How the hell do you forget which side you came from????
Did they have their heads on baseball bats and spun till they couldn't see straight than picked which side to build on?
But it isn't like it was a feild these guys were told across this river is Canada and they put on their idiot caps and said soooooo that side is America and this side us canada??
*hand slap to forehead*
It's a lake. And the border at the time wasn't along a river at all, but defined by the 45 parallel. Since the forts construction the border between the United states and Canada has moved, so now it's only the 45 parallel west of the lake of the woods, which is part of Minnesota and Quebec, west of lake superior. The fort is in modern day New York.
Did they have their heads on baseball bats and spun till they couldn't see straight than picked which side to build on?
*hand slap to forehead*