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Article: Frontier fort life.(Fort Duquesne)
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- September 1, 2005
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Unlike fighting on Europe's long-cleared fields, where troops could live off the land, much of the fighting during the French and Indian War took place in wooded, uneven terrain. The armies of France and Great Britain and their allies had to adjust to the challenges of moving men and supplies through a vast and usually unfamiliar wilderness.
Rivers and lakes served as the major "highways" in 18th-century America, enabling armies to move troops, military supplies, and food at a time when few roads existed. Frontier forts were built along waterways to take advantage of these natural routes. For example, the site of Fort Duquesne, built at the Forks of the Ohio ...