{"id":29898,"date":"2025-02-06T05:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T23:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29898"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:14:55","slug":"fort-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fort-william\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort William"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Fort William Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Fort William in Kolkata, the headquarters of the Eastern Army Command, has been renamed Vijay Durg recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Fort William<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fort William was <strong>built by the British in 1773<\/strong> and was <strong>named after King William III<\/strong> of England.<\/li>\n<li>It is located on the <strong>eastern bank<\/strong> of the<strong> river Hooghly in Kolkata, <\/strong>West Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>Today, Fort William is the <strong>property of the Indian Arm<\/strong>y. It also serves as the <strong>headquarters of the Eastern Command.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fort William History<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>original fort<\/strong> was <strong>built by the English East India Company <\/strong>in 1696.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Initially<\/strong>,it comprised wings and <strong>an inner bastion where prisoners were hauled,<\/strong> which is why it was<strong> known as &#8216;theblack hole of Calcutta&#8217;.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1756, Siraj-ud-Daulah,<\/strong> the Nawab of Bengal, attacked the fort and<strong> captured Calcutta<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>After the fall of Siraj-ud-Daulah in the Battle of Plassey<\/strong>, the fort was demolished, after which, <strong>Robert Clive began constructing a new fort.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The fort was <strong>completed in 1773 <\/strong>and stands as present-day Fort William.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fort William Architecture<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The fort is <strong>octagonal in shape<\/strong> and has an imposing structure made out of <strong>brick and mortar.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is spread over 70.9 acres and is embellished with hundreds of arched windows that overlook lush green gardens.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Meticulous stonework adorns the surface of the building.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fort William FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is Fort William known as?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Fort William is also known as the Fort William Military Complex and is often referred to as &#8220;The Citadel of Calcutta&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the importance of Fort William?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Fort William was an important historical landmark in the Kolkata district of West Bengal named after King William III, situated on the banks of the river Hooghly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Who established Fort William in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The original structure of Fort William was built in 1696 CE by the British East India Company on the banks of the river Hoogly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/fort-william-armys-eastern-hq-renamed-vijay-durg\/article69184172.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort William was built by the British in 1773 and was named after King William III of England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}