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Fort King George and GA were attempts to counteract French expansion
Source: New Paths Beaten: Verner Crane's The Southern Frontier #564
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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.
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