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Fort Ligonier

Fort Ligonier

Fortification in Ligonier, PennsylvaniaWikipedia

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Sep 29, 2026

Jasper OorthuysPANELIST
61:15
You can always see something else.
Jasper OorthuysPANELIST
61:17
And then visited Fort Ligonier on the way back and Fort Pitt, which was the Fort Pitt Museum, I should say, which is the most downtown you can get in Pittsburgh.
Jasper OorthuysPANELIST
61:28
On the Forks of the Ohio, where the Susquehanna and Allegheny rivers become the Ohio, giant rivers, lots of bridges around you, lots of very high, tall buildings.
Jasper OorthuysPANELIST
61:40
And then there's like one block house still remaining from the 18th century, which is kind of cool.
Greg GiordanoNARRATOR
11:05
After they had waited at Fort Duquesne eight days, Colonel Boquet started to march with his band of children to the town of Carlisle in hopes that they might find friends farther east, or at least kind-hearted people who would give the children homes.
Greg GiordanoNARRATOR
11:18
He sent news of their march all through the country, and from day to day, as they traveled through the mountains by way of Fort Ligonier, Raystown, and Loudoun, eager people arrived to search among the band of children for lost sons and daughters.
Greg GiordanoNARRATOR
11:31
When the children came to Carlisle, the town was filled with settlers from the east.
Greg GiordanoNARRATOR
11:35
The children stood in the marketplace, and the men and women pressed about them, trying to recognize little ones who had been carried away by Indians years before.

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