Fort Blunder, The Military Installation Built In The Wrong Country

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
01/11/2021 3 min Temporada 3 Episodio 646

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Today in 1816, the US military awarded to built a contract for a fort next to Lake Champlain, near the border with Canada. For years crews worked to make the fort strong, until one day when they realized there was a big problem. Plus: people on Tumblr say today is the 1000th birthday of a medieval monk's brother named Werner. 
Fort Blunder, America’s Most Embarrassing Gun Battery (New England Historical Society)
The chronicle of the monk Herbert of Reichenau (Elucubrare on Tumblr)
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