Fort St. Frédéric

Fort St. Frédéric was a French fort built on Lake Champlain (on the border between modern New York State and Vermont in the United States) to secure the region.

Construction started in 1734. The fort, when completed, gave the French control of the New France/Vermont border region in the Lake Champlain Valley and was the only permanent fort in the area until the building of Fort Carillon (later captured by the British and renamed Fort Ticonderoga) more than 20 years later. The fort was constructed at a turn in the lake at its narrowest point, the cannons of Fort St. Frédéric and later Fort Crown Point were capable of cutting off all travel north and south on the lake.

When the British forces moved north during the French and Indian War the retreating French destroyed Fort St. Frédéric. The British built Fort Crown Point near the ruins of the old French fort. The remains of both forts are now a state park located in New York.

See also

• Jeffery Amherst
• Fort William Henry

External link

• Offical State park web site