Fort Rouge was a fort located on the Assiniboine River in Manitoba , Canada , on the site of what is now the city of Winnipeg . Its exact location is unknown. Its name in English means "red fort".
5-722: Fort Rouge (French for "Red Fort") can refer to: Fort Rouge (fortification) , a fortification built on the Assiniboine River near the Forks Fort Rouge, Winnipeg , a city neighborhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba , Canada Fort Rouge (electoral district) , a provincial electoral district in Manitoba Agra Fort , a walled palatial city in India also known as
10-423: The "Red Fort" See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Fort Rouge" or "Rouge Fort" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Fort Rouge All pages with titles containing Fort Rouge Fort (disambiguation) Rouge (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
15-526: The Assiniboine River for Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye . La Vérendrye and his sons, Louis-Joseph and Francois , proceeded further west on the Assiniboine and constructed Fort La Reine . The fort seems to have had a primary purpose as a depot and was abandoned by 1749. A new commandant of the French western forts, Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre , spent the winter of 1752–1753 at
20-483: The Forks , and likely rebuilt Fort Rouge at its original location. Much research points to this site being on the north bank of the Assiniboine near the forks although some scholars place the original fort on the south bank. Trading posts were built near Fort Rouge by Bruce and Boyer in 1780 and by Alexander Henry the younger in 1803, as was Fort Gibraltar in 1807. The district of Fort Rouge in south-central Winnipeg
25-526: The title Fort Rouge . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Rouge&oldid=1178499815 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fort Rouge (fortification) In 1738 Sieur Louis Damours de Louvières built Fort Rouge on
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