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    Visit Fort Gaines, Alabama

    Visit Fort Gaines, Alabama

    Fort Gaines is an historic fort on Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States. It was named for Edmund Pendleton Gaines. Established in 1821, it is best known for its role in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War. Exhibits include the huge anchor from the USS Hartford, Admiral David Farragut's flagship on which he gave his world famous command, "Damn the ...
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    Visit Fort George, Guernsey

    Visit Fort George, Guernsey

    Fort George is situated in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, and was built to become the main island military headquarters and to protect barracks to house the island garrison for the British Army, in place of Castle Cornet. Planned during the Anglo-French War (1778–83), construction started in 1780 and was completed in 1812. It was built to accommodate the increase i...
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    Visit Fort George & Highlanders' Museum, Scotland

    Visit Fort George & Highlanders' Museum, Scotland

    Fort George is a large 18th century fortress near Ardersier, to the north-east of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland. It was built to pacify the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, replacing aFort Georgein Inverness constructed after the 1715 Jacobite rising to control the area. The current fortress has never been attack...
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    Visit Fort George Ruins, Tortola

    Visit Fort George Ruins, Tortola

    Fort George is a colonial fort which was erected on the northeast edge of Road Town, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands above Baugher's Bay. The site is now a ruin. The original structure is believed by some to have been built at an unascertained date by the original Dutch settlers of the islands to protect slave pens that were built in Port Purcell below. It is li...
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    See Fort Good Hope (Fort Goedehoop), Ghana (UNESCO site)

    See Fort Good Hope (Fort Goedehoop), Ghana (UNESCO site)

    Fort Goede Hoop or Fort Good Hope is was a fort on the Dutch Gold Coast, established in 1667 near Senya Beraku. The fort was occupied between 1781 and 1785 by the British, as well as by the local Akim population between 1811 and 1816. In 1868, the fort was ceded to the United Kingdom in a large trade of forts between the Netherlands and Britain.
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    Visit Fort Gorges, Casco Bay, Maine

    Visit Fort Gorges, Casco Bay, Maine

    Fort Gorges is a former United States military fort built on Hog Island Ledge in Casco Bay, Maine. Built from 1858 to 1864, no battles were fought there and no troops were stationed there. Advancing military technology, including iron clad ships and long range guns, made the fort obsolete before it could be used. The fort is now a park, accessible only by boat. It was...
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    Visit Fort Grey, Guernsey

    Visit Fort Grey, Guernsey

    Fort Grey, colloquially known as the "cup and saucer", is a Martello tower located on a tidal rock in Rocquaine Bay in Saint Peter, Guernsey on the west coast of the island. The existing fort was built on the remnants of the old Chateau. Its white tower was originally built as a defence by the British in 1804 during the Napoleonic Wars, the builder was a local man, Th...
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    Visit Fort Hancock, New Jersey

    Visit Fort Hancock, New Jersey

    Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook, located in Middletown Township in Monmouth County, along the Atlantic coast of eastern New Jersey in the United States. This coastal artillery base played an important part in the defense of New York Harbor and played a role in the history of New Jersey. Between 1874 and 1919, Fort Hancock was operated in...
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    Visit Fort Hommet, Guernsey

    Visit Fort Hommet, Guernsey

    Fort Hommet (or Fort Houmet) is a fortification on Vazon Bay headland (or houmet in Guernésiais) in Castel, Guernsey. It is built on the site of fortifications that date back to 1680, and consists of a Martello tower from 1804, later additions during the Victorian Era, and bunkers and casemates that the Germans constructed during World War II. In 1680 it is rec...
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    See Fortifications of Longwy, France (UNESCO site)

    See Fortifications of Longwy, France (UNESCO site)

    Longwy is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. Longwy has historically been an industrial center of the Lorraine iron mining district. The town is known for its artistic glazed pottery. Longwy initially belonged to Lotharingia. After the division of that kingdom, the town became part of Upper Lorraine and ultimately the Duchy of Bar....
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    Visit Fortín San Juan de la Cruz (El Cañuelo), Puerto Rico (UNESCO site)

    Visit Fortín San Juan de la Cruz (El Cañuelo), Puerto Rico (UNESCO site)

    Fortín San Juan de la Cruz (Fort Saint John of the Cross), better known as el Cañuelo, is located on Isla de Cabras, Puerto Rico. The fort is part of the San Juan National Historic Site, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and on the National Register of Historic Places. One cannot enter the fort, but one may walk around it. This fort was ori...
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    Visit Fortín Solano, Puerto Cabello, Venezuela

    Visit Fortín Solano, Puerto Cabello, Venezuela

    Fortín Solano is an eighteenth-century colonial fortification overlooking Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. With the Castillo San Felipe, an earlier fort built at sea level, it formed part of a complex of fortifications designed to protect Puerto Cabello and its important harbour from naval attacks. It was constructed c. 1766 by order of Don José Solano ...
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    Visit Fort James, Antigua

    Visit Fort James, Antigua

    Fort James is a fort at the entrance to the harbour of St. John's, Antigua. The fort was built in 1706 to guard St. John's harbour and is one of the many forts built by the British in the 18th century. It is located on a headland overlooking the town northwesterly. A powder magazine, several cannons and the foundation of the fort's wall remain. The main attraction to...
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    Visit Fort James, Ghana

    Visit Fort James, Ghana

    Fort James is located in Accra, Ghana. It was built by the Royal African Company of England as a trading post for both gold and slaves in 1673, where it joined the Dutch Fort Crêvecœur (1649), and the Danish Fort Christiansborg (1652). Fort James was likely named after James, Duke of York, who was Governor of the RAC at the time it was built and after whom...
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    See Fort James Jackson, Savannah, Georgia

    See Fort James Jackson, Savannah, Georgia

    Fort James Jackson (usually shortened to Fort Jackson) is a restored nineteenth-century fort located one mile east of Savannah, Georgia, on the Savannah River. It hosts the Fort Jackson Maritime Museum. Fort Jackson was constructed between 1808 and 1812 to protect the city of Savannah from attack by sea. During the American Civil War, it became one of three Confederat...
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