 as a cost-cutting measure.
	www.memberbbb.com /construction2.html (5647 words)

	Fort Rouille (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Fort Rouillé was built by the French on what are now the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition, next to Lake Ontario.
		Fort Rouillé was one of a chain of French forts from the St. Lawrence River to the Gulf of Mexico.
		The burnt ruins of Fort Rouillé were left as a memento for nearly a century of early Toronto history, until 1878, when they were cleared to make way for the grounds of the Toronto Exhibition.
	schools.tdsb.on.ca /jarvisci/toronto/rouille.htm (474 words)

	French and Indian War
		The decisive result of the War meant that it was the last of the French and Indian Wars and helped create conditions that led to the American Revolutionary War.
		The Battle of Fort Necessity, one of the opening engagements of the war, marked the first and only instance of George Washington surrendering in battle.
		Battle of the Plains of Abraham (September 13, 1759)
	french-and-indian-war.mindbit.com (557 words)

	HOW NEWSPAPERS COVERED THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR - The Early America Review, Spring 1997
		In September, for example, news reached Annapolis that Fort Frontenac, a major French outpost on the St. Lawrence at Lake Ontario, had fallen to General John Bradstreet.* The French in Canada were now cut off from Europe and from French troops in the Ohio Valley.
		With Louisbourg fallen and with the English in control of the major French forts on the Canadian border, newspapers began to suggest that the end of the fighting might be in sight.
		It exhibited all the traits of war news with letters from the front, first-hand battle descriptions, official releases in the form of terms of surrender, enemy atrocities, letters supporting the troops, pieces praising soldiers fallen in battle, and biting denunciations of the enemy.
	www.earlyamerica.com /review/spring97/newspapers.html (7764 words)

	The History of Kingston Ontario Canada First Capital
		During the War of 1812, Kingston was the base for the Lake Ontario division of the Great Lakes British naval fleet and engaged in a vigorous arms race with the American fleet based at Sackett's Harbor, New York for control of Lake Ontario.
		After the war, Britain built Fort Henry and a series of distinctive Martello towers to guard the entrance to the Rideau Canal (the fort is still standing and is a popular tourist destination).
		At the time of the census in May 2001, the resident population of the Kingston city authority had 146,838 people, compared with a resident population in the province of Ontario of 11,410,050 people.
	www.virtualkingston.ca /history.htm (717 words)

	French and Indian War
		Fort Frontenac is captured by the British, re-establishing the supply line to Fort Oswego.
		Forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point are abandoned and blown up by the French.
		Fort Detriot surrenders in mid September, ending the French and Indian War in America.
	web.umr.edu /~kdrowne/FrenchIndianWarpre.html (559 words)

	The French and Indian War, Part 3
		Over the next two years, the French lost frontier posts at Fort Niagara and then the Fortress of Louisbourg at the mouth of the St. Lawrence.
		The French forts at Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Niagara fell to their control.
		Once it was in the hands of the British, no other French forts that remained would be able to resist.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_35_550.html (362 words)

	The French and Indian War, 1755-1763
		Fort Necessity National Battlefield, by US National Park Service.
		Battle of Fort William Henry, by James P. Millard (America's Historic Lakes)
		Fort Ticonderoga in the Seven Years War (Fort Ticonderoga National Historic Landmark)
	www.regiments.org /wars/18thcent/56namer.htm (622 words)

	The Regimental Rogue - The Frontenac Times
		Come on, we all know that the battlefield tour was the defining drunken moment of every CSC since the College's inception..."
		"Paradigm Shifts; and the Unbridled Evolution of Process - The blank stares and quizzical looks that seems to occasionally grace the visages of some of our flock make it sadly apparent exactly what the rate of change has been here in the Fort.
		Even the DS, who spend only a few short years in their lofty positions, and who wish us to believe that they are much too busy to see past their own in-boxes, haven’t really noticed the ripples of “Huh?” that have appeared.
	members.tripod.com /RegimentalRogue/times/frontenac_times.htm (1218 words)

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