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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 and the county seat of Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 16,921 at the 2020 census. Oswego...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    be disrupted. Fort Frontenac was also regarded as a threat to Fort Oswego, which had been built by the British across the lake from Fort Frontenac in 1722...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • to fight in the War of 1812, including the Battle of Fort Oswego (1814) and at the Siege of Fort Erie. The unit was retired at the end of the war and...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    communication between Lake George and Fort Oswego. The regiment participated in many battles: that of Fort Oswego in August 1756 and that of William Henry...
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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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  • 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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    victory at Fort Oswego and lost seven men in the process. In August 1757, many soldiers of the Regiment participated in the victory at Fort William Henry...
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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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    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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    supplies for Fort Oswego, would be the scene of the first battle, known to history, to take place on the Oneida Carry. The Battle of Fort Bull lasted only...
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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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    been commissioned at Oswego on 5 May 1814 under Captain William Mulcaster. The ship took part in the British attack on Fort Oswego and blockade of Sackett's...
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    Rated as a fourth-rate frigate, Prince Regent took part in the Raid on Fort Oswego in 1814. Following the War of 1812 the frigate was renamed HMS Kingston...
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