Fort Duquesne And Fort Pitt Early Names of Pittsburgh Streets
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A letter dated September 24, 1759, gives the follow- ing account : " It is now near a month since the army has been employed in erecting a most formidable fortification, such a one as will to latest posterity se- cure the British empire on the Ohio. There is no need to enumerate the abilities of the chief engineer nor the spirit shown by the troops m executing the important task ; the fort will soon be a lasting monu- ment of both. " The fort was built near the point where the Alle- gheny and M...onongahela unite their waters, but a little farther inland than the site of Fort Duquesne. It stood on the present site of the Duquesne Freight Station, while all the ground from the Point to Third Street and from Liberty Street to the Allegheny River was enclosed in a stockade and surrounded by a moat. It was a solid and substantial building, con- structed at an enormous expense to the English Gov- ernment. *' It was five-sided, tvv^o sides facing the land of brick, the others stockade. The earth around was thrown up so all was enclosed by a ram- part of earth, supported on the land side by a per- pendicular wall of brick ; on the other sides a line of *There is a wide discrepancy in the authorities as to the cost of Fort Pitt; some state the cost as "six hundred pounds, others give it as sixty thousand pounds.
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A letter dated September 24, 1759, gives the follow- ing account : " It is now near a month since the army has been employed in erecting a most formidable fortification, such a one as will to latest posterity se- cure the British empire on the Ohio. There is no need to enumerate the abilities of the chief engineer nor the spirit shown by the troops m executing the important task ; the fort will soon be a lasting monu- ment of both. " The fort was built near the point where the Alle- gheny and M...onongahela unite their waters, but a little farther inland than the site of Fort Duquesne. It stood on the present site of the Duquesne Freight Station, while all the ground from the Point to Third Street and from Liberty Street to the Allegheny River was enclosed in a stockade and surrounded by a moat. It was a solid and substantial building, con- structed at an enormous expense to the English Gov- ernment. *' It was five-sided, tvv^o sides facing the land of brick, the others stockade. The earth around was thrown up so all was enclosed by a ram- part of earth, supported on the land side by a per- pendicular wall of brick ; on the other sides a line of *There is a wide discrepancy in the authorities as to the cost of Fort Pitt; some state the cost as "six hundred pounds, others give it as sixty thousand pounds.
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