Fortitude (disambiguation)
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Fortitude may refer to:
- Fortitude, one of the Four Cardinal Virtues of the Catholic Church
- Fortitude (ship)Fortitude (ship)Fortitude was a sailing ship. In 1848-9, she carried free immigrants to Brisbane, Australia.Captained by John Christmas, she departed Gravesend on 14 September 1848, arriving Moreton Bay on 21 January 1849. Fortitude Valley is named in her honor....
, a sailing ship that carried free immigrants to Australia in 1849- Fortitude Valley, a section of Brisbane named for that ship
- Operation FortitudeOperation FortitudeOperation Fortitude was the codename for a World War II military deception employed by the Allied nations as part of an overall deception strategy during the build up to the 1944 Normandy Landings...
, a World War II deception operation, carried out to hide the timing, location and other details of Operation Overlord. - Fortitude, a fictional rune word in the role-playing game Diablo II: Lord of DestructionDiablo II: Lord of DestructionDiablo II: Lord of Destruction is an expansion pack for the hack and slash action role-playing game Diablo II...
- Fortitude (play)Fortitude (play)Fortitude was written by Kurt Vonnegut in 1968. The brief [19 page] play relates to the issues of robotics and the ethical dilemmas of the "cyborg's rights." It was featured in the anthology, Human-Machines: An Anthology of Stories About Cyborgs. The story was also featured in the 1991...
, a short work by Kurt Vonnegut written in 1968, an Admiralty tugboat in service from 1947-62