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Star_fort_prince_of_wales.

description	Construction of the Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson Bay, Canada, took 40 years to complete. This massive structure had walls 12 metres (40 feet) thick and 5 metres (16 feet) high with 40 mounted guns, all designed to keep the rival French fur traders out of the lucrative Hudson Bay area. Prince of Wales Fort was one of the most massive stone structures on the continent and fell to the French in 1783 without a single shot being fired. The French burned all the interior buildings and tried to disable the fort by exploding charges in the mouths of the cannons and blowing up the outer walls
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is_instance_of	Star_fort.