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[[Image:Fortwilliamplan.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Plan of Fort William, 1844]]
'''Fort William''' was the main British military garrison in [[Calcutta]]. It is still in use today as the headquarters of the Indian Army Eastern Command.
==The New Fort William==
The new Fort William was built by [[Robert Clive ]] at a cost of £2,000,000 and was completed in 1773. Situated on the site known as the Maidan, it is octagonal in shape and covers an area of 2 square miles. Three sides of the fort face the Hoogly River and there are six gates. [[Image:Fort William, Calcutta.jpg|right|thumb|250px| ''Fort William, Calcutta'']]
===Garrison===
===Buildings===
Buildings inside the fort include:
*St Peter's Church - the fort church built in 1828.
*St Patrick's - Catholic Chapel built in 1857
*Military Prison
*Governor's Residence - later used as the Soldier's Institute and the Garrison School
===Burial ground===
As a result of new construction in the Fort in the 1880s, the ‘old’ burial ground is no longer in existence, and some of the headstones were moved and are now mounted on the walls at South Park Cemetery. <ref>Evers, Maureen. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200118055550/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/2240541/ Kolkata research] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 21 November 2009, now archived. The original advice was from Dr John Roberts, co-author of ''Malabar Christian Memorials at Cannanore, Tellicherry and Mahe 1723-1990'' and ''Nilgiri Hills Christian Memorials 1822-2006'', who had researched in Calcutta.</ref> The ‘new' burial ground is part of the military base and is closed to the public.<ref>Murphy, Sylvia. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200118055402/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/2240456/ Kolkata research] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 18 November 2009, now archived.</ref>
These burial grounds are different burial grounds to those at Bhowanipore Cemetery, the old (separate) part of which is known as the Military Burial Ground.
==External Links==
*Early plans of Fort William can be found by searching the French archive [[French#ANOM, previously CAOM|ANOM]]'s database [http://caomanom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/sdxulysse/ Ulysse].*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/calcutta/fortwilliam/fortwilliam.html Images of Fort William] 'Indian Routes' Prof. Emerita Frances W. Pritchett, Columbia University*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000004042u00000000.html 1835 Watercolour: St Peter's Church, Fort William, Calcutta] British Library. Click to enlarge*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/photohistorytimeline/4517308383/in/set-72157612613850222/ Photograph by Frederick Fiebig - St Peter's Church, Fort William, Calcutta, c 1850] flickr.com*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/t/019pho0000897s1u00002000.html Photograph: The Dalhousie Barracks & part of Staff Barracks, Fort William, [Calcutta<nowiki>]</nowiki> c 1880s] British Library. Click to enlarge*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160412122408/http://imagesofasia.com/html/india/dalhousie-barrack.html Postcard: Calcutta. Dalhousie Barrack Fort William] imagesofasia.com, now archived.*[http://ulyssewww.kingsownmuseum.com/galleryaccommodation01.htm Photo Gallery: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers: Colonial Buildings of the 19th Century] King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. Scroll down to two images of Fort William, one of which refer to “Queen's Barracks, St. Peter's Barracks, Dalhousie Barracks” ===Historical books online===*''Indian Records Series: Old Fort William in Bengal'' by CR Wilson Archive.org 1906 [http://www.archive.org/stream/oldfortwilliami00wilsgoog#page/n7/mode/1up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/oldfortwilliami00unkngoog#page/n9/mode/1up Volume 2]:"A Short History of Old Fort William in Bengal" by the late C R Wilson, ''Bengal Past and Present''. Originally appeared in the ''Indian Church Review'' of 1901 and 1902. Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/bengal-past-present-1907-vol-1/page/n52/mode/2up "Part I" pages 30-46] ''Bengal Past and Present Volume 1, July 1907 '':[https://archive.org/details/bengal-past-present-1907-vol-1/page/n129/mode/2up "Part II" pages 93-111] ''Bengal Past and Present Volume 1, July 1907'' :[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.500670/page/n5/mode/2up "Part III" pages 1-16] ''Bengal Past and Present, Volume 2 January 1908''*[http://books.google.com.au/sommairebooks?clearid= UlysseoKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA284 Fort William], page 284 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/346/mode/2up Fort William] page 347 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.04031/page/n95/mode/2up "Scraps from Fort William Regimental History"] by H Hobbs pages 90-104 ''Bengal Past and Present Volume 52 July-December 1936''. Archive.org.:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501563/page/n13/mode/2up "Scraps from Fort William Regimental History"] by H Hobbs pages 7-30 ''Bengal Past and Present Volume 53 January-June 1937'' Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501563/page/n113/mode/2up "Scraps from Fort William Regimental History"]by H Hobbs pages 100-123 ''Bengal Past and Present Volume 53 January-June 1937''.Archive.org. == References ==<references />
