Built in 1660 by Louis XIV, Fort Saint-Jean is a well-preserved fortress guarding Marseille at the entrance to the Old Port. Interestingly, it was built not to keep invaders at bay but to tamp down a ...

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MARSEILLE, France (CN) — On the edge of Marseille’s port, two forts mirror each other across the water of the harbor, standing guard between the city and the open sea. But Fort Saint-Jean and Fort ...

When Benedict Arnold's army was still six weeks away from Quebec, Brigadier-General Richard Montgomery's Americans had already begun the invasion. Montreal resident Thrse Baby wrote to her brother at ...

Spanish Fort, at the mouth of Bayou St. John, is probably better remembered for its amusement park than its battlements. In 1701, the French built a small fort, Fort St. Jean, where the bayou met Lake ...