Monday, January 11, 2010

Protecting the Bay

Fort Frederick was built by the British in 1799 to protect Algoa Bay from possible French invasion. Ironically the fort never got to fire a shot in anger in all the time it was in commission.

2 comments:

  1. That seems the case of many forts. There are many around the Puget Sound area that existed but never saw any action ... thankfully.

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