Adam Rebick from Magdalen College School, winner of our Reading Heat, discusses why history matters to him through examining the significance of Fort Stanwick and the American War of Independence.

 

Fort Stanwix was a colonial fort whose construction was started on August 26, 1758, by British General John Stanwix, at the location of present-day Rome, New York, but was not completed until about 1762. The fort guarded a portage known as the Oneida Carrying Place during the French and Indian War. A reconstructed fort has been built at the site by the National Park Service, and Fort Stanwix National Monument lies in the center of the modern city.