Talk:Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania)

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Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 11:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fort Pitt Foundry

The Fort Pitt foundry did cast major ordinance before and during the Civil War, including mortars used in the defense of Charleston, South Carolina. It was named after Fort Pitt, not located there. It was in the Ninth Ward Strip District (Pittsburgh) at 12th and Etna.Pustelnik (talk) 16:05, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Viciously mauled..."?

Hoo, hahh. Wow. I'm still laughing and wiping my eyes. Let me catch my breath here. Sorry. The first paragraph of this article states that the French garrison "viciously mauled" an attacking British regiment in September 1758. Well, yeah, I guess they did. They did kick their behinds pretty bad. To this day, Braddock's defeat is still an embarrassing loss for the British. But today, a dispassionate and professional historian of whatever nationality should simply say that the French garrison and their Indian allies "soundly defeated" the attacking British regiment. A crazed and rabid dog might "viciously maul" an innocent bystander. Or an enraged grizzly bear might "viciously maul" a hapless hiker, but to say that the badly outnumbered French garrison of Fort Duquesne, occupying a fort that they had built on land that had been first explored and claimed by the French explorer LaSalle, "viciously mauled" an attacking British regiment that outnumbered the French two to one, betrays a pretty slanted view of history. If the British regiment under General Braddock had soundly defeated the French that day, would you say that they had "viciously mauled" the French garrison? I doubt it. This choice of words implies that the French had no right to try and colonize the North American continent, but the British did. Utter nonsense. PGNormand (talk) 19:28, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is worth pointing out that Braddock's defeat was in 1755. The 1758 battle was part of teh successful campaign to drive the French out of the area.DavisGL (talk) 03:55, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oldest Building??

The article says, in part "Erected in 1764, it is believed to be the oldest building still standing, not only in Pittsburgh, but west of the Appalachians." I have no doubt that a 1764 building would be the oldest in Pittsburgh, but is it older than Mesa Verde? Various Pueblos? Any part of New Orleans? Surviving forts in and around the Great Lakes?

I suspect the author intended something along the lines of "The oldest building in Pennsylvania west of the Appalchians."DavisGL (talk) 04:02, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Who designed Fort Pitt?

Is there any information on who designed the fortification at Fort Pitt? The style is identical to the fortifications of Vauban, a Marshal of France and the foremost military engineer of his age.Tvbanfield (talk) 02:44, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, this needs a lot of work

Barbara (WVS) (talk) 20:41, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]