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    See Fort Amsterdam, Kormantin, Ghana (UNESCO site)

    See Fort Amsterdam, Kormantin, Ghana (UNESCO site)

    Fort Amsterdam is a fort in Kormantin, Ghana. It was built by the English between 1638 and 1645 as Fort Cormantine and was captured by admiral Engel de Ruyter of the Dutch West India Company in 1665. It was subsequently made part of the Dutch Gold Coast, and remained part of it until the fort was traded with the British in 1868.
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    Visit Fort Barrancas, Warrington, Florida

    Visit Fort Barrancas, Warrington, Florida

    Fort Barrancas (1839) or Fort San Carlos de Barrancas (from 1787) is a United States military fort and National Historic Landmark in the former Warrington area of Pensacola, Florida, located physically within Naval Air Station Pensacola, which was developed later around it. The hill-top fort, connected to a sea level water battery, overlooks Pensacola Bay. From 1839&n...
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    Visit Fort Barrington, Antigua

    Visit Fort Barrington, Antigua

    Fort Barrington is a National Park on the island of Antigua. It was named for the Admiral who replaced the earthworks on the site with a permanent stone structure in 1779. Previously called Goat Hill, the hilltop protected St. John’s Harbour from attack when the first earthworks went up probably in the 1650′s. Not only did the fort guard St. John’s H...
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    See Fort Batenstein, Ghana (UNESCO site)

    See Fort Batenstein, Ghana (UNESCO site)

    Fort Batenstein was the second trading post established by the Dutch on their Gold Coast between 1595 and 1600, after Fort Nassau was founded in Mouri around the same time. It was situated near Butre (old spelling: Boutry). In 1649, the trading post was upgraded into a fort. The fort was ceded with the entire Dutch Gold Coast to Britain in 1872. At this fort, the Trea...
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    Visit Fort Belknap, Texas

    Visit Fort Belknap, Texas

    Fort Belknap, located near Newcastle, Texas, was established in November 1851 by brevet Brigadier General William G. Belknap to protect the Texas frontier against raids by the Kiowa and Comanche. It was the northernmost fort in a line from the Rio Grande to the Red River. The fort functioned as a base of operations rather than as a fortified point, and it became the c...
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    Hike to Fort Berkeley, Antigua

    Hike to Fort Berkeley, Antigua

    The first reference to the defence of English Harbour occurs in 1704 when Fort Berkeley was listed as one of the twenty forts established around the coast of Antigua. Fort Berkeley is an incredible structure, defended by no less than 25 large cannons to protect English Harbour and the lands of Antigua. The trail starts at the Superyacht Dock, behind the Copper and Lu...
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    See Fort bij De Kwakel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    See Fort bij De Kwakel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    The Fort bij De Kwakel is a fort that is part of the Stelling van Amsterdam. It's located in the village of De Kwakel. It's one of four forts that form the linie Kudelstaart - Uithoorn. To the west is fort bij Kudelstaart, to the east you find fort aan de Drecht and fort bij Uithoorn. The fort was built in 1890. The main building consists of 18 rooms . The house of th...
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    See Fort Binġemma, Malta

    See Fort Binġemma, Malta

    Fort Binġemma (formerly written as Fort Bin Jema or Fort Bengemma, Maltese:Il-Fortizza ta' Binġemma) is a polygonal fort in the limits of Rabat, Malta. It was built between 1875 and 1878 by the British as part of the Victoria Lines. The fort has been illegally occupied by the Buttigieg family since 2009, who occasionally use it as a restaurant. It is set on a hill of ...
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    See Fort Bokar (Zvjezdan), Dubrovnik, Croatia

    See Fort Bokar (Zvjezdan), Dubrovnik, Croatia

    The Fort Bokar, often called "Zvjezdan", is considered to be amongst the most beautiful instances of harmonious and functional fortification architecture. Built as a two-story casemate fortress by Michelozzo from 1461 to 1463, while the city walls were being reconstructed, it stands in front of the medieval wall face protruding into space almost with its whole cylindr...
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    Visit Fort Bourguignon, Pula, Croatia

    Visit Fort Bourguignon, Pula, Croatia

    Fort Bourguignon (Fort Monsival) is one of many fortresses in Pula, Croatia that were built by the Austrian Empire in the second half of the 19th century. The chief reason for building the fortress was to protect the Pula harbour, the main Austrian naval port. It was one of the last fortresses built that used inner fortification rings, forming an arc within a radius o...
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    Visit Fort Bourtange, Groningen, Netherlands

    Visit Fort Bourtange, Groningen, Netherlands

    Fort Bourtange (Dutch:Vesting Bourtange) is a fort in the village of Bourtange, Groningen, Netherlands. It was built under orders of William the Silent and completed in 1593. Its original purpose was to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen, which was controlled by the Spaniards during the time of the Eighty Years' War. After experiencing its...
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    Visit Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Arizona

    Visit Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Arizona

    Fort Bowie was a 19th century outpost of the United States Army located in southeastern Arizona near the present day town of Willcox, Arizona. Fort Bowie was established in 1862 after a series of engagements between the U.S. Military and the Chiricahua Apaches. The most violent of which was the Battle of Apache Pass. The fort was named in honor of Colonel George Washi...
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    Visit Fort Calgary Historic Park, Calgary, Alberta

    Visit Fort Calgary Historic Park, Calgary, Alberta

    Fort Calgary was established in 1875 as Fort Brisebois by the North-West Mounted Police, located at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in what is now Calgary, Alberta. The site was purchased by the City of Calgary in 1974 and reopened in 1978 as a historic site and museum. The construction of the fort was initiated on April 10, 1875 by a federal order to force...
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    Visit Fort Caroline National Memorial, Florida

    Visit Fort Caroline National Memorial, Florida

    Fort Caroline was the first French colony in the present-day United States. Established in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, on June 22, 1564, under the leadership of René Goulaine de Laudonnière, it was intended as a refuge for the Huguenots. It lasted one year before being obliterated by the Spanish. The site is now operated as Fort Caroline National ...
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    Visit Fort Casey State Park (Whidbey Island), Washington

    Visit Fort Casey State Park (Whidbey Island), Washington

    Fort Casey State Park is located on Whidbey Island, in Island County, Washington state. It is a Washington state park and a historic district within the U.S. Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve. Admiralty Inlet was considered so strategic to the defense of Puget Sound in the 1890s that three forts, Fort Casey on Whidbey Island, Fort Flagler on Marrowstone Islan...
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