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. > > 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 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: NWDB2000 > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:57 PM > Subject: Re: [NYHIST-L] Tomorrow is the 223rd Anniversary of Evacuation > Day > > > "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: > > "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 > > > > >