We went to Em;s house for Marty's 2 niece's birthday party. Nice company, good food. So to catch up a little here are pictures of the sunset on Lake Ontario down the road from the motel where we stayed.
We also went to Fort Niagara. It was pretty interesting. If you saw my FB page you saw the article of the store proprietor from the fort. We were able to go into every building on the lot to check out the insides of each. They were getting ready for a re-enactment this week-end. I would love to stay and see one sometime but it wasn't our time yet. We had to get down the road.
The front doors of the fort
Can you imagine sleeping on this bed with 12 of your closest companions?
This building is called A Hot Shot
This is the armory. It is one building on the inside, covered with 2 feet of dirt and another building built on the outside of that. The walls are 4 feet thick. If a cannon ball penetrated a wall it would not reach the powder and ammunition located inside the building. If fact, the walls on all of the rest of the buildings were about 2 feet thick with stone and mortar.
It was run by the French, British and English.
The French had asked permission of the American Indians to build a house of peace on native soil. They were given permission and built the French Castle.
However, after finding out the French had built a well on the inside of the Peace House, the natives knew they had been duped because you would not put a well inside of a structure unless it was a fort.
The front doors of the fort
Some faces of the fort
This building is called A Hot Shot
This is the armory. It is one building on the inside, covered with 2 feet of dirt and another building built on the outside of that. The walls are 4 feet thick. If a cannon ball penetrated a wall it would not reach the powder and ammunition located inside the building. If fact, the walls on all of the rest of the buildings were about 2 feet thick with stone and mortar.
It was run by the French, British and English.
The French had asked permission of the American Indians to build a house of peace on native soil. They were given permission and built the French Castle.
However, after finding out the French had built a well on the inside of the Peace House, the natives knew they had been duped because you would not put a well inside of a structure unless it was a fort.
The British, in order to get to the French, dug a ditch that zig zagged up to the fort. It took them days to do so, and it zig zagged so the French could not shot a cannon ball down a straight trench and kill the enemy. After a battle lasting 19 days the French surrendered and the fort became British.
The land on the out side of the fort was shaped in
mounds so they could see the enemy rising to the top of the mound and kill them.
It was a working fort until 1995 when the Navy gave it up and it was turned into an attraction.
We enjoyed our visit, I hope you do also.
Until Next Time
Love to All
Until Next Time
Love to All
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