Old Travel Blog Photograph Of The Bridge And Ditch Fort George Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Bridge and Ditch at Fort George, a large 18th century fortress near Ardersier, to the North East of Inverness, Scotland. The first Fort George was built in 1727 in Inverness; it was a large fortress capable of housing 400 troops on a hill beside the River Ness, on the site of, and incorporating portions of, the medieval castle which had been rebuilt as a citadel by Oliver Cromwell but later abandoned. The first commanding officer of the original Fort George was Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet, Colonel of the 42nd Royal Highlanders Black Watch and chief of the Highland Clan Munro. This new fort was built to pacify the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, replacing the earlier Fort George built with the same aim after the 1715 Jacobite rising. The fortress has never been attacked and has remained in continuous use as a garrison.



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