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Fort D'Anjou
Fort Machault (, ) was a fort built by the French in 1754 near the confluence of French Creek with the Allegheny River, in northwest Pennsylvania. (Present-day Franklin developed here later.) The fort helped the French control these waterways, part of what was known as the Venango Path from Lake Erie to the Ohio River. It was one of four forts designed to protect French access to the Ohio Country and connections between its northern and southern colonies. From north to south the forts were Fort Presque Isle (at Lake Erie), Fort Le Boeuf (at the south end of the portage leading to the head of French Creek), Fort Machault (at the confluence noted), and Fort Duquesne. In January 1759 the British launched an expedition to attack Fort Machault, but had to turn back after encountering resistance from French-Allied Native Americans. The fort was abandoned by the French in August 1759, and burned so that the British could not use it. It was replaced by the British in 1760 with Fort Venan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venango County, Pennsylvania
Venango County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 50,454. Its county seat is Franklin, Pennsylvania, Franklin. The county was created in 1800 and later organized in 1805. The county is part of the Northwest Pennsylvania region of the state. Venango County comprises the Oil City, Pennsylvania, Oil City, PA micropolitan statistical area. It is part of the Pittsburgh and Erie, Pennsylvania, Erie media markets (with Erie channels available to Comcast subscribers in the area). History Venango County was created on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny and Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Lycoming Counties. The name "Venango" is derived from the Native American name of the region, ''Onenge'', meaning ''Otter.'' This was corrupted in English as the ''Venango River''. The settlement at its mouth was likewise called ''Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Venango
Fort Venango was a small British fort built in 1760 near the present-day site of Franklin, Pennsylvania. It replaced Fort Machault, a French fort built at the confluence of French Creek and the Allegheny River. In August 1759, near the end of the French and Indian War, after the French surrender of Fort Niagara to the British, the French burned Fort Machault and retreated north. Fort Venango was built during summer 1760. It was attacked and destroyed in June 1763 during Pontiac's War. Background With the capture of Fort Duquesne by the British in November 1758, and the capture of Fort Niagara in July 1759, the French were forced to withdraw from Pennsylvania, abandoning and burning Fort Machault, Fort Le Boeuf, and Fort Presque Isle in August 1759. General Robert Monckton held a conference with Native American leaders and obtained their permission to build and maintain forts in western Pennsylvania. Construction According to the ''History of Venango County'' (1879): :"At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fur Trade
The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. Since the establishment of a world fur market in the early modern period, furs of boreal ecosystem, boreal, polar and cold temperate mammalian animals have been the most valued. Historically the trade stimulated the exploration and colonization of Siberia, northern North America, and the South Shetland Islands, South Shetland and South Sandwich Islands. Today the importance of the fur trade has diminished; it is based on pelts produced at fur farms and regulated fur-bearer trapping, but has become controversial. Animal rights organizations oppose the fur trade, citing that animals are brutally killed and sometimes skinned alive. Fur has been replaced in some clothing by synthetic fiber, synthetic imitations, for example, as in ruffs on hoods of parkas. Continental fur trade Russian fur trade Before the European colonization of the Americas, Russia was a major supplier of fur pelts to W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fraser (frontiersman)
John Fraser (often incorrectly spelled Frazier, 1721 – 16 April 1773) was a fur trader licensed by the Province of Pennsylvania for its western frontier, an interpreter with Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native Americans, a gunsmith, a guide and lieutenant in the British army, and a land speculator. He served in several British campaigns against the French and their allies in the vicinity of Fort Duquesne. Later in life he became a prominent landowner and was appointed justice of the peace, serving on the court until his death in 1773. In 18th century documents his surname is spelled three ways: Frazer, Frazier, and Fraser. Fraser (surname), Fraser is the common Scottish spelling of the name and is used by many of John Fraser's descendants. His wife is commonly known as Jane Frazier. Trading post at Venango Born in the Scottish Highlands, Fraser, age 14, arrived in Pennsylvania in 1735 and settled for a short time near the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Penns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Routledge
Routledge ( ) is a British multinational corporation, multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, academic journals, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioral science, behavioural science, education, law, and social science. The company publishes approximately 1,800 journals and 5,000 new books each year and their backlist encompasses over 140,000 titles. Routledge is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences. In 1998, Routledge became a subdivision and Imprint (trade name), imprint of its former rival, Taylor & Francis, Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), as a result of a £90-million acquisition deal from Cinven, a venture capital group which had purchased it two years previously for £25 million. Following the merger of Informa and T&F in 2004, Routledge became a publishing unit and major imprint within the Informa "academic publishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blockhouse
A blockhouse is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions. It is usually an isolated fort in the form of a single building, serving as a defensive strong point against any enemy that does not possess siege equipment or, in modern times, artillery, air force or cruise missiles. A fortification intended to resist these weapons is more likely to qualify as a fortress or a redoubt, or in modern times, be an underground bunker. However, a blockhouse may also refer to a room within a larger fortification, usually a battery or redoubt. Etymology The term '' blockhouse'' is of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Middle Dutch '' blokhus'' and 18th-century French '' blocus'' (blockade). In ancient Greece Blockhouses existed in ancient Greece, for example the one near Mycenae. Early blockhouses in England Early blockhouses were designed solely to protect a particular area by the use of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Marin De La Malgue
Paul Marin de la Malgue ( bap. 19 March 1692 – 29 October 1753) was the eldest son of Charles-Paul Marin de la Malgue and Catherine Niquet. He was born in Montreal and, as many of the prominent historical figures of his time, had a military career in the colonial regular troops. He was commissioned an ensign in May 1722, and in the same year he was given command of a post near Ashland, Wisconsin. His career was a military one with a significant amount of time spent south of New France in what is now part of the United States. His activities, which included the construction of Fort de la Rivière au Bœuf (''Fort Le Boeuf'') are significant in the attempts of the French to secure a sustainable foothold in the Ohio region. His military successes earned him the cross of Saint Louis but he died before learning of this honor. In 1730, he led the battle at the Siege of Little Butte des Mortes, in what is now Winnebago County, Wisconsin. He also fought in Nova Scotia in the Nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenape
The Lenape (, , ; ), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. The Lenape's historical territory included present-day northeastern Delaware, all of New Jersey, the eastern Pennsylvania regions of the Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania, and New York Bay, western Long Island, and the lower Hudson Valley in New York (state), New York state. Today communities are based in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. During the last decades of the 18th century, European settlers and the effects of the American Revolutionary War displaced most Lenape from their homelands and pushed them north and west. In the 1860s, under the Indian removal policy, the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government relocated most Lenape remaining in the Eastern United States to the Indian Territory and surrounding regions. The la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venango, Pennsylvania
Venango is a borough in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 210 at the 2020 census, down from 239 at the 2010 census, down from 288 in 2000. Geography Venango is located in north-central Crawford County at (41.772815, -80.110813). It is bordered by Venango Township to the north, west, and south, and by Cambridge Township to the east, across French Creek. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , all land. Venango is located on conjoined U.S. Route 6 and U.S. Route 19, with Cambridge Springs to the northeast and Meadville, the county seat, to the south. Interstate 79 passes to the west of Venango, but without any nearby exits. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 288 people, 104 households, and 79 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 112 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 96.53% White, 2.43% African American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Creek (Allegheny River Tributary)
French Creek (also known as the Venango River) is a tributary of the Allegheny River in northwestern Pennsylvania and western New York (state), New York in the United States. Name The stream has been sometimes called a river and sometimes a creek. It is thought that the stream's Seneca language, Seneca name, ''in nungash'', was modified over time to ''Venango''. The phrase ''in nungash'' may have derived from ''Onenga'', the Seneca word for American mink, mink, or it may have stemmed from ''Winingus'', the Delaware languages, Delaware (Lenape) word for the same animal. Interpretations of ''Venango'' have included "crooked", and the Seneca chief Cornplanter suggested that ''in nungash'' referred to a particular carving on a tree along the stream. ''Venango'' was likewise the name of a native settlement at the creek's mouth, later the site of Franklin, Pennsylvania. In the 18th century, the stream was an important link between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River. The French built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel-Ange Duquesne De Menneville
Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville, Marquis Duquesne (c. 1700 17 September 1778) was a French Governor General of New France. He was born in Toulon, France. Duquesne served from 1752 to 1755. Best known for his role in the French and Indian War, he established Fort Duquesne in 1755 at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela Rivers at what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was named after him. It was abandoned by French forces in 1758 with the arrival of the much more powerful British Forbes Expedition, which erected Fort Pitt in its place. He built a line of defensive fortifications to strengthen the French presence. He later returned to France. Battle of Cartagena In 1758, he led a French squadron out of Toulon, intended to relieve another French squadron which had been sailing to Louisbourg to provide relief to the defenders there, but had been forced into Cartagena in neutral Spain. However, Duquesne was attacked by a British force led by Henry Osborne a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunpowder Magazine
A gunpowder magazine is a magazine (building) designed to store the explosive gunpowder in wooden barrels for safety. Gunpowder, until superseded, was a universal explosive used in the military and for civil engineering: both applications required storage magazines. Most magazines were purely functional and tended to be in remote and secure locations. They are the successor to the earlier powder towers and powder houses. In Australia Historic magazines were at the following locations, among others: * Jack's Magazine, Saltwater River, Victoria * Goat Island, Sydney * Spectacle Island (Port Jackson) * North Arm Powder Magazine * Dry Creek explosives depot In Canada There are magazines at: * Citadel Hill (Fort George) * Citadel of Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec *Parc de l'Esplanade, Quebec City, Quebec *Cole Island, Esquimalt, British Columbia * Fort Lennox, Île-aux-Noix, Quebec * Fort William Historical Park, Thunder Bay, Ontario *Fort York, Toronto In Ireland Ballincollig, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
