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I don't think Fort Frontenac was ever "recaptured" or even captured by New Englanders.

Fort Frontenac was built by the French in 1673 at the place where the St. Lawrence River leaves Lake Ontario, in order to protect its fur trade and supply route. The city of Kingston, Ontario (Canada) now occupies the spot.

The Iroquois besieged the fort in 1688, and as a result the French abandoned it in 1689. They reoccupied it, however, in 1695.

in August 1758, during the war between France and England known as the French and Indian War in America, 3,000 British troops left Fort Oswego, across Lake Ontario in what is now New York State, and attacked Fort Frontenac. The small French garrison quickly surrendered.

After that, the fort was unoccupied until the Revolutionary War, when Loyalists fleeing the thirteen colonies settled in the area and the British rebuilt the fort for their protection. Fort Frontenac housed British troops during the War of 1812, but the fort was never attacked by U.S. forces.

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