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Fort Clarence (formerly the Eastern Battery) was a British coastal fort built in 1754 at the beginning of the French and Indian War in
"The History of The Townships of Dartmouth, Preston and Lawrencetown, Halifax County, Nova Scotia"
p. 16
Fort Clarence
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{{coord, 44.6399, -63.5401, type:landmark_region:CA-NS, display=title Military history of Nova Scotia History of Halifax, Nova Scotia Military forts in Nova Scotia
Fort Clarence (formerly the Eastern Battery) was a British coastal fort built in 1754 at the beginning of the French and Indian War in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dartmouth ( ) is an urban community and former city located in the Halifax Regional Municipality of Nova Scotia, Canada. Dartmouth is located on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour. Dartmouth has been nicknamed the City of Lakes, after the larg ...
, Canada. The battery was built on the grant of Capt. John Rous. Initially it had 8 guns mounted. In spring 1759, a Mi'kmaq attack on the Eastern Battery killed five soldiers.
On 17 November 1778, the King's Orange Rangers arrived by sea at Halifax.Leefe (1996), p.4. The reason for the transfer was probably to stem desertions by relocating the men to a place much farther away from their homes. The KOR was assigned to protect the Eastern Battery on the shore of Halifax harbour at the south end of Woodside
Woodside may refer to:
Places and buildings Australia
*Woodside, South Australia, a town
*Woodside, Victoria, a town
Canada
*Woodside National Historic Site, the boyhood home of William Lyon Mackenzie King
*Woodside, Nova Scotia, a neighborho ...
, where the neighborhood of Imperoyal now exists.
Eastern Battery was renamed Fort Clarence by Prince Edward on 20 October 1798 in honor of his brother, the Duke of Clarence and St. Andrews, later King William IV. In the late 1790s, a Martello tower replaced the blockhouse. The fort was rebuilt with stone in the 1860s.
In 1929, Imperial Oil
Imperial Oil Limited (French: ''Compagnie Pétrolière Impériale Ltée'') is a Canadian petroleum company. It is Canada's second-biggest integrated oil company. It is majority owned by American oil company ExxonMobil with around 69.6 percent ...
purchased the site which became part of its Dartmouth Refinery
The Dartmouth Refinery is a former oil refinery in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, owned by Imperial Oil. It was located on the eastern side of Halifax Harbour, and the crude oil arrived via ship. It covered some south of central Dartmouth, with th ...
and the remaining parts of the fort were buried in the 1940s. The refinery was converted to an oil storage depot in 2013 and archeologists are calling for the fort to be excavated.
See also
*Military history of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia (also known as Mi'kma'ki and Acadia) is a Canadian province located in Canada's Maritimes. The region was initially occupied by Mi'kmaq. The colonial history of Nova Scotia includes the present-day Canadian Maritime provinces and th ...
* Military history of the Mi’kmaq people
* Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax
References
Further reading
* John G. Leefe, ''"History of the Royal Provincial Regiment King's Orange Rangers'' * Mrs. William Lawson"The History of The Townships of Dartmouth, Preston and Lawrencetown, Halifax County, Nova Scotia"
p. 16
External links
Fort Clarence
Images of Fort Clarence during American Civil War
{{coord, 44.6399, -63.5401, type:landmark_region:CA-NS, display=title Military history of Nova Scotia History of Halifax, Nova Scotia Military forts in Nova Scotia