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    Visit Fort Ballance, Wellington, New Zealand

    Visit Fort Ballance, Wellington, New Zealand

    Fort Ballance is a former coastal artillery battery on Point Gordon on Wellington's Miramar Peninsula. Built in 1885 following fears of an impending war with Russia, Fort Ballance is one of the best preserved of a string of nineteenth century coastal fortifications constructed to protect New Zealand from naval attack. In 1885, the Government, reluctantly acknowledging...
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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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    Visit Fort Barry, Marin Headlands, California

    Visit Fort Barry, Marin Headlands, California

    Fort Barry is a former United States Army installation on the West Coast of the United States, located in the Marin Headlands of Marin County, California, north of San Francisco. Opened 109 years ago in 1908, the fort was part of the Coast Artillery Corps and operated throughout the 20th century, before its closure and eventual transfer to the National Park Servi...
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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 Bedford, Ascension Island, St. Helena

    Visit Fort Bedford, Ascension Island, St. Helena

    Fort Bedford was the third and last fort to be built on Ascension Island on the hill overlooking the town called Cross Hill. Fort Bedford, which dates from 1903, still has some Victorian cannons, as well as a pair of BL 5.5 inch Mark I naval guns that were originally fitted to HMS Hood. These guns were used to repel a German attack by U-124 on 9 December 1941 during W...
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    Visit Fort Beekenburg, Caracas Bay, Willemstad, Curacao

    Visit Fort Beekenburg, Caracas Bay, Willemstad, Curacao

    A free historic fort that is open to all. The Fort has been the site of numerous battles in the early 1800's. Nicely restored with even some replacement cannons that the navy apparently flew in by helicopter. You can climb all the way to the top for an outstanding view of the surrounding area.
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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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    Visit Fort Blakeley Battlefield, Alabama

    Visit Fort Blakeley Battlefield, Alabama

    The Battle of Fort Blakeley took place from April 2 to April 9, 1865, in Baldwin County, Alabama, about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Spanish Fort, Alabama, as part of the Mobile Campaign of the American Civil War. At the time, Blakeley, Alabama, had been the county seat of Baldwin County. The Battle of Blakeley was the final major battle of the Civil War, with surrender ...
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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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    Hike to Fort Bottom Ruin, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

    Hike to Fort Bottom Ruin, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

    Constructed roughly 1,000 years ago, Fort Bottom Ruin remains one of the more dramatic reminders of ancestral Puebloan culture along the Green River. It is located near Hardscrabble Camp on the White Rim Road in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. The trial is 3-4 miles round trip (has a few different sources).
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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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