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Fort au Fer was a British fort, established in 1775 on Lake Champlain, New York approximately 1 mile south of Rouses Point. It was occupied by General John Burgoyne during his Saratoga campaign in 1777, and remained in British hands until 1796, [1] following the 1794 Jay Treaty .
Lake Champlain in Burlington Harbor during sunset on May 27, 2012. Lake Champlain is in the Lake Champlain Valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York, drained northward by the 106 mi-long (171 km) Richelieu River into the St. Lawrence River at Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, northeast and downstream of Montreal.
Forts in New York state, United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to Forts in New York (state) . This category directly includes all forts in the current New York state area, regardless when they were built or by which country--except for Forts in New York City which are only in its own sub-category.
The sign for Rouses Point on U.S. 11. Rouses Point, located at (44.987531, -73.367634), is the northernmost village in New York in terms of the center of population. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.4 km 2), of which 1.8 square miles (4.6 km 2) is land and 0.73 square miles (1.9 km 2), or 29.18%, is water.
Fort Washington (Massachusetts) Fort Watauga. Fort Wentworth. Fort Wetherill. Fort William and Mary. Fort Wolcott. Categories: 18th-century fortifications. American Revolutionary War sites.
September 21 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Paoli. September 22 – Wells' Regiment of Militia gets called up to Shelburne, Massachusetts. September 26 – American Revolutionary War: British troops occupy Philadelphia. September 27. Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States for one day.
Fort Amsterdam. After 165 years of service, the aging fort was leveled and replaced with the Government House. Fort Amsterdam was a fortification on the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers. The fort and the island were the center of trade and the administrative headquarters for the Dutch and then ...
June 23, 1980. Johnson Hall State Historic Site was the home of Sir William Johnson (1715–1774) an Irish pioneer who became the influential British Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Province of New York, known for his strong relationship especially with the Mohawk and other Iroquois League nations. Johnson Hall is located at Hall Avenue ...