Episode 1061
Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain)
Sun, 2020-Mar-29 02:58 UTC
Length - 1:37
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With 295,196 views on Saturday, 28 March 2020 our article of the day is Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain).
Fort Montgomery on Lake Champlain is the second of two American forts built at the northernmost point of the American part of the lake: a first, unnamed fort built on the same site in 1816 and Fort Montgomery built in 1844.
The current massive stone fortification, the second fort, was built between 1844 and 1871 at the Canada–US border of Lake Champlain at Island Point in the village of Rouses Point, New York.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:58 UTC on Sunday, 29 March 2020.
For the full current version of the article, see Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain) on Wikipedia.
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