The park landscape marks the 1804 battle between Tlingit defenders and Russian forces and their allies. Interpretation centers the conflict within the larger story of colonial expansion, resistance and the Tlingit departure from the fortified site.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: nps.gov/sitk/learn/historyculture/battle-of-sitka.htm