found: Encyc. of Hist. Forts, 1988:p. 363 (Fort George: on June 17th [1779] an English force of 750 men and three sloops of war seized Castine [Me.] and on July 2nd began the construction of Fort George on a commanding rise in the center of the small peninsula; on July 28 the American infantry landed and on July 29 began shelling Fort George; British strengthened and improved the fort and increased its firepower; British evacuated Fort George in Jan. 1784 and burnt the fort's structures; hastily reconstructed during Sept. 1814; abandoned in 1819, Fort George left to the elements; by 1960 Maine Legislature appropriated funds to conduct research and reconstruct one of the magazines)
