abstract:Fort George (named after King George II of Great Britain) is the fortified summit of Citadel Hill, a National Historic Site of Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. First established in 1749, during Father Le Loutre's War to protect the protestant settlers against raids by the French, Acadians, and Wabanaki Confederacy (primarily the Mi'kmaq), it was successively rebuilt to defend the town from various enemies.
He considered the possibility of swimming across, and under optimal circumstances the tiger might have attempted it, but the smell rising off the bodies turned him around, sent him back past the citadelhill and into the ruined city.