Fort Saint Frederic - Crown Point New York - Bizarre !! (1 Viewer)

[Fraxinus]

Besides timber forts, the French constructed forts using stone before and during the FIW. Probably Fort Saint Frederic is the most bizarre design that included a huge octagonal citadel that had 4 stories of cannon.

As with Ticonderoga, the French blew-up the fort while retreating north before Amherst's army. It was not in good repair when the French destroyed it. The British rebuilt on the site and renamed it Crown Point (New York).

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=11415

Especially see Photo 5. Model of Fort Saint Frederic on this page. Good photo on magnification. The openings in the tower on each level are for cannon.

This looks like a Mike project to me!!! Just kidding, Mike!!!

 

[mikemiller1955]

Ken...hahahahaha

you're the fort builder...not me...

magnified...it's pretty amazing...absolutely huge and castle like...

a great defense and very civilian life oriented...

I even saw a church...

totally different from the British forts...

the small "moat" around the Citadel entrance...did water go in it or was it just dugout earth...

very little wood in this structure...just the barracks and storehouse...

thank you Ken...nice find...now get to work on it in 60mm...this one looks lie 28 or 40 to me...

 

[Combat]

It's very, very difficult to get a sense of what some of these historical sites would have looked like at the time. I was in Gettysburg today and ventured up to Little Round Top. The first time I have been up there when absolutely no one was there. Looking at the photos taken just days after the battle from the exact location I was standing it was impossible to recognize much. And that's a hundred years after the FIW. The location of trees, rocks, the difference in foliage from summer to winter make significant differences. Things you can see in January would not be visible in July. Why didn't the Rebs just go around the backside of the hill instead of charging up it? It's very difficult to visualize what it must have been like. Reading one of J. Fenimore Cooper's books recently and it notes that one of the fears at the time was a dead tree falling on you. That's not something that would occur to most of us today.