[Plan of the Forts Ontario and Oswego, with part of the River Onondago and Lake Ontario]
Antique copperplate map, 1757
Title of map: '[Plan of the Forts Ontario and Oswego, with part of the River Onondago and Lake Ontario]'
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 forces in 1756 during the French and Indian War. The fort was established in 1727 on the orders of New York governor William Burnet. The log palisade fort established a British presence on the Great Lakes. In 1756 the fort's garrison of British soldiers were easily defeated by a combined French and Native American force. More than one hundred British soldiers were killed, many of them after the fort had been formally surrendered. The French took a further 1,500 British prisoners, and destroyed the fort itself. Fort Ontario is located on the east side of the Oswego River on high ground overlooking Lake Ontario. It was one of several forts erected by the British to protect the area around the east end of Lake Ontario. The original Fort Ontario was erected in 1755, during the French and Indian War in order to bolster defenses already in place at Fort Oswego on the opposite side of the river. At that time its name was the "Fort of the Six Nations," but the fort was destroyed by French forces during the Battle of Fort Oswego in 1756 and rebuilt by British forces in 1759.
DATE PRINTED: 1757
IMAGE SIZE: Approx 18.5 x 11.0cm, 7.25 x 4.25 inches (Small)
ARTIST/CARTOGRAPHER/ENGRAVER: Unattributed
PROVENANCE: "Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle", by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. London: Printed for D. Henry & R. Cave, at St. John's Gate
TYPE: Antique copperplate map
VERSO: There is text printed on the reverse side
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