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− | + | [[Image:Fort George.jpg|thumb|right|Reconstruction of Fort George]] | |
− | + | '''Fort George''' was a [[British Pensacola|British]] fort at Pensacola, built in [[1778]] on [[Gage Hill]]. It was heavily damaged in [[1781]]'s [[Battle of Pensacola, 1781|Battle of Pensacola]], and eventually abandoned, but a portion of the fort was reconstructed, and the site is maintained as a park by the [[City of Pensacola]]. | |
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− | '''Fort George''' was a [[British Pensacola|British]] fort at Pensacola, built in | ||
− | + | The site was added to the [[Wikipedia:National Register of Historic Places|National Register of Historic Places]] on [[July 8]], [[1974]]. | |
==Construction== | ==Construction== | ||
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{{cquote|Fort George was a quadrangle with bastions at each comer. There were within the fort a powder magazine and barracks for the garrison, besides the chamber above mentioned. The woods north of it, for an eighth of a mile, and within a curve bending around it to the bay, were felled, in order to give play to its guns landward, whilst they could bear, upon an enemy in the bay by firing over the town. By a system of signals, intercommunication was kept up with Tartar Point and thence with Red Cliffs.|20px|20px|Richard Campbell, ''Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida''.<ref>Campbell, Richard L. [http://ia311206.us.archive.org/1/items/historicalsketch00camprich/historicalsketch00camprich.pdf "Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida"]. The Williams Publishing Co., Cleveland: 1892.</ref>}} | {{cquote|Fort George was a quadrangle with bastions at each comer. There were within the fort a powder magazine and barracks for the garrison, besides the chamber above mentioned. The woods north of it, for an eighth of a mile, and within a curve bending around it to the bay, were felled, in order to give play to its guns landward, whilst they could bear, upon an enemy in the bay by firing over the town. By a system of signals, intercommunication was kept up with Tartar Point and thence with Red Cliffs.|20px|20px|Richard Campbell, ''Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida''.<ref>Campbell, Richard L. [http://ia311206.us.archive.org/1/items/historicalsketch00camprich/historicalsketch00camprich.pdf "Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida"]. The Williams Publishing Co., Cleveland: 1892.</ref>}} | ||
− | == | + | ==Battle of Pensacola== |
− | + | On [[March 9]], [[1781]], [[Bernardo de Gálvez]] began an [[Battle of Pensacola, 1781|amphibious siege]] of the British forces at Pensacola. The siege culminated on [[May 8]], when Spanish artillery fire caused the British powder magazine to explode. Spanish forces overran the remaining British contingent at Fort George and took Pensacola. | |
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− | On [[March 9]], [[1781]], [[Bernardo de Gálvez]] began an [[ | ||
− | After taking Pensacola, the Spanish renamed the fort Fort San Miguel | + | After taking Pensacola, the Spanish renamed the fort as '''Fort San Miguel'''. |
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==Reconstruction== | ==Reconstruction== | ||
− | [[ | + | In [[1981]], on the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Pensacola, a bust of Bernardo de Gálvez, a gift from the Spanish government, was dedicated at the Fort George site. |
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− | + | ==Other images== | |
+ | <gallery> | ||
+ | Image:GageHillAerial.jpg|The ruins of Fort George atop [[Gage Hill]] circa 1870s | ||
+ | </gallery> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
[[Category:Forts]] [[Category:City of Pensacola parks]] [[Category:National Register of Historic Places]] | [[Category:Forts]] [[Category:City of Pensacola parks]] [[Category:National Register of Historic Places]] |