Canada's toughest fortress to crack?

I think Prince of Wales Fort in Manitoba would be difficult to hold against a solid attack. It has no ditch, no earthen glacis, and no source of provisions for the men who operate its forty-two cannons, plus six additional cannons in a battery across the river on Cape Merry. Because the fort is on flat land on all sides you'd need to be prepared to operate at least two sides of the fort's guns at once.

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And then there's the winter, and polar bears to deal with.

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Prince of Wales. No other nation can project power that far.
PoW fort was taken by a French force of one Ship of the Line and two frigates that sailed into Hudson's Bay in the 1790s, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Bay_expedition

The fort fell without a shot due to a much understrength garrison of under 50 men, with damage such as http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/mb/...&photo={7694D6E1-AA13-4A2B-A3B9-AFCB4B2FAC4C}

It would have been interesting to see how PoW fort would have performed against the French had the fort been properly manned and equipped.

It's noteworthy how remote PoW fort was, and it's easy to imagine it's the most northern fortification, however there are much larger forts location at higher latitudes in Europe.
 
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