Quebec History Marianopolis College


Date Published:
July 2005

L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

 

Fort Sandusky

 

Fort Sandusky, a French post built about 1750 at the head of Sandusky bay, in lake Erie, at the outlet of the Sandusky river, a few miles west of the present city of Sandusky, Ohio. It was surrendered to the British forces at the cession of Canada ; and on May 16, 1763, the fort was captured by Pontiac, and the garrison murdered.

Source  : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 376. 

 

 
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