Vijay Durg
- Recently, Fort William, the headquarters of the Eastern Army Command, has been renamed Vijay Durg.
- It is named after Maharashtra's oldest Sindhudurg fort, a former Maratha naval base under Chhatrapati Shivaji.
- The fort is located in Kolkata on the eastern banks of the Hooghly River and was originally named after King William III of England.
- The original fort was built by the British in 1696 under Sir John Goldsborough and completed in 1706.
- It was damaged during the Siege of Calcutta (1756) when Siraj-ud-Daulah defeated the British.
- After the Battle of Plassey (1757), Robert Clive rebuilt it at ....
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