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    Fort Frontenac was a French trading post and military fort built in July 1673 at the mouth of the Cataraqui River where the St. Lawrence River leaves Lake...
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    The Battle of Fort Frontenac took place on August 26–28, 1758 during the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War in the United States)...
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    first term, he supported the expansion of the fur trade, establishing Fort Frontenac (in what is now Kingston, Ontario) and came into conflict with the other...
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    Frontenac, Governor of New France, established Fort Cataraqui, later to be called Fort Frontenac, at a location known as Cataraqui in 1673. The fort served...
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    of Fort Oswego effectively interrupted the British presence on Lake Ontario and removed it as a threat to the nearby French-controlled Fort Frontenac. The...
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    fort was named Fort Cataraqui; it was later renamed Fort Frontenac by La Salle, in honor of his patron. The purpose of Fort Frontenac was to control the...
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    Salle built a vessel of about 10 tons burden at Fort Frontenac and that this vessel, named Frontenac, was the first real sailing vessel on the Great Lakes;...
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    The Fort Frontenac Library, located within the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, Fort Frontenac, Kingston, Ontario, is the main research...
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    established by both the British and French, such as Fort Frontenac in 1673, Fort Oswego in 1722, and Fort Rouillé in 1750. As the easternmost and nearest...
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    took part in the battles of Lake George, Oswego River, Carillon and Fort Frontenac. After the war, Bradstreet sent Schuyler to England to settle Bradstreet's...
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    capture Ticonderoga, Bradstreet immediately proposed his idea to attack Fort Frontenac, the key French supply base on Lake Ontario. Bradstreet's proposal met...
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    British troops under the command of Colonel John Bradstreet capture Fort Frontenac (near the site of what is now Kingston, Ontario) from the French. September...
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  • he returned to Fort Frontenac where he continued his work as an interpreter and liaison between the French and Iroquois. Fort Frontenac was attacked by...
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  • Quebec Frontenac County, Quebec Frontenac (Montreal Metro), Montreal Metro station Frontenac National Park (Parc national de Frontenac) Frontenac (provincial...
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    Mediterranean fleet of Jean-Baptiste de Valbelle. Quebec Montreal Fort Frontenac Fort Saint-Louis Famine Cove King Louis XIV appointed the 60 year old...
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    a dwelling where they chose. Joncaire and eight men dispatched from Fort Frontenac built a trading post, called Magasin Royal or Maison de la Paix (Royal...
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    governor-general of New France. The fort was built on the same model as the French Fort Frontenac on Lake Ontario. Washington, who was lieutenant colonel in the newly...
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    Ticonderoga campaign and the British capture of Fort Frontenac in 1758, before falling sick and being transferred to Fort Stanwix in order to recuperate. After...
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    the British would be able to move against the French bases at Fort Frontenac and Fort Niagara before the French forces in Montreal could come to their...
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    The Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, commonly referred to as the Château Frontenac (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto fʁɔ̃tnak]), is a historic hotel in Quebec...
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    he saw action with James Abercromby at Fort Ticonderoga and John Bradstreet at the Battle of Fort Frontenac. In 1759, he served under Johnson as second-in-command...
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    troops at Fort Frontenac for a potential assault on Oswego, a British fort across Lake Ontario. Montcalm's assemblage of troops at Fort Carillon distracted...
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    contributed to this strategic withdrawal. In August 1758 the French Fort Frontenac, at the head of Lake Ontario, was captured by British Gen. Bradstreet...
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  • Crawford County, including Pittsburg and Frontenac, along with sites in Paola and at the Hillsdale Learning Center. Fort Scott is the oldest community college...
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    expedition that successfully destroyed Fort Frontenac, including caches of supplies destined for New France's western forts and furs destined for Europe. Abercrombie...
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  • storehouse and stockade were used as a shifting point for ships coming from Fort Frontenac (modern day Kingston, Ontario); the supplies would then be further shipped...
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  • To USMC in 1948. Laid up in reserve. Scrapped at Baltimore in 1962. Fort Frontenac was built by Marine Industries Ltd. She was completed as Port Royal...
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  • Ontario, Fort Frontenac, in present-day Kingston, Ontario, many Iroquois from the nearby village of Ganneious resettled closer to the Fort. Relations...
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    26–28 - Battle of Fort Frontenac: Colonel John Bradstreet, with nearly 3,000 men, mostly colonial militia, takes and burns Fort Frontenac, (present-day Kingston)...
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    goods that followed the 1758 Siege of Louisbourg and the capture of Fort Frontenac on Lake Ontario that same year effectively ended the participation of...
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