Fort Pitt at Point State Park
601 Commonwealth Pl, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA
Pennsylvania, USA
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FORT
EST. 1754
FORTIFICATION
EST. 1754
1758
Washington, George
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Fort Pitt at Point State Park.
Fort Pitt no longer survives above ground except for its restored Block House, preserved nearby as a separate historic property. Point State Park contains archaeological outlines, markers, museum exhibits, landscaped grounds, and the reconstructed Fort Pitt Museum near Pittsburgh’s river confluence.
About Fort Pitt at Point State Park
In April 1754, the French began building Fort Duquesne on the site of the small British Fort Prince George at the beginning of the French and Indian War. The Braddock expedition, a 1755 British attempt to take Fort Duquesne, met with defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela at present-day Braddock, Pennsylvania. The French garrison later defeated an attacking British regiment in September 1758 at the Battle of Fort Duquesne. French Colonel de Lignery ordered Fort Duquesne destroyed and abandoned at the approach of General John Forbes' expedition in late November.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Fort Pitt at Point State Park
A number of factors contributed to this strategic withdrawal. In August 1758 the French Fort Frontenac, at the head of Lake Ontario, was captured by British Gen. Bradstreet, severing the supply lines to French fortifications across the frontier. Fort Duquesne was the southernmost of these. Short on materiel, French commander François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery was forced to dismiss elements under his command down the Ohio River to their bases in Illinois and Louisiana, and send others overland north to Ft. Presque Isle. Those Native who may have remained at Fort Duquesne were likely eager to return to their winter longhouses before the weather changed. Consequently, the fort was further undermanned, possibly left with as few as 200 regulars.
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