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Fort Amherstburg was built by the Royal Canadian Volunteers at the mouth of the Detroit River to replace Fort Detroit which Britain was required to cede to the United States of America in 1796 as a result of the Jay Treaty.Built in the years before the War of 1812 Fort Amherstburg included King’s Navy Yard for shipbuilding on the upper Great Lakes (Lakes Erie Huron and Superior). The war of 1812 began and escalated quickly with US General William Hull invading Canada in July 1812.