Fort de Nonville

Fort de Nonville, 1687, Niagara County, Youngstown. Governor de Nonville spent the summer of 1687 engaged in an impressive, if futile, campaign against Seneca villages in the Genessee Valley near the site of modern Rochester, New York. Houses and crops were destroyed , but few warriors were captured or killed. To complete his attempt to pacify the Iroquois, de Nonville moved his army to the mouth of the Niagara River. There he established a fort on the site of Fort Conti (1679). Within a few weeks a fort of bales with four bastions was built July 1687, enclosing eight buildings, and christened Fort de Nonville. Then, leaving 120 (or 100) men under Captain Pierre de Troyes to hold the post for the winter, the Governor and his army returned to Montreal. With inadequate winter provisions 80 died (or 12 survived). Relieved in April 1688, but still under siege by Senecas, the fort was abandoned in August, and the Senecas burned the fort.

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