During the French and Indian War, the Province of Pennsylvania built a defensive chain of forts from the New Jersey border, southwest to the Maryland border, in response to numerous attacks on civilia
Benjamin Franklin supervising the construction of the first forts in Pennsylvania, early 1756.
Reconstructed stockade and blockhouse similar to the design used for most Pennsylvania forts.
Model of Fort Augusta, the largest and most elaborate fort in Pennsylvania at the time, with a curtain wall, a glacis, bastions at each corner, parapets, and a dry defensive ditch with a drawbridge.
Reconstructed officer's quarters at Fort Ligonier.
Fort Franklin was a stockaded fort constructed at the order of Benjamin Franklin in 1756, in response to a series of raids by Native American war parties on Pennsylvania settlements in late 1755, in p
Pennsylvania forts in the French and Indian War
…by French-allied Native Americans. He supervised the construction of Fort Hamilton and Fort Depuy in December 1755 and Fort Norris, Fort Allen and Fort Franklin in early 1756. However, Franklin felt that the responsibility for building forts should be given to someone with more military training, and offered a…
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