A breif coda on Ft. Niagara,

From their website:
"Fort Niagara was recaptured by the British in 1813. It was ceded to the
United States a second time in 1815 at the end of the War of 1812."

Bob


> Rolland is correct. Although the Treaty of Paris of 1783 said that Britain
> would evacuate all posts w/in the new United States, they did not.
> Scattered posts from present-day Vermont to present-day Michigan remained
> in British hands until Jay's Treaty of 1795. Niagara was one of these
> British held forts on U. S. soil.
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> Not all points in the 1783 Treaty were honored. We were slow in allowing
> British debts to be collected & never did return confiscated British real
> estate to its pre-war owners. Neither did the British ever return captured
> & run-away slaves to their pre-war masters.
>
> David
>
> David Roberts
> Hollywood, MD
>
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> Day
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>         "Britain gained control of Fort Niagara in 1759, during the French
> & Indian War, after a nineteen-day siege. The British held the
> post throughout the American Revolution but were forced, by
> treaty, to yield it to the United States in 1796. "
> https://oldfortniagara.org/history/
>
>         Would seem to exceed the Evacuation of New York date quoted below:
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>         "On November 25, 1783, the British Army boarded their naval
> vessels and
>         Evacuated New York City (then only coterminous with New York
> County), their wartime
>         Headquarters and their last military position in the United States
> during the
>         Revolutionary War."
>
>         Rolland Miner
>         Fogg of War, Book II - Assault on Carillon 1758
>         An Historical Novel of the F&I War
>         www.minerbooks.info
>         www.lulu.com/content/491665
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