A blockhouse, one of twelve built by British along the east bank
item
- Title
- A blockhouse, one of twelve built by British along the east bank
- Date
- ca 1975
- Creator
- Breton, Carol
- Extent
- 36.36 x 25.76 cm
- Is Part Of
- Watercolour Collection
- Description
- Location is east bank of the Niagara River in the United States
- en-CA Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Government of Canada Local Initiatives Grant AK 2403-9 1974 - 1975 ; research by George Seibel ; Captain Montresor's familiarity with the Niagara Portage and his realization that its lack of blockhouse protection had encouraged the Seneca attack on a wagon train at Devil's Hole, initiated an elaborate program of fortification. The portage wa surveyed nd locations fixed for five "redoubts with stockades". These were completed and garrisoned by July 1st, 1764. Subsequent accounts of these redoubts or blockhouses, as they were known, places the number as highj as 12 having been built , excerpted from Thundergate : the forts of Niagara by Robert West Howard ;
- Type
- Still Image
- Medium
- Watercolour
- Subject
- Fortifications - General
- Niagara River - Lower
- Location
- Canada
- United States
- Identifier
- http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=102806
- locator
- WC 22
- Publisher
- Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation
- Date Created
- 2005-02-23
- Date Modified
- 2005-02-23
