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[[Image:{{Infobox Military Structure|name=Fort George|image=FortGeorgePlan.jpg|caption=Plan of Fort George|location=[[Gage Hill]]|type=|built=|builder=General [[John Campbell]]|materials=Logs & sand, some bricks|size=80 yards square|used=1779-1781|demolished=|controlledby=Britain|armament=20 embrasured guns on parapet|garrison=1100 men between three Gage Hill forts|thumbcurrentcommander=|commanders=General [[John Campbell]]|rightoccupants=|Reconstruction battles=[[Siege of Fort GeorgePensacola]] ([[1781]])<br/>[[Battle of Pensacola (1814)]]|events=|status=|ownership=|visitors=|mapcode=}}'''Fort George''' was a [[British Pensacola|British]] fort at Pensacola, built in 1778{{date uncertain}} atop [[1778Gage Hill]] . The fort was the largest of a trio of fortifications on the hill, along with the [[Gage HillQueen's Redoubt]] and the [[Prince of Wales Redoubt]]. It was destroyed surrendered to Spanish forces under [[Bernardo de Gálvez]] in the [[1781]]'s [[Battle of Pensacola, 1781|Battle Siege of Pensacola]], but a portion of and renamed '''Fort San Miguel'''. The Spanish government did not occupy the fort and it was reconstructed, and the site is maintained as a park by the [[City of Pensacola]]allowed to deteriorate.

During the [[Civil War]], Union forces placed a small battery called [[Fort McClellan]] on the site, and several decades later, the [[Confederate]] memorial park [[Lee Square]] was established there. The site was added to the [[Wikipedia:National Register of Historic Places|National Register of Historic Places]] on [[July 8]], [[1974]]. In [[1976]], a nine-month archaeological excavation discovered remnants of both the British and Spanish forts, and a portion of the fort was reconstructed as a park maintained by the [[City of Pensacola]].

==Battle Construction==Richard Campbell, in his ''Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida'', describes the layout and build of Fort George:{{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>}} ==Siege of Pensacola==[[Image:Spanish troops at Pensacola.jpg|thumb|right|Spanish forces pour into the detonated [[Queen's Redoubt]].]]{{main|Siege of Pensacola}}On [[March 9]], [[1781]], [[Bernardo de Gálvez]] began an [[Battle Siege 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 at the [[Queen's Redoubt]] to explode. After Spanish forces overran occupied the redoubt, the remaining British contingent at Fort George surrendered the city to Gálvez. After taking Pensacola, the Spanish renamed the fort Fort San Miguel. ==Civil War==[[Image:GageHillAerial.jpg|thumb|right|The ruins of Forts George and took McClellan atop [[Gage Hill]] circa 1870s]]During the [[Civil War]], Union forces occupying Pensacolabuilt a series of defenses along the perimeter of the city. One of these, [[Fort McClellan]], was erected in [[1862]] on the Fort George site, but never saw battle. The site became known as Florida Square and was renamed [[Lee Square]] in [[1889]], becoming home to a [[Confederate]] memorial two years later.

[[Image:Fort George.jpg|thumb|right|Partial reconstruction of Fort George built in [[1976]]]]During the [[1976]] bicentennial, an archaeological team spent nine months excavating areas of [[Gage Hill]]. They unearthed elements of the British and Spanish forts, including a section of the moat, a powder magazine and several vaulted rooms believed to be latrines. Using the findings, a partial reconstruction of the fort was constructed lower on the hill. It is currently maintained by the [[City of Pensacola]]. In [[1981]], on the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle [[Siege of Pensacola]], a bust of [[Bernardo de Gálvez]], a gift from the Spanish government, was dedicated at the Fort George site. At the base of the sculpture is the Spanish phrase "Yo Solo" ("I alone").

==Other imagesReferences==<gallery>{{refbegin}}Image*Alejandro M. de Quesada. ''A History of Florida Forts''. The History Press, 2006.*James C. and Irene S. Coleman. ''Guardians on the Gulf:GageHillAerialPensacola Fortifications, 1698-1980''.jpg|The ruins of Fort George atop [[Gage Hill]] circa 1870sPensacola Historical Society, 1982.{{refend}}</gallery>{{reflist}}