FULTON, a city of Oswego county, New York, U.S.A., on the Oswego river and canal, i2111. from Lake Ontario. It is served by the Lackawanna, the New York Central, and the New York, Ontario and Western railways. The population was 13,043 in 1920; 1930 it was 12,462. Ample water-power is furnished by the river, and the manufactures are numerous and varied, including paper, aluminium goods, cutlery and chocolate candy, with an ag gregate output in 1927 valued at On July 3, 1756, on an island 4m. N. of Fulton, an attacking force of 700 French and Indians under De Villiers was defeated by 30o British under Capt. John Bradstreet, who soon afterwards built a fort within the present limits of the city. Settlement by civilians began in 1793. The village was named after Robert Fulton. It was in corporated in 1835, and in 1902, combined with Oswego Falls, was chartered as a city.