Fort Saint-Jean Memorial
Municipality/Province: Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC
Memorial number: 24063-008
Type: Slab
Address: 15 Jacques-Cartier Street North
Location: At the entrance of the Saint-Jean Royal Military College
GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.299037 Long: -73.2540339
Submitted by: Jacinthe Choinière
This memorial commemorates Fort Saint-Jean. It was erected by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada in 1926 and replaced in 1980.
Inscription found on memorial
Fort Saint-Jean
L’état de guerre avec les Iroquois incita les Français à
bâtir un fort à Saint-Jean en 1666. Un nouveau fort fut
érigé en 1748 afin de protéger la colonie française contre
les expéditions militaires britaniques qui remontaient la
rivière Richelieu. En 1775, deux redoutes furent construites
pour défendre contre l’invasion américaine la colonnie passée
aux mains des Anglais. La même année, le fort soutint un
siège de 45 jours dirigé par le général américain Montgom-
ery. A la suite du soulèvement de 1837, de nouvelles
fortifications sont établies sur l’emplacement du fort.
Ces bâtiments constituent depuis1952 le coeur du Collège
militaire royal de Saint-Jean.
As a result of the Iroquois wars a first fort was erected
at St-Jean by the French in 1666. In 1748 a second fort
was built to protect the French colony against British
military expeditions aming up the Richelieu. Later on,
as a result of the American Revolution two redoubts were
built to protect the now English colony against an Amer-
icain invasion. Fallowing the 1837 uprising a new military
complex was built on the site of its predecessors. It is
this complex which as served since 1952 as the core of
the new Collège militaire royal de St-Jean.
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