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Fort Hyndshaw : ウィキペディア英語版 | Fort Hyndshaw Fort Hyndshaw, located in Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, was one of a number of forts in Colonial Pennsylvania built in 1755 and 1756 during the French and Indian War. ==The need for fortifications.==
In response to an increasing number of attacks in Pennsylvania by French troops in the western part of the state and by Indian hostilities close to Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Legislature placed Benjamin Franklin and James Hamilton in charge to erect a chain of forts along the Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania) in the Minisink region .〔Benjamin Franklin and his tie to Monroe County’s frontier forts September 2012 http://www.monroehistorical.org/articles/files/2012_09_fthamilton.html〕 Franklin, via a letter dated January 12, 1756 to Captain James Van Etten, ordered him to “proceed immediately to raise a Company of Foot, consisting of 30 able Men, including two Serjeants, with which you are to protect the Inhabitants of Upper Smithfield assisting them while they thresh out and secure their Corn, and scouting from time to time as you judge necessary on the Outside of the Settlements.”〔Monroe County’s frontier forts: Fort Hyndshaw. November 2012 http://www.monroehistorical.org/articles/files/2012_11_fthyndshaw.html〕
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