National Historic Landmark -Fort Stanwix

National Historic Landmark -Fort Stanwix

Resistance by the Fort's American garrison in August 1777 was chiefly responsible for the repulse of the western wing of a British invasion from Canada.

Also the site of a major treaty involving the Iroquois in ...

Relief for Fort Stanwix

On August 3, 1777, when British General Barry St.Leger reached Fort Stanwix, he found it held by colonial forces and began a siege. Soon after, to relieve the fort, about 800 men of the Tryon County Militia, commanded by General ...

Fort Stanwix

Defending the Mohawk Valley

Fort Stanwix...is large and well situated. The Examination of this fortification gave me a better idea of the strength and Importance of a Fort than any thing I ever before saw or Read.

Captain Joseph Bloomfield, 1776

Marker can ...