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    Fort Oswego was an 18th-century trading post in the Great Lakes region in North America, which became the site of a battle between French and British...
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    The Battle of Fort Oswego was one in a series of early French victories in the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War won in spite of New France's...
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    Oswego (/ɒsˈwiːɡoʊ/) is a city in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 16,921 at the 2020 census. Oswego is situated at the mouth...
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    Fort Ontario is an American historic bastion fort situated by the City of Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It is owned by the state of New York and operated...
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    Frontenac for a potential assault on Oswego, a British fort across Lake Ontario. Montcalm's assemblage of troops at Fort Carillon distracted the attention...
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    The Battle of Fort Ontario was a partially successful British raid on Fort Ontario and the village of Oswego, New York on May 6, 1814 during the War of...
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  • Oregon In New York: Oswego, New York, a city in Oswego County State University of New York at Oswego, a public university Fort Oswego, which occupied the...
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    success of his 1756 assault on Fort Oswego, Montcalm had been seeking an opportunity to deal with the British position at Fort William Henry to provide the...
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    the site of Fort Oswego (captured and burned by the French in 1756), and then cross the lake to assault Frontenac. The British considered Fort Frontenac...
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  • set the powder magazines on fire. The fort was burned to the ground. The establishment of Fort Oswego (modern Oswego, New York) in the 1720s on the south...
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    House in Lower Manhattan. Second fort (Oswego, NY) A second Fort George was built by the British in 1755 at Oswego, New York, but it was destroyed by...
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    also be disrupted. Fort Frontenac was also regarded as a threat to Fort Oswego, which was built by the British across the lake from Fort Frontenac in 1722...
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    weak condition of Fort Oswego were largely ignored in midst of their ongoing power struggle. The French captured and burned Oswego later the same year...
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  • State University of New York at Oswego (SUNY Oswego or Oswego State) is a public university in Oswego, New York. It has a total student population of...
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  • launched at Oswego on the Great Lakes in 1756; the French seized her and seven other vessels of the Canadian Great Lakes Squadron when Fort Oswego surrendered...
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  • armed forces deduced that a British raiding force was going to attack Fort Oswego. The British raiders would number 500 soldiers, 400 marines, 200 sailors...
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    commander of all English forces in North America Prompted by the loss of Fort Oswego during the French and Indian War, he sent one thousand regulars to strategically...
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    up the Saint Lawrence River to Fort Oswego, and from there to Fort Stanwix (the site of modern Rome, New York). The fort was more strongly defended than...
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    Carrying-Place Trail from proceeding to the British fort in Oswego, New York. Known as Fort Toronto (or Fort Portneuf), the trading post saw immediate success...
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    attack on Fort Oswego in his absence when he planned to attack Fort Niagara. As a response, he left garrisons at Oswego, Fort Bull, and Fort Williams,...
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  • built two small stockade forts on the Oneida Carry to safeguard supply lines to Oswego. These small forts became Fort Bull and Fort Williams. Two years into...
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    instructions to bring as many Iroquois warriors as he could to Fort Oswego for an attack on Fort Stanwix as a part of the Saratoga Campaign. Butler persuaded...
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  • 1800 War of 1812 Battle of York Battle of Fort George Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor Battle of Fort Oswego Battle of Mackinac Island Battle of New Orleans...
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  • Fort Bowyer was a short-lived earthen and stockade fortification that the United States Army erected in 1813 on Mobile Point, near the mouth of Mobile...
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    extended from the Hudson River valley and Fort Edward and Fort George, along the Mohawk River Valley to Fort Oswego in the northwest. This was to be the axis...
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    the army arrived at Fort Oswego, where they were joined by Johnson and about 600 Iroquois. Leaving men behind to garrison Oswego Prideaux departed on...
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  • Europe. Battle of Fort Oswego. 1757 – Siege of Fort William Henry. 1758 – Siege of Louisbourg; Battle of Fort Frontenac; Battle of Fort Duquesne. The first...
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    resistance of Baltimore's Fort McHenry during bombardment by the Royal Navy inspired Francis Scott Key to compose the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", which later...
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  • Michael Keane, per historical anecdote, a blind Irish harp player at Fort Oswego Michael Keen (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    War beginning in 1754. Shirley led a military expedition to reinforce Fort Oswego in 1755, and became Commander-in-Chief, North America upon the death...
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