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The site was added to the [[Wikipedia:National Register of Historic Places|National Register of Historic Places]] on [[July 8]], [[1974]].
==Construction==
Richard Campbell, in his ''Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida'', describes the layout and build of Fort George:
{{cquote|Fort George was a quadrangle with bastions at each comer. There were within the fort a powder magazine and barracks for the garrison, besides the chamber above mentioned. The woods north of it, for an eighth of a mile, and within a curve bending around it to the bay, were felled, in order to give play to its guns landward, whilst they could bear, upon an enemy in the bay by firing over the town. By a system of signals, intercommunication was kept up with Tartar Point and thence with Red Cliffs.|20px|20px|Richard Campbell, ''Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida''.<ref>Campbell, Richard L. [http://ia311206.us.archive.org/1/items/historicalsketch00camprich/historicalsketch00camprich.pdf "Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida"]. The Williams Publishing Co., Cleveland: 1892.</ref>}}
==Battle of Pensacola==
Image:GageHillAerial.jpg|The ruins of Fort George atop [[Gage Hill]] circa 1870s
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==References==
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[[Category:Forts]] [[Category:City of Pensacola parks]] [[Category:National Register of Historic Places]]
