Fort Sandoské

Fort Sandoské was a French military fort, built about 1750 on what is now called the Marblehead Peninsula on the northern side of Sandusky Bay in Ohio, near the traditional portage place from the bay to Lake Erie.

It was built at a site formerly occupied about 1745 by a trading-post run by mostly Pennsylvanian ("English") fur-traders, who had been given permission by

Venice, Ohio developed near here. That fort was overrun and destroyed in 1763 during Pontiac's War.^[1]

There was much confusion about the affiliation of trading posts and forts around Sandusky Bay. The French briefly used Fort Sandoské to secure supply and communication between

Laval University in Quebec.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Lucy Elliot Keeler (15 September 1912). Old Fort Sandoski of 1745 and the 'Sandusky Country'. Vol. 21. Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. pp. 357–368). Retrieved 31 July 2018. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

External links

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[FtSand-1] Lucy Elliot Keeler (15 September 1912). Old Fort Sandoski of 1745 and the 'Sandusky Country'. Vol. 21. Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. pp. 357–368). Retrieved 31 July 2018. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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