They built Fort Necessity, a square log enclosure, near present-day Uniontown in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Fort Duquesne was the Fort that the French built on the site of the former British Fort Prince George in present day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Fort Duquesne.
Fort Prince George in present day Pittsburgh was the incomplete British fortification at the confluence of the Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. It became the French Fort Duquesne.
Fort Duquesne was built by the French in the 1750s during the French and Indian War. It was constructed at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, where they meet to form the Ohio River, in present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The fort was named after Marquis Michel de Duquesne, the Governor-General of New France. It served as a strategic military outpost until it was captured by British forces in 1758, who subsequently renamed it Fort Pitt.
they wanted to build a fort where the Allegheny and Monongahela river meet which is known as the Ohio river.
This strategic was the gateway to the west
This strategic was the gateway to the west
To take over the French, who had already built Fort Duquesne in the same location. Fort Pitt was much larger and eventually Duquesne was destroyed.
To take over the French, who had already built Fort Duquesne in the same location. Fort Pitt was much larger and eventually Duquesne was destroyed.
Build a fence
They created Hong Kong. Before the British started to build Hong Kong it was a barren island.
detterence
Deterrence