Fort King George, erected on the Altamaha River (in present-day Georgia) in 1721, represented the first implementation of a new frontier fortification strategy. "In fact," Crane argued, "it was intended, as was Georgia later, in large measure as a strategic move in the Anglo-French conflict for the west.'''(Not Oswego [New York] in 1727," Crane was quick to add, ((but Altamaha, in 1721, saw the inception of the British eighteenth-century scheme of frontier posts to counteract French . " expansion.