Victory and Defeat — Old Fort Niagara, New York
Three flags fly over Old Fort Niagara in upstate New York — French, British and American — symbolizing the three nations that occupied and held the fort over the past 300 years. Witness to battles and sieges, it sits silently high on a bluff downstream from Niagara Falls where the mouth of the river meets Lake Ontario. But it was not always like this. With Canada only 1,200 yards away, America’s most strategic emplacement was often filled with the sound…