Fort Pitt Museum

In the mid-1700s, the tip of present-day Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle at the Forks of the Ohio was a valuable piece of land to both the British and French colonial powers vieing for control of North America. This guidebook traces the story of the construction Fort Duquesne by the French, the failed attempt of Gen. Edward Braddock and his British force to capture the fort in 1754, its eventual capture in 1758 by British Gen. John Forbes's troops, its transformation into Fort Pitt, and the siege on the fort by Indian forces during Pontiac's War in 1763.