The construction of Fort Stanwix commenced on August 26, 1758 in present day Rome, New York under the British general John Stanwix and it was completed in 1762. The fort is in the shape of a square with 4 diamonds breaking out at each corner, which was a popular feature of forts of the time, because it provides more surface area to fit more cannons and to have more feasible angles on targets. Fort Stanwix was built to guard a portage between the main waterway southeastward to the Atlantic seacoast, down the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, and an important interior waterway northwestward to Lake Ontario, down Wood Creek and Oneida Lake to Oswego. The fort was abandoned in 1768 and allowed to go to ruin until it reconstructed by colonial troops in 1777 in order to be used in the revolutionary war where it would aid them greatly in their battles against the British.
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