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Fort Presque Isle

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Fort Presque Isle
Fort Presque Isle. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Fort Presque Isle (also Fort de la Presqu'île) was a fort built by French soldiers in summer 1753 along Presque Isle Bay in present-day Erie, Pennsylvania, to protect the northern terminus of the Venango Path. It was the first of the French posts built in the Ohio Country, and was part of a line that included Fort Le Boeuf, Fort Machault, and Fort Duquesne.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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