Sir Walter Raleigh thought the legendary city of El Dorado was in Guyana and led an expedition to find it in 1595.
Begun in 1819 and completed in 1826, Fort Pike was named for the explorer and soldier General Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813) whose name is also attached to Pike's Peak in the Rocky Mountains. Fort Pike is the first of the permanent or Third System fortifications. The fort was designed to withstand attack from land or sea.
Sir Walter Raleigh thought the legendary city of El Dorado was in Guyana and led an expedition to find it in 1595.
