FORT DUQUESNE

dəkānˈ, doo–, at the junction of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, on the site of Pittsburgh, SW Pa. Because of its strategic location, it was a major objective in the last of the French and Indian Wars. The fort was begun by a group of Virginians in 1754 at the insistence of Gov. Robert Dinwiddie. The French drove the Virginians away on Apr. 17, 1754, and completed the fort; they named it after the Marquis de Duquesne, governor-general of New France. George Washington's Virginia militia had failed to reach the fort before the arrival of the French (see Fort Necessity). Fort Duquesne was also the goal of an unsuccessful expedition under English Gen. Edward Braddock in 1755. On Nov. 24, 1758, the French abandoned their position without a fight to advancing British troops led by Gen. John Forbes and retreated north after burning Fort Duquesne. The English rebuilt it and renamed it Fort Pitt, around which Pittsburgh grew.

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Warpaths: Invasions of North America
Book by Ian K. Steele; Oxford University Press, 1994
Subjects: Ethnohistory--United States, Europe--Colonies--America--Administration, Indians Of North America--First Contact With Europeans, Indians Of North America--History--Sources, Indians Of North America--Wars--1600-1750
...English Atlantic, 1675-1740 Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the "Massacre" WARPATHS...80 7. Dutch Fort Orange Albany and the Five Nations, 1624-1684...2. Susquehannock Fort on the Potomac, ca. 1675 54...
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Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America
Book by Francis Jennings; W. W. Norton, 1988
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Wars--1750-1815, United States--History--French And Indian War, 1755-1763
...Indian hardships Materials for Fort Duquesne Washingtons first campaign Chapter...Chronology The fall of Fort Duquesne Pittsburgh founded Pitts burgh...who succeeded in taking French Fort Duquesne did so with the indispensable...
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The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 1607-1755
Book by William R. Nester; Praeger Publishers, 2000
Subjects: France--Relations--Great Britain, Great Britain--Relations--France, Indians Of North America--Government Relations--To 1789, United States--History--French And Indian War, 1755-1763, United States--History--French And Indian War, 1755-1763--Causes
...ignominiously surrendered his force at Fort Necessity and unwittingly signed a surrender...Florida where he erected a cross, built a fort, and claimed that land for France. Within...French on the St. Johns River to establish Fort Caroline. Ribault reinforced it the following...
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The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 1607-1755
Book by William R. Nester; Praeger, 2000
Subjects: France--Relations--Great Britain, Great Britain--Relations--France, Indians Of North America--Government Relations--To 1789, United States--History--French And Indian War, 1755-1763, United States--History--French And Indian War, 1755-1763--Causes
...the Ohio Company to build a fort at the forks but also ceded...72 On July 1, 1752, Ange Duquesne de Menneville, Marquis Duquesne...rest of 1752 and into 1753, Duquesne assembled a 2,200-man expedition at Fort Niagara commanded by Captain...
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Life and Times of Washington - Vol. 1
Book by Edward C. B. A. Towne, John Frederick Schroeder, Benson John Lossing; M. M. Belcher Publishing Co., 1903
Subjects: Washington, George--1732-1799
...III. Washingtons Capitulation of Fort Necessity 182...the Susquehannocks, at the Piscataway fort, on account of some murdering begun by...during a parley, and then invested the fort. After repulsing several sorties, they...
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journal articles on: Fort Duquesne  - 80 results

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Calendar
Journal article; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006
...Gateway Center, 3rd Floor, 420 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1435...Gateway Center, 3rd Floor, 420 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15222...Gateway Center, 3rd Floor, 420 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1435...
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America's Frontier Wars: Lessons for Asymmetric Conflicts
Journal article by Ike Skelton; Military Review, 2008
Subjects: Conflicts, Military history, Persian Gulf War
...smaller French and Indian force. On his way to capture Fort Duquesne. Pennsylvania. Braddock had split his force into two...noted the irony that his preparations for the march to Fort Duquesne were precise. He attended to every minute detail except...
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Pontiac: Local Warrior or Pan-Indian Leader?
Journal article by Richard Middleton; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 32, 2006
Subjects: British colonialism--Social aspects, Indigenous people's land claims, Leadership--Social aspects, Menominees--Crimes against, Menominees--Political activity, Native Americans--Crimes against, Native Americans--Political activity, Native people's land claims
...Two years later Pontiac was at Fort Duquesne where he made a speech urging...Indian leader. But these visits to Fort Duquesne were important in other respects...Speech of Pontaigue, Ottawa chief, Fort Duquesne (undated, but placed among the...
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Calendar
Journal article; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006
...Gateway Center, 3rd Floor, 420 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1435...Gateway Center, 3rd Floor, 420 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1435...Gateway Center, 3rd Floor, 420 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1435...
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Calendar
Journal article; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006
Subjects: Cancer research--Technology application, Cancer--Research, Cancer--Technology application, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory--Technology application, Oncology, Experimental--Technology application, Public health--Technology application
...Gateway Center, 3rd Floor, 420 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburg, PA 15232...Gateway Center, 3rd Floor, 420 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1435...Gateway Center, 3rd Floor, 420 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1435...
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Resource Finder
Magazine article; Occupational Hazards, Vol. 67, January 2005
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Refuse and refuse disposal--Directories, Waste management--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Waste management--Directories
...Suite 250, Fairfax, VA 22031; (703) 849-8888; www.aiha.org Air Waste Management Association 1 Gateway Center, 420 Fort Duquesne Blvd., 3rd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1435; (412) 232-3444; www.awma.org American Association of Occupational Health...
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Father of Our Country: George Washington Sacrificed for His Country's Well-Being and Never Sought Personal Gain. with His Leadership and Moral Character, He Embodied the True Spirit of America
Magazine article by Thomas R. Eddlem; The New American, Vol. 19, April 7, 2003
Subjects: United States--History, United States--Personalities, Washington, George--History
...Braddock, neared battle at the French Fort Duquesne. He rode on his horse with a pillow...few miles southeast of the French fort, a combined force of about 850 French...surrender to French terms at his Fort Necessity in 1754 could have started...
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The American Miracle
Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 18, December 16, 2002
...their own fort in the region, Fort Duquesne, but Washington built his own...European battlefields, set off for Fort Duquesne in June 1755. Twenty-two hundred...fashion on the long journey to Fort Duquesne. In reaching the area and preparing...
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View from Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Is Now Striving Energetically to Reinvent Itself as a Model for the Post-Industrial City of the Twenty-First Century
Magazine article by Raymund Ryan; The Architectural Review, Vol. 214, December 2003
...Monongahela and Allegheny was the site of Fort DuQuesne, Frances eighteenth-century trading...such Pittsburgh institutions as Duquesne University, with Mies van der Rohes...chip--decidedly not blue collar--Duquesne Club now somewhat marooned Downtown...
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Multiculturalism and the American Revolution of 1776: A Response to David Lyons
Magazine article by John Bellamy Foster; Monthly Review, Vol. 45, April 1994
Subjects: Racism--History, United States history, United States history--Revolution, 1775-1783
...the region, were forced to abandon Fort Duquesne at the forks of the Ohio. In July...Iroquois helped defeat the French at Fort Niagara, the strategic French fur-trading...post on Lake Ontario. The loss of Fort Niagara shattered the French empire...
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Fort Augusta Key to Saving Pennsylvania; Enabled British to March West, Drive out French
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 23, 2009
Subjects: French and Indian War, 1754-1763, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, United States history--French and Indian War, 1755-1763
...the Pennsylvania frontier near where the French built Fort Duquesne (at the junction of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio...under Gen. John Forbes to march west in 1758 and take Fort Duquesne from the French (it was rebuilt and named Fort Pitt...
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Legendary Frontiersman Here All Bone and Sinew
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 21, 2003
Subjects: Boone, Daniel
...age 21, when he served with Maj. Gen. Edward Braddocks British army during its disastrous defeat at the battle for Fort Duquesne at the start of the French and Indian War. Braddock was killed during the bloody engagement in the thick woods. Among...
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What George Washington Knew
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 1, 2009
Subjects: Ferling, John E., Washington, George (American president)
...the British sent another army to clear the French from Fort Duquesne, Washington raised suspicions about his integrity by unsuccessfully...northerly route. Indeed, just last year, the museum at Fort Necessity took possession of a deed document by which...
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Of a Founder and a Frontiersman
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 23, 2008
Subjects: Adams, Sam, Autonomy, Autonomy (Political science)
...events - from being a wagon driver at the age of 16 in Gen. Edward Braddocks ill-fated campaign to oust the French from Fort Duquesne on the far Pennsylvania frontier in 1755 until his own death in the by then largely settled Missouri in 1820. The trouble...
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70-Year Reign of Bethesda's Pioneer Mother
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 2, 1999
...Edward Braddock and the young George Washington followed it in April 1755 en route to their ill-fated assault on Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh) during the French and Indian War. The other madonnas east of the Mississippi River are beside the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Fort Duquesne  - 22 results

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Fort Duquesne
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FORT DUQUESNE d kan , doo , at the junction of the...of the French (see Fort Necessity ). Fort Duquesne was also the goal of an unsuccessful...Forbes and retreated north after burning Fort Duquesne. The English rebuilt it and renamed it...
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Duquesne, Fort
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DUQUESNE, FORT see Fort Duquesne . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Pitt, Fort
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PITT, FORT see Fort Duquesne ; Pittsburgh . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Fort Necessity
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the site of Pittsburgh) had been captured (and renamed Fort Duquesne) by the French. In late May, 1754, a French patrol had...Great Meadows. A large French reprisal force attacked Fort Necessity and forced Washington to surrender on July 4...
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Gibson, John , American Frontiersman
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Pa. After taking part in the capture (1758) of Fort Duquesne (renamed Fort Pitt) in the French and Indian War, he became a trader...Americans. For a time (1781 82) he was commander at Fort Pitt. Later he was living in Pennsylvania at the time...
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