Fort George

and

The Battle of Fort George

There are two plaques about this fort
in The Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Both can be seen on this page.

Photos by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted December, 2009

Photo Source - Wikimedia Commons

Plaque Location

The Region of Niagara
The Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake
Near the visitor centre at Fort George National Historic Site

Coordinates: N 43 15.116 W 79 03.787

Plaque Text

Constructed by order of Lieutenant Governor Simcoe 1796-99, Fort George served as the headquarters for Major-General Brock in 1812. In May, 1813, it was bombarded and captured by the Americans who constructed fortifications of their own on the site. These in turn were retaken by the British in December, 1813. In 1815 Fort George was described as "tumbling into ruins" and ordered abandoned. The present works are a reconstruction done in 1937-40, and represent the fort as it was in 1799-1813. Only the magazine of the original fort remains.

Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted December, 2009

Plaque Location

The Region of Niagara
The Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake
At the north end of Queen Street
just past Newark Street on the east side

Coordinates: N 43 15.722 W 79 05.071

Plaque Text

On May 25, 1813, the American fleet and the batteries at Fort Niagara across the river began a devastating two-day bombardment of Fort George. On the 27th a large American force was landed and after a brief engagement in which his outnumbered garrison sustained heavy casualties, Brigadier-General John Vincent made an orderly withdrawal towards Burlington. The capture of Fort George left the Americans in control of the Niagara frontier, but Vincent's troops a week later won a decisive victory at Stoney Creek, preventing the Americans from gaining the whole peninsula.

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