Fort St. Joseph
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Fort St. Joseph may refer to:

In Canada:
  • Fort St. Joseph (Ontario)
    Fort St. Joseph (Ontario)
    Fort St. Joseph is a former British outpost on the southernmost point of St. Joseph Island in Ontario, Canada, on Lake Huron. Situated on approximately 325 hectares along the St. Mary's River, Fort St. Joseph was the staging ground for the initial attack in the War of 1812...

    , on St. Joseph Island at southern end of the St. Marys River, now the site of Fort St. Joseph National Historic Site Canada


In the United States:
  • Fort St. Joseph (Port Huron)
    Fort St. Joseph (Port Huron)
    A short lived French fort established in 1686 by Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut. Its heyday was in 1687 when about two hundred coureurs de bois, about five hundred Algonquian, Henri de Tonti, Nicholas Perrot, Oliver Morel de La Durantaye, and thirty French soldiers gathered there under Marquis de...

    , on north end of the St. Clair River in what is now Port Huron, Michigan
  • Fort St. Joseph (Niles, Michigan), on the St. Joseph River near what is now Niles, Michigan


Other
  • Fort-Liberté
    Fort-Liberté
    Fort-Liberté is the administrative capital of the Nord-Est Department, Haiti. It is close to the border of the Dominican Republic and is one of the oldest cities in the country. Haiti's independence was proclaimed here on November 29, 1803. The area around Fort-Liberté was originally inhabited by...

    , previously known as Fort St. Joseph, in Haiti
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