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This is a list for articles on notable historic forts which may or may not be under current active use by a military. There are also many towns named after a Fort, the largest being Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the List of United States cities by population in the United States and the fifth-largest city within the state of Texas. Situated in and a cultural gateway into the Western United States, the city covers nearly in Tarrant County, Texas and Denton County, Texas counties, serving as the county seat for Tarrant County....
, USA.

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Liège (city)

Li?ge is a major Walloon Region city and Municipalities in Belgium in Belgium located in the Provinces of Belgium of Li?ge , of which it is the administrative capital....
 (1914, clockwise from N, right bank of Meuse
Meuse

Meuse is a departments of France in northeast France, named after the Meuse River....
 River)



Liège

Liège (1940)



Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....



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This is a list for articles on notable historic forts which may or may not be under current active use by a military. There are also many towns named after a Fort, the largest being Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the List of United States cities by population in the United States and the fifth-largest city within the state of Texas. Situated in and a cultural gateway into the Western United States, the city covers nearly in Tarrant County, Texas and Denton County, Texas counties, serving as the county seat for Tarrant County....
, USA.

Australia

Sydney Harbour fortifications
  • Bradleys Head Fortification Complex
    Bradleys Head Fortification Complex

    The Bradleys Head Fortification Complex is a small fort located on the northern side of Taronga Park Zoo that formed part of a total Sydney Harbour defences and recalls a period when the colony of New South Wales became increasingly aware of its isolation and wealth....
  • Beehive Casemate
    Beehive Casemate

    File:Inside beehive casemate.jpgFile:Chowderbay-forts0042.JPGThe Beehive Casemate is an historical fortification located on the banks of Obelisk Bay, in Sydney Harbour....
  • Middle Head Fortifications
    Middle Head Fortifications

    File:RML gun Middle Head 1891 AWM P00991.031.jpgThe Middle Head Fortification is located at the end of Old Fort Road, Middle Head, Mosman, New South Wales New South Wales....
  • Lower Georges Heights Commanding Position
    Lower Georges Heights Commanding Position

    The Lower Georges Heights Commanding Position is located in the urban locality of Georges Heights, New South Wales in the suburb of Mosman, on the shores of Port Jackson, Sydney, Australia....
  • Georges Head Battery
    Georges Head Battery

    The Georges Head Battery is located on Georges Head, in the suburb of Mosman, New South Wales in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Georges Head battery is one of three forts in the area that were built for the purpose of defending the outer harbor....
  • Fort Kirribilli
    Admiralty House, Sydney

    Admiralty House is the official Sydney residence of the Governor-General of Australia. It is located in Kirribilli, New South Wales, on the northern foreshore of Port Jackson adjacent to Kirribilli House, which is the Sydney residence of the Prime Minister of Australia....
  • Fort Denison
  • Fort Macquarie
    Fort Macquarie

    Fort Macquarie was a square castellated battlement fort built at Bennelong Point, Sydney, Australia, where the Sydney Opera House now stands....
  • Steel Point Battery
Other fortifications
  • Ben Buckler Gun Battery, North Bondi
    Ben Buckler Gun Battery, North Bondi

    The Ben Buckler Gun Battery is a fortified gun emplacement of the late-Victorian period located in the North Bondi, New South Wales locality of Ben Buckler, Sydney Australia....
  • Bare Island Fort
  • Breakwater Battery
    Breakwater Battery

    File:Breakwater battery1.5.jpgBreakwater Battery, was a coastal defence battery at Port Kembla, Australia during World War II.Constructed in 1939 to provide protection for Port Kembla from enemy shipping and submarines....
  • Drummond Battery
    Drummond Battery

    File:Positioin 2 drummond battery.jpgDrummond Battery was a counter bombardment battery at Port Kembla, Australia during World War II.File:Drummond battery Win television1.jpg...
  • Flagstaff Hill Fort?
  • Fort Banks
  • Fort Glanville
    Fort Glanville Conservation Park

    Fort Glanville Conservation Park is a registered heritage conservation area in Semaphore South, South Australia, a seaside suburb of Adelaide. It incorporates Australia's best preserved and most functional 19th century fort, Fort Glanville, and is a registered heritage site, both within South Australia and Australia wide....
  • Fort Franklin, Australia
  • Fort Lytton
    Fort Lytton National Park

    Fort Lytton is a national park in Queensland , 13 km northeast of Brisbane. It is located near the mouth of the Brisbane River on the southern bank....
  • Fort Pearce
    Fort Pearce

    Fort Pearce is a former defensive facility occupying part of Point Nepean, Victoria, Victoria , Australia. It was part of a network of fortifications, commanded from Fort Queenscliff, protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip....
  • Fort Philip
  • Fort Nepean
    Fort Nepean

    Fort Nepean is a former defensive facility occupying part of Point Nepean, Victoria, Victoria , Australia. It was part of a network of fortifications, commanded from Fort Queenscliff, protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip....
  • Fort Queenscliff
    Fort Queenscliff

    Fort Queenscliff, in Victoria , Australia, dates from 1860 when an open battery was constructed on Shortland's Bluff to defend the entrance to Port Phillip Bay....
  • Fort Scratchley
    Fort Scratchley

    Fort Scratchley was a coastal defence installation at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia....
  • Illowra Battery
    Illowra Battery

    Illowra Battery was an Australian Army coastal battery at Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia during World War II. It was also known as Hill 60 Battery....
  • Malabar Battery
    Malabar Battery

    Malabar Battery was a coastal defence battery built in 1943 during World War II at Malabar Headland , Malabar, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia....
  • Smiths Hill Fort
    Smiths Hill Fort

    File:Smiths hill fort 1.jpgSmiths Hill Fort was a fort at North Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. The fort was also known as Wollongong Fort....
  • Swan Island Fort
  • Fort Wallace
  • Henry Head Fort
    Henry Head Battery

    The Henry Head Battery is located on the northern side of the entrance to Botany Bay at Henry Head, La Perouse, New South Wales, Australia. ...
  • South Channel Fort
    South Channel Fort

    South Channel Fort is a 0.7 ha artificial island in southern Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia, 6 km north-east of the town of Sorrento, Victoria....
  • Signal Hill Battery
    Signal Hill Battery

    File:Signal hill bunker underground watsons bay.jpgFile:1.6 signal hill bunker underground watsons bay.jpgThe Signal Hill Battery was constructed in 1892-3 at Watsons Bay, New South Wales and is adjacent to the Signal Hill Lighthouse on Old South Head Road....


Bahrain

  • Qalat Al Bahrain
  • Arad Fort
    Arad Fort

    Arad Fort is a 15th century fort in Arad, Bahrain, Bahrain. It was built in a typical Arab style.Close to the Bahrain International Airport, the fort has been extensively renovated and presents a magnificent sight when it is illuminated at night....
  • Riffa Fort
    Riffa Fort

    Built by Sh.Salman Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, in 1812, Riffa Fort or it is now named , in the Kingdom of Bahrain offers a splendid view across the Hunanaiya valley....


Belarus

  • Babruysk fortress
    Babruysk fortress

    The Babruysk Fortress is a historic fortress in the city of Babruysk, Belarus that was built between 1810 and 1836. It is one of the best surviving examples of fortification architecture and design in the first half of the 19th century....
  • Brest fortress
    Hero-Fortress

    Hero-Fortress is the honorary title awarded to the Soviet Brest Fortress, now in Brest, Belarus in 1965 for Siege of Brest during the very first weeks of the Great Patriotic War of 1941 to 1945....


Belgium


Antwerp (Province of -)
Antwerp (province)

Antwerp is the northernmost provinces of regions in Belgium both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium. It borders on the Netherlands and the Belgian provinces of Limburg , Flemish Brabant and East Flanders....


Antwerp
Antwerp

||-||-||-||}Antwerp is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions....
 (1914, external defenses, clockwise from N, right bank of Scheldt
Scheldt

The Scheldt is a 350 km long river in northern France, western Belgium and the southwestern part of the Netherlands. Its name is derived from an adjective corresponding to Old English sceald "shallow", English language shoal, Low German schol, Frisian languages skol, and Swedish language sk?ll "thin"....
 River, toponymy as per maps)

  • Stabroeck
    Stabroek

    Stabroek is a municipality located in the Belgium province of Antwerp . The municipality comprises the towns of Hoevenen and Stabroek proper. On December 31 2006 Stabroek had a total population of 17,618....
     (Fort de -)
  • Berendrecht (Redoute de -)
  • Smoutakker (Redoute de -)
  • Ertbrand (Fort de -)
  • Capellen (Redoute de -)
  • Brasschaet
    Brasschaat

    Brasschaat is a Municipalities in Belgium located in Flemish Region, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flanders Provinces of Belgium of Antwerp ....
     (Fort de -)
  • Drijhoek (Redoute de -)
  • Schooten
    Schoten

    Schoten is a Municipalities in Belgium located in the Belgium Provinces of Belgium of Antwerp . The municipality only comprises the town of Schoten proper....
     (Fort de -)
  • Audaen (Redoute de -)
  • 's Gravenwezel (Fort de -)
  • Schilde
    Schilde

    Schilde is a municipality located in the Belgium province of Antwerp . The municipality comprises the towns of Schilde proper and 's Gravenwezel....
     (Redoute de -)
  • Oeleghem (Fort de -)
  • Massenhoven (Redoute de -)
  • Broechem (Fort de -)
  • Kessel (Fort de -)
  • Lier
    Lier, Belgium

    Lier is a municipality located in the Belgium province of Antwerp . The municipality comprises the city of Lier proper and the village of Koningshooikt....
    re (Fort de -)
  • Tallaert (Redoute de -)
  • Koningshooykt (Fort de -)
  • Boschbeek (Redoute de -)
  • Dorpveld (Redoute de -)
  • Wavre-Sainte-Catherine
    Sint-Katelijne-Waver

    Sint-Katelijne-Waver is a municipality located in the Belgium province of Antwerp . The municipality comprises the towns of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver and Sint-Katelijne-Waver proper....
     (Fort de -)
  • Chemin de fer (Redoute du -)
  • Waelhem (Fort de -)
  • Breendonck (Fort de -)
    Fort Breendonk

    Fort Breendonk is a fortification built in 1906 as part of the second ring of defenses around the city of Antwerp . Originally one in a chain of fortresses constructed to defend Belgium against a German attack, Breendonk was near the Breendonk, about 12 miles southwest of Antwerp....
  • Letterheid (Redoute de -)
  • Liezele (Fort de -)
  • Puers
    Puurs

    Puurs is a Municipalities of Belgium located in the Belgium province of Antwerp . It is located in the Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Breendonk, Liezele, Kalfort, Ruisbroek and Puurs proper....
     (Redoute de -)
  • Bornhem
    Bornem

    Bornem is a municipality located in the Belgium province of Antwerp . The municipality comprises the towns of Bornem proper, Hingene, Mariekerke and Weert, Belgium....
     (Fort de -)
  • Steendorp (Fort de -)
  • Lauwershoek (Redoute de -)
  • Landmolen (Redoute de -)
  • Haesdonck (Fort de -)


Antwerp (1914, internal defenses, clockwise from N, right bank of Scheldt River, toponymy as per contemporary maps)

  • Saint Philippe (Fort -)
  • Oorderen (Redoute d' -)
  • Wilmarsdonck
  • Eeckeren
  • Merxem (Fort de -)
  • Fort n° 1
  • Fort n° 2
  • Fort n° 3
  • Fort n° 4
  • Fort n° 5
  • Fort n° 6
  • Fort n° 7
  • Fort n° 8
  • Cruybeke (Fort de -)
  • Zwyndrecht
    Zwijndrecht, Belgium

    Zwijndrecht is both a village and a municipality located in the Flemish region province of Antwerp , in Belgium. As well as Zwijndrecht proper, the municipality includes the villages of Burcht....
     (Fort de -)
  • Sainte Marie (Fort -)
  • La Perle (Fort -)


Antwerp
  • Noord Kasteel


Liège (Province of -)
Liège (province)

Li?ge is the easternmost Provinces of regions in Belgium of the Wallonia, in Belgium. It is predominantly French language speaking, with a German language speaking minority living along the eastern border with Germany and Luxembourg....

Liège
Liège (city)

Li?ge is a major Walloon Region city and Municipalities in Belgium in Belgium located in the Provinces of Belgium of Li?ge , of which it is the administrative capital....
 (1914, clockwise from N, right bank of Meuse
Meuse

Meuse is a departments of France in northeast France, named after the Meuse River....
 River)

  • Barchon (Fort de -)
  • Évegnée (Fort de -)
  • Fléron
    Fléron

    Fl?ron is a Wallonia municipality located in the Belgium province of Li?ge . On January 1 2006 Fl?ron had a total population of 16,088. The total area is 13.72 km? which gives a population density of 1,172 inhabitants per km?....
     (Fort de -)
  • Chaudfontaine
    Chaudfontaine

    Chaudfontaine is a Wallonia municipality located in the Belgium province of Li?ge . On January 1 2006 Chaudfontaine had a total population of 21,012....
     (Fort de -)
  • Embourg (Fort de -)
  • Boncelles (Fort de -)
  • Flémalle
    Flémalle

    Fl?malle is a Wallonia municipality located in the Belgium province of Li?ge . On January 1, 2006 Fl?malle had a total population of 25,140. The total area is 36.68 km? which gives a population density of 685 inhabitants per km?....
     (Fort de -)
  • Hollogne (Fort de -)
  • Loncin (Fort de -)
  • Lantin (Fort de -)
  • Liers (Fort de -)
  • Pontisse (Fort de -)


Liège
  • La Chartreuse (Fort de -)
  • Citadelle


Liège (1940)

  • Eben-Emael (Fort d'-)
  • Neufchâteau (Fort de -)
  • Battice (Fort de -)
  • Pepinster
    Pepinster

    Pepinster is a Wallonia municipality of Belgium in Liege . On January 1, 2006 Pepinster had a total population of 9,560. The total area is 24.79 km? which gives a population density of 386 inhabitants per km?....
     (Fort de -)


Namur (Province of -)
Namur (province)

Namur is a Provinces of regions in Belgium of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Wallonia provinces of Hainaut , Walloon Brabant, Li?ge and Luxembourg in Belgium, and on France....


Namur
Namur (city)

Namur is a city and Municipalities in Belgium in Wallonia, in southern Belgium. It is both the capital of the Provinces of Belgium of Namur and of the Walloon Region ....
 (1914, clockwise from E, right bank of Meuse River)

  • Maizeret (Fort de -)
  • Andoy (Fort d'-)
  • Dave (Fort de -)
  • Saint Héribert (Fort de -)
  • Malonne (Fort de -)
  • Suarlée (Fort de -)
  • Émines (Fort d'-)
  • Cognelée (Fort de -)
  • Marchovelette (Fort de -)


Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....


  • Monterey (Fort -)


Canada

Many places in Canada which bear the name "Fort" were never military establishments. Many were simply stockade
Stockade

A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls made of logs placed side by side vertically with the tops sharpened to provide security....
s, log enclosures for fur trading post
Trading post

A trading post is a place where the Trade of product takes place. The preferred travel route to a trading post, or between trading posts, is known as a trade route....
s of the Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and is one of the oldest in the world. The company was incorporated by British royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay; it is now domiciled in Canada and has adopted the mo...
 or the North West Company
North West Company

The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal, Quebec from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become Western Canada....
. Many in the West were also originally police outposts setup to by the North West Mounted Police prior to white settlement of the area. See also :Category:Forts in Canada

Alberta

  • Fort Assiniboine
    Fort Assiniboine

    Fort Assiniboine is an historic Hudson's Bay Company trading post in Alberta, Canada situated on the Athabasca River at Alberta Highway 33, and lying north-west of Edmonton....
     (HBC)
  • Fort Calgary
    Fort Calgary

    Fort Calgary was established in 1875 as Fort Brisebois by the North-West Mounted Police, located at the confluence of the Bow River and Elbow River rivers in what is now Calgary, Alberta....
     (NWMP)
  • Fort Chipewyan
    Fort Chipewyan, Alberta

    Fort Chipewyan is one of the oldest European settlements in the province of Alberta, Canada. The settlement was established by the North West Company when it setup a trading post there in 1788....
     (NWC)
  • Fort Edmonton
    Fort Edmonton

    Fort Edmonton was the name of a series of trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1795 to 1891, all of which were located in central Alberta, Canada....
     (HBC)
  • Fort Kent
  • Fort MacKay
    Fort MacKay, Alberta

    Fort MacKay is a Hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located in the Wood Buffalo, Alberta, at the northern end of Alberta Highway 63, north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, at an elevation of ....
  • Fort Macleod (NWMP)
  • Fort McMurray
    Fort McMurray, Alberta

    Fort McMurray is a community within the Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Alberta. It was a city between 1980 and April 1, 1995, when it was merged with Improvement District No....
     (HBC)
  • Fort Saskatchewan (NWMP)
  • Fort Vermilion
    Fort Vermilion, Alberta

    Fort Vermilion is a Hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada, located on the banks of the Peace River . Established in 1788, it shares the title of oldest European settlement in Alberta with Fort Chipewyan, Alberta....
     (NWC)
  • Fort Vicotria
    Fort Victoria (Alberta)

    Fort Victoria, near present-day Smoky Lake, Alberta, Alberta, was established by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1864 in Canada as a trading post with the local Cree First Nations....
     (HBC)
  • Fort Whoop-Up
    Fort Whoop-Up

    Fort Whoop-Up was the nickname given to a whiskey trading post, officially Fort Hamilton, near what is now Lethbridge, Alberta. During the late 1800s, the post served as a centre for various illegal activities....
      (American whiskey traders)
  • Fort Walsh
    Fort Walsh

    Fort Walsh National Historic Site of Canada is a part of the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park. As a National historic site the area possesses national historical significance....
     (NWMP)
  • Rocky Mountain House (HBC & NWC) Now a National Historic Site.


British Columbia

  • Fort Langley
  • Fort Nelson
    Fort Nelson, British Columbia

    Fort Nelson is a town of approximately 5000 residents in British Columbia's northeastern corner. It is the seat, and only municipality in the Northern Rockies Regional District, British Columbia....
  • Fort St. James
  • Fort St. John
    Fort St. John

    Fort St. John may refer to:* Fort St. John, British Columbia, a city in British Columbia, Canada* Spanish Fort, New Orleans, also known as Fort St....
  • Fort Steele
  • Little Fort


Manitoba

  • Fort Bourbon
    Fort Bourbon

    Fort Bourbon was one of the important northern forts that Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la V?rendrye had built during his long tenure as commandant of the western forts....
  • ?Fort Dauphin
    Fort Dauphin

    Fort Dauphin can refer to:* T?lanaro* Fort Dauphin , in Manitoba* Fort-Libert? in Haiti...
  • ??Fort Douglas
    Fort Douglas (Canada)

    Fort Douglas was a fort of the Hudson's Bay Company that was built by Scotland and Ireland settlers in 1812 in what is today Winnipeg, Manitoba....
  • Fort Ellice
    Fort Ellice

    Fort Ellice was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post built in 1831 in Rupert's Land near the junction of the Assiniboine River and Qu'Appelle River rivers....
  • Fort La Reine
    Fort La Reine

    Fort La Reine, one of the forts of the Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la V?rendrye western expansion, was built in 1738. It was located on the Assiniboine River where present day Portage La Prairie stands....
  • Lower Fort Garry
    Lower Fort Garry

    Lower Fort Garry was built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the western bank of the Red River of the North, twenty miles north of the original Fort Garry, which is now in Winnipeg, Manitoba....
  • Upper Fort Garry
    Fort Garry

    Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red River of the North and Assiniboine River rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba....
  • Fort Maurepas (Canada)
  • Fort Paskoya
    Fort Paskoya

    Probably during the winter of 1741 -1742, La Verendrye decided to build a fort at the site chosen by Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La V?rendrye, at Cedar Lake, as shown on the map of 1740....
  • Fort Rouge
  • Fort Prince of Wales
    Prince of Wales Fort

    The Prince of Wales Fort is a historic fort on Hudson Bay across the Churchill River from Churchill, Manitoba, Canada....
  • York Factory
    York Factory, Manitoba

    York Factory was a town located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba, Canada at the mouth of the Hayes River, approximately 100 km SSE of Churchill, Manitoba....


New Brunswick

  • Fort Beauséjour
  • Fort Gaspéreau
  • Fort Howe
    Fort Howe

    Fort Howe is the site of an 18th and 19th century British Army fortification built in present-day New Brunswick, Canada at the mouth of the Saint John River where it empties into the Bay of Fundy....
  • Fort La Tour
  • Fort Monckton
  • Fort Nashwaak
  • St. Andrews Blockhouse


Newfoundland and Labrador

  • Fort Amherst
  • Fort Anne
  • Fort Carlton
  • Fort Cartwright
  • Fort Charles, Labrador
  • Fort Charles, St. John's
  • Fort Erie
  • Fort Frederick
  • Fort George
  • Fort Greville
  • Fort Kenamu
  • Fort le Vieux
  • Fort Louis
  • Fort McAndrew
  • Fort Meigs
  • Fort Michikamau
  • Fort Nascopie
  • Fort Naskapis
  • Fort Pepperrell
    Fort Pepperrell

    Pepperrell Air Force Base, previously known as Fort Pepperrell, was a former United States military base located in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada which operated from 1941-1960....
  • Fort Pitt
  • Fort Point
    Fort Point, Newfoundland and Labrador

    Fort Point, also known as Admiral's Point, is a point of land situated on the western shore to the entrance of Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada....
  • Fort Red Bay
  • Fort Rigolet
  • Fort Royal
  • Fort St. George
  • Fort Sheffield
  • Fort Smith
  • Fort Townsend
  • Fort Waldegrave
  • Fort Wallace
  • Fort William
  • Fort Winokapau
  • Fort York
  • Signal Hill
    Signal Hill, Newfoundland and Labrador

    Signal Hill is a hill which overlooks the city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.Because of its strategic placement overlooking the harbour, fortifications have been placed on the hill since the mid 1600s....


Northwest Territories

  • Fort Confidence, Northwest Territories
    Fort Confidence, Northwest Territories

    Fort Confidence, located at the mouth of the Dease River on the eastern tip of the Dease Arm of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, was a Hudson's Bay Company post built in 1837 by Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson during exploration of the Great Bear Lake and Coppermine River area, serving as a quarters for two winters....
  • Fort Franklin, Northwest Territories
    Deline, Northwest Territories

    The Charter Community of D?line is located in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada on the western shore of Great Bear Lake and is northwest of Yellowknife....
     (now Deline)
  • Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories
    Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories

    Fort Good Hope is a charter community in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located on a peninsula between Jackfish Creek and the east bank of the Mackenzie River, about 145 km northwest of Norman Wells, Northwest Territories....
  • Fort Liard, Northwest Territories
    Fort Liard, Northwest Territories

    Fort Liard is a Hamlet in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located 37 km north of the British Columbia border. It became accessible by road in 1984 with the completion of the Liard Highway ...
  • Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories
    Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories

    Fort McPherson is a Hamlet located in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located on the east bank of the Peel River and is 121 km south of Inuvik, Northwest Territories on the Dempster Highway....
  • Fort Norman, Northwest Territories
    Tulita, Northwest Territories

    Tulita, meaning "where the rivers/waters meet", is a Hamlet in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Formerly known as Fort Norman until 1 January 1996....
     (now Tulita)
  • Fort Providence, Northwest Territories
    Fort Providence, Northwest Territories

    Fort Providence is a Hamlet in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Located west of Great Slave Lake, it has all-weather road connections by way of the Yellowknife Highway branch off the Mackenzie Highway, and plans are currently progressing to build a bridge near Fort Providence over the Mackenzie River, to replace the...
  • Fort Reliance, Northwest Territories
    Fort Reliance, Northwest Territories

    Fort Reliance is located on the east arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. It was originally built in 1833 by George Back during the Arctic Land Expedition to the Arctic Ocean via the Back River....
  • Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories
    Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories

    Fort Resolution is a "settlement corporation" in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The community is situated at the mouth of the Slave River, on the shore of Great Slave Lake, and at the end of Fort Resolution Highway ....
  • Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories
    Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories

    Fort Simpson is a village in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The community is located on an island at the confluence of the Mackenzie River and Liard Rivers....
  • Fort Smith, Northwest Territories
    Fort Smith, Northwest Territories

    Fort Smith is a town in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located in the southeastern portion of the Northwest Territories, on the Slave River and adjacent to the NWT/Alberta border....
  • Old Fort Providence, Northwest Territories
    Old Fort Providence, Northwest Territories

    Old Fort Providence, located near the mouth of Yellowknife Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada, was one of the first fur trading outposts on Great Slave Lake....


Nova Scotia

  • Fort Anne (Nova Scotia)
  • Fort Dauphin (Nova Scotia)
  • Fort Edward
    Fort Edward (Nova Scotia)

    Fort Edward is a National Historic Site in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada. The most notable feature of the fort is a blockhouse, which, apart from earthworks, is all that remains of a more substantial structure first erected in 1750 by Major Charles Lawrence, the officers quarters and barracks having burned....
  • Fort Lawrence (Nova Scotia)
  • Fortress of Louisbourg
    Fortress of Louisbourg

    The Fortress of Louisbourg is a Canada National Historic Site and the location of a partial reconstruction of an 18th century France fortress at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia....
  • Fort Sainte Anne
    Fort Sainte Anne

    Fort Sainte Anne may refer to:...
  • Fort Petrie
  • Fort Ochiltree
  • Scotsfort
  • Charlesfort
  • Habitation at Port-Royal
    Habitation at Port-Royal

    The Habitation at Port-Royal was an early French colonial settlement and is presently a National Historic Site located at Port Royal, Nova Scotia in the Canada province of Nova Scotia....
  • Fort Ste. Pierre
  • Fort Dorchester
  • Fort William, Nova Scotia
  • Fort Rosemar
  • Chedabuctou Fort
  • Fort William Augustus
  • Lawrencetown Fort
  • Fort Ste. Marie De Grace
  • Liverpool Fort
  • Gunning Cove Fort
  • Fort McNutt
  • Fort Ste. Louis (Nova Scotia)
  • Fort Mohawk
  • Cornwallis Fort
  • Falmouth Fort
  • Fort Ellis
    Fort Ellis

    File:SoldiersAtFortEllisMontanaTerritory1871.jpgFort Ellis was an early United States Army outpost established August 27, 1867 to the eastern side of present-day Bozeman, Montana....
  • Fort Belcher
  • Fort Grunt


Halifax (Nova Scotia)
  • Citadel Hill
    Citadel Hill

    Citadel Hill is a glacial drumlin located on the Halifax Peninsula. It measures approximately 80 metres above sea level and affords a commanding view of the entrance to Halifax Harbour, as well as nearby Georges Island and McNabs Island....
  • Fort Massey
  • Fort Ogilvy
  • Fort Needham
  • Fort McAlpine
  • York Redoubt
    York Redoubt

    York Redoubt is a National Historic Site situated on a bluff overlooking the entrance to Halifax Harbour at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, originally constructed in 1793....
  • Fort Clarence
    Fort Clarence

    Fort Clarence is a now defunct fortification that was located in Rochester, Kent, Kent, England....
  • Fort Charlotte
    Fort Charlotte

    Fort Charlotte in the centre of Lerwick, Shetland, is a five sided artillery fort, with bastions on each corner.The first incarnation of the fort was built between 1652-3 during the First Anglo-Dutch War....
     - (Georges Island Fort)
  • Fort McNabb
  • Fort Hugonin
  • Fort Sackville
  • Fort Chebucto
  • Fort George
    Fort George

    Fort George may refer to:United Kingdom:* Fort George, Highland - a fortified garrison, constructed from 1748, near Inverness, Scotland* Fort George, Guernsey - the former garrison of St Peter Port, Guernsey, constructed from 1780...
  • Fort Coote
  • Fort Duncan
    Fort Duncan

    Fort Duncan was a U.S. Army post, set up to protect the first U.S. settlement on the Rio Grande near the current town of Eagle Pass, Texas.Fort Duncan was established on March 27, 1849, when Captain Sidney Burbank occupied the site with companies A, B, and F of the 1st Infantry Regiment ....
  • Herring Cove Fort
  • Sherbrook Tower
  • Prince of Wales Tower
  • Duke of Kent Tower
  • York Shore Battery
  • Grand Battery
    Grand Battery

    Grand Battery was a France artillery tactic of the Napoleonic wars. It involved massing all available Artillery battery into a single large, temporary one, and concentrating the firepower of their guns at a single point in the enemy's lines....
  • Point Pleasant Battery
  • Cambridge Battery
  • North West Arm Battery
  • Chain Rock Battery
  • Ives Point Battery
  • Greenbank Battery
  • Governors Battery
  • Narrows Battery
  • Connaught Battery
  • South Battery
  • Middle Battery
  • North Battery
  • Chebucto Head Battery
  • Devils Point Battery
  • Strawberry Battery
  • Penninsular Blockhouses


Nunavut

  • Fort Ross
    Somerset Island and Fort Ross

    In the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Somerset Island is a large island across the 2km wide Bellot Strait from the Boothia Peninsula in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada....


Ontario

  • Fort Amherstburg
    Fort Amherstburg

    Fort Amherstburg was built by the Royal Canadian Volunteers at the mouth of the Detroit River to replace Fort Detroit, which United Kingdom was required to cede to the United States of America in 1796 as a result of the Jay Treaty....
     - Amherstburg
    Amherstburg, Ontario

    Amherstburg is a Canadian town near the mouth of the Detroit River in Essex County, Ontario, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately 25 kilometres south of the US city of Detroit, Michigan....
  • Fort Erie
    Fort Erie

    Fort Erie National Historic Site was the first Great Britain fort to be constructed as part of a network developed after the Seven Years' War was concluded by the Treaty of Paris at which time all of New France had been ceded to Great Britain....
     - Fort Erie
    Fort Erie, Ontario

    Fort Erie is a town on the Niagara River in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Ontario, Canada. It is located directly across the river from Buffalo, New York....
  • Fort Frederick
    Fort Frederick (Kingston)

    Fort Frederick is a historic military installation in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The Fort consists of Earthworks surrounding a Martello tower....
     - Kingston
    Kingston, Ontario

    Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St. Lawrence River and the Thousand Islands begin....
  • Fort Frontenac
    Fort Frontenac

    Fort Frontenac was a French trading post and military fort built in 1673 in what is now Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It was strategically positioned at the mouth of the Cataraqui River where the St....
     - Kingston
    Kingston, Ontario

    Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St. Lawrence River and the Thousand Islands begin....
  • Fort George
    Fort George

    Fort George may refer to:United Kingdom:* Fort George, Highland - a fortified garrison, constructed from 1748, near Inverness, Scotland* Fort George, Guernsey - the former garrison of St Peter Port, Guernsey, constructed from 1780...
     - Fort George
    Fort George, Ontario

    Fort George National Historic Site is a historic military structure at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, that was the scene of several battles during the War of 1812....
  • Fort Henry
    Fort Henry, Ontario

    Fort Henry is located in Kingston, Ontario, Ontario, Canada on Point Henry, a strategic point located near the mouth of the Cataraqui River where it flows into the St....
     - Kingston
    Kingston, Ontario

    Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St. Lawrence River and the Thousand Islands begin....
  • Fort Kaministiquia
    Fort Kaministiquia

    Fort Kaministiquia, located in what is now Northwestern Ontario, Canada, was founded in 1717 by French merchants led by Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, and was to be the first in a series of forts reaching westward to expand trade....
     - Thunder Bay
    Thunder Bay

    Thunder Bay may refer to several things in North America's Great Lakes region....
  • Fort Malden
    Fort Malden

    Fort Malden was a fort that stood on the remains of Fort Amherstburg in Amherstburg, Ontario. The original fort was abandoned by the British/Canadians in 1813 when Southwest Ontario fell into American hands....
     - Amherstburg
    Amherstburg, Ontario

    Amherstburg is a Canadian town near the mouth of the Detroit River in Essex County, Ontario, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately 25 kilometres south of the US city of Detroit, Michigan....
  • Fort Matachewan
    Fort Matachewan

    Fort Matachewan was a trading post set up by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1867, and is located 8 km north of the of the town of Matachewan, Ontario....
     - Matachewan
    Matachewan, Ontario

    Matachewan is a small list of townships in Ontario in Northeastern Ontario, located at the end of Highway 66 .The town's main economy is based on mineral mining, mainly gold mine, with some tourism....
  • Fort Mississauga
    Fort Mississauga

    Fort Mississauga National Historic Site is a fort along the shore of Lake Ontario, not far from the Niagara River in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario....
     - Niagara-on-the-Lake
  • Fort Rouillé
    Fort Rouillé

    Fort Rouill? was a France trading post located in Toronto, Ontario, which was established around 1750 but abandoned in 1759. The fort was also called Fort Toronto....
     - also called Fort Toronto
  • Fort St. Pierre
    Fort St. Pierre

    Fort St. Pierre was the first La Verendrye fort built west of Fort Kaministiquia. It was built in 1731 in Canada when the first western commander started his explorations, fur trading and the search for the western sea....
     - Fort Frances
    Fort Frances, Ontario

    Fort Frances, Ontario is a town located in the Northwestern Ontario part of Ontario, Canada. Its population in 2006 was 8,103. It is in the Rainy River District, Ontario....
  • Fort Wellington
    Fort Wellington

    Fort Wellington National Historic Site is a historic Fortification located on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River at Prescott, Ontario. It was originally built in 1813 on land owned by Major Edward Jessup, a prominent Loyalist from Connecticut who was the founder of Prescott, Ontario in 1784....
     - Prescott
    Prescott, Ontario

    Prescott is a town of approximately 4,200 people on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada....
  • Fort William
    Fort William, Ontario

    Fort William was a city in Northern Ontario, located on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior. It amalgamated with Port Arthur, Ontario and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970....
     - Thunder Bay
    Thunder Bay

    Thunder Bay may refer to several things in North America's Great Lakes region....
  • Fort York
    Fort York

    Fort York is a historic site of military fortifications and related buildings on the west side of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The fort was built by the Kingdom of Great Britain British Army and Canadian militia troops in the late 1700s and early 1800s, to defend the settlement and the new capital of the Upper Canada region from the thr...
     and New Fort York
    New Fort York

    New Fort York was built to replace Toronto's original Fort York at the mouth of Garrison Creek as the primary military base for the settlement. Unlike the older fort, it was not made of wood....
     - Toronto
    Toronto

    Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
  • Fort Willow - Springwater
    Springwater, Ontario

    Springwater is a township in central Ontario, Canada in Simcoe County, Ontario near Barrie....


Prince Edward Island

  • Fort Amherst
  • Fort Edward


Quebec

  • Fort Chambly
    Fort Chambly

    Fort Chambly at the foot of the Chambly rapids on the Richelieu River in Quebec, Canada, was built by the French in 1711. It was the last of three forts to be built on the same site....
  • Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène
  • Fort Saint-Jean
    Fort Saint-Jean (Quebec)

    Fort Saint-Jean is a fortification in Quebec, built from 1666 to 1775. It is one of the oldest permanent military facilities in North America....
     in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
    Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec

    Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada about southeast of Montreal. It is situated on the west bank of the Richelieu River at the northernmost navigable point of Lake Champlain....
  • Citadelle of Quebec
    Citadelle of Quebec

    The Citadelle?the French name is used both in English and French?is a military installation and official residence located atop Cap Diamant, adjoining the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada....
  • Ïle-aux-Noix - Fort Lennox
  • Forts-de-Lévis


Saskatchewan

  • Fort Battleford
    Fort Battleford

    Fort Battleford was the sixth North-West Mounted Police fort to be established in the North-West Territories of Canada, and played a central role in the events of the North-West Rebellion of 1885....
  • Fort Carlton
    Fort Carlton

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  • Fort de la Corne
    Fort de la Corne

    Fort de la Corne was built in 1753 by Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne at the same time that the second Fort Paskoya was built. It was built a little lower than the Saskatchewan River Forks at the mouth of the Peonan Creek, a new establishment which originally bore the name of Fort des Prairies....
  • Fort Espérance
    Fort Espérance

    In 1787, Fort Esp?rance was constructed on the south side of the Qu'Appelle River near the present day Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. It was built by the North West Company and was one of the important pemmican forts for the Assiniboine River district....
  • Fort Le Jonquiere
    Fort Le Jonquiere

    Fort Le Jonqui?re was established in 1751 as part of the western commanders continued search for a route to the western sea. The commander at that time was Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, who had replaced Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la V?rendrye, and there is no doubt that he did send expeditions up the Saskatchewan River....
  • Fort Pitt
    Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan

    Fort Pitt is a fort built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company was a trading post on the North Saskatchewan River in Canada. It was built by Chief Factor John Rowand, previously of Fort Edmonton, in order to trade for buffalo hides, meat and pemmican....
  • Fort Qu'Appelle
    Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan

    Fort Qu'Appelle is a town located in the Qu'Appelle Valley in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, originally established as a Hudson's Bay Company trading post in 1852....
  • Fort Walsh


People's Republic of China


Beijing

  • Baimaguan Fort
    Baimaguan Fort

    Baimaguan Fort is a fort in the town of Fanzipai, north of Beijing and close to the Great Wall of China. It was built in the period of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty....
  • Gubeikou Fort
  • Qiangzilu Fort


Guangdong

  • Humen Fort
  • Yamen Fort


Hainan

  • Xiuying Forts


Hong Kong

  • Buddhist Hall (Tung Lung) Fort
    Tung Lung Chau

    Tung Lung Chau , also known as Nam Tong Island is an island located off the peninsula of Clear Water Bay in the New Territories in Hong Kong....
  • Fan Lau Fort
    Fan Lau Fort

    Fan Lau Fort is a fort in Fan Lau, the southwest corner of Lantau Island in Hong Kong....
  • Lei Yue Mun Fort
    Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence

    The Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence is a museum in Hong Kong, located Lei Yue Mun near Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island.The total area of the museum is 34,200 square metres....
  • Stanley Fort
    Stanley, Hong Kong

    Stanley is a List of cities and towns in Hong Kong and a Hong Kong landmarks and tourist attractions in Hong Kong. It is a Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong#Peninsulas on the southeastern part of Hong Kong Island....
  • Tung Chung Fort
    Tung Chung Fort

    Tung Chung Fort is a fort located near Tung Chung, on Lantau Island, in Hong Kong. Located near Tung Chung Road, the fort is surrounded by villages of Sheung Ling Pei and Ha Ling Pei ....


Macau

  • Fortaleza da Guia
    Guia Fortress

    The Guia Fortress is a historical military fort, chapel, and lighthouse complex in the St. Lazarus Parish of the former Portugal Portuguese Empire of Macau, in China....
     or Guia Fortress
  • Fortaleza de Mong Há
    Fortaleza de Mong Há

    The Fortaleza de Mong-H? is located on the Colina de Mong-H? in Macau. The fort is part of a greater military reservation - the Bairro Militar de Mong-H?, which included the Quartel de Mong-H?....
  • Fortaleza do Monte
    Fortaleza do Monte

    Fortaleza do Monte is the historical military centre of the former Portugal Portuguese Empire of Macau, in the People's Republic of China. It is part of the "Historic Centre of Macau", a UNESCO World Heritage Site....
     or Monte Fort


Shanghai

  • Wusong Fort


Tianjin

  • Taku Forts
    Taku Forts

    The Taku Forts , also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River estuary, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China....
    , Tianjin
    Tianjin

    is the third largest city of the People's Republic of China in terms of urban population. Administratively it is one of the four municipality that have Political divisions of China status, reporting directly to the central government....


Republic of China


Croatia

Dubrovnik
  • Fort Bokar
  • Fort Minceta
  • Fort Lovrijenac
  • Fort Revelin


Egypt


  • Fort Babylon


Finland

  • Turku Castle
    Turku Castle

    The Turku Castle, is a monument of History of Finland situated in the city of Turku in Finland. Together with the Turku Cathedral, Turku castle is one of the oldest buildings still in use in Finland....
     (sv: Åbo Slott)
  • Häme Castle
    Häme castle

    H?me Castle is a medieval castle in H?meenlinna, Finland. The castle is located on the coast of lake Vanajavesi in the city center. The castle was originally located on an island....
     (sv: Tavastehus), Hämeenlinna
    Hämeenlinna

    H?meenlinna is a List of cities and towns in Finland and Municipalities of Finland of about inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Tavastia in the south of Finland....
  • Castle of Viborg, Viipuri (Now in Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    )
  • St. Olaf's Castle (fi: Olavinlinna), Savonlinna
    Savonlinna

    Savonlinna is a List of cities and towns in Finland and a Municipalities of Finland of inhabitants in the southeast of Finland, in the heart of the Saimaa lake region....
  • Suomenlinna
    Suomenlinna

    Suomenlinna, until 1918 Viapori, , or Sveaborg , is an inhabited sea fortification built on six islands , and which is nowadays part of Helsinki, the Capital of Finland....
     (sv: Sveaborg), Helsinki
    Helsinki

    Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
  • fortress city of Hamina
    Hamina

    Hamina is a List of cities in Finland and a Municipalities of Finland of Finland. It is located in the Provinces of Finland of Southern Finland and is part of the Kymenlaakso Regions of Finland....
    ,
  • Svartholma fortress, Loviisa
    Loviisa

    Loviisa is a Municipalities of Finland and List of cities and towns in Finland of inhabitants on the Southern coast of Finland. About of the population is Finland-Swedish-speaking....
  • fortresses of Ruotsinsalmi (sv: Svensksund
    Battle of Svensksund

    At least two naval battles have been named Battle of Svensksund. Both are also known as Battle of Rochensalm from the Russian language version of the ....
    )    , Kyminlinna and Fort Slava, Kotka
    Kotka

    Kotka is a cities of Finland and municipalities of Finland of Finland.It is located in the provinces of Finland of Southern Finland and is part of the Kymenlaakso regions of Finland....
     
  • Bomarsund
    Bomarsund, Åland

    Bomarsund is a nineteenth century fortress in Sund, ?land on the ?land Islands in the Baltic Sea. It was built in 1832 by Imperial Russia but destroyed twenty two years later in 1854 in the Crimean War by a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-France fleet....
     fortress, Sund, Åland
    Sund, Åland

    Sund is a municipalities of Finland of ?land, an autonomous territory of Finland and is very rich in history and culture and is one of the official 27 national landscapes of Finland....
  • Korela Fortress
    Korela Fortress

    Korela Fortress , at the town of Priozersk, was founded by the Karelians who named the place K?kisalmi.It was first mentioned in a Novgorodian chronicle of 1143 as Korela....
     (fi: Käkisalmi, sv: Kexholm), Priozersk
    Priozersk

    Priozersk is a town on the Karelian Isthmus, in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, centered on an island at the southwestern shore of Lake Ladoga, at the estuary of the northern armlet of River Vuoksi....
     (Now in Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    )
  • Lappeenranta
    Lappeenranta

    Lappeenranta is a cities of Finland and Municipalities of Finland that resides on the shore of the lake Saimaa in South-Eastern Finland, about from the Russian border....
     (sv. Villmanstrand) Fortress


France


  • Fort Bergues
    Bergues

    Bergues is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France.It is situated to the south of Dunkirk and from the Belgium border....
  • Fort Bayonne
    Bayonne

    name= BayonneFile:Bayonne.jpgView of Grand Bayonne across the Adour|r?gion=Aquitaine|d?partement=Pyr?n?es-Atlantiques...
  • Fort de Bellegarde
  • Fort Blaye
    Blaye

    Blaye is a Communes of France and Subprefectures in France in the Gironde Departments of France in Aquitaine in southwestern France. Its inhabitants are called Blayais or the Blayaises....
  • Fort Bouillon
    Bouillon

    Bouillon is a municipality of Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Luxembourg .The municipality, which covers 149.09 km?, had 5,477 inhabitants, giving a population density of 36.7 inhabitants per km?....
  • Fort Boyard
    Fort Boyard

    Fort Boyard is a fort located between the ?le-d'Aix and the Ol?ron in the Pertuis d'Antioche straits, on the west coast of France. It is 61 metres long, 31 metres wide, and its walls are 20 metres high....
  • Fort Cambrai
    Cambrai

    Cambrai is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France. It is a Subprefectures in France of the department.Cambrai is the seat of Archdiocese of Cambrai whose jurisdiction was immense during the Middle Ages....
  • Fort du Chapus or Fort Louvois
  • Fort de Colmars-les-Alpes
  • Fort Douaumont
  • Fort-de-France
    Fort-de-France

    Fort-de-France is the Capital of France's Caribbean d?partement d'outre-mer of Martinique. With a population of 134,727 inhabitants in the urban area, 94,049 of whom live in the city of Fort-de-France proper, it is also one of the major cities in the Caribbean....
     (on the French Caribbean island of Martinique
    Martinique

    Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1,128 km?. It is an overseas department of France. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia....
    )
  • Fort de Joux
    Fort de Joux

    The Fort de Joux or Ch?teau de Joux is a castle, transformed into a fort, located in La Cluse-et-Mijoux, in the Doubs d?partements of France, in the Jura mountains of France....
  • Fort de la Platte
  • Fort Liberia (Villefranche-de-Conflent
    Villefranche-de-Conflent

    Villefranche-de-Conflent is a small walled town in the Pyr?n?es-Orientales d?partement in France, southwestern France.In 2008 Villefranche de Conflent won the coveted award of UNESCO World Heritage Site status....
    )
  • Fort Lupin
  • Fort Montmédy
    Montmédy

    Montm?dy is a Communes of France in the Meuse Departments of France in Lorraine in northeastern France....
  • Fort Mont Louis
  • Fort Neuf-Brisach
  • Fort Chateau d'Oleron
  • Fort Le Quesnoy
    Le Quesnoy

    Le Quesnoy is a Communes of France in the Nord Departments of France in northern France.Le Quesnoy's inhabitants are known as Quercitains....
  • Fort Saint-Elme - (Collioure
    Collioure

    Collioure is a seaside Mediterranean Sea town and commune in France a few kilometers north of the Spain border in the French D?partement in France of Pyr?n?es-Orientales, a part of the ancient Roussillon provinces of France and the present-day Languedoc-Roussillon r?gion in France....
    )
  • Fort Saint-Martin-de-Ré
    Saint-Martin-de-Ré

    Saint-Martin-de-R? is a Communes of France in the Charente-Maritime Departments of France in western France.It is one of the 10 communes located on the ?le de R?....
  • Fort Socoa (Saint-Jean-de-Luz
    Saint-Jean-de-Luz

    Saint-Jean-de-Luz is a commune in France of the Pyr?n?es-Atlantiques D?partements of France in France. It is in the traditional province of Lapurdi of the Basque Country ....
    )
  • Fort de Vincennes
    Vincennes

    Vincennes is a commune in France of the Val-de-Marne located in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. This ?le-de-France town is located . from the Kilometre Zero....


Germany

  • Burg Wildenstein (Leibertingen)
    Burg Wildenstein (Leibertingen)

    Burg Wildenstein , a fortified castle, built between 1200 - 1300 A.C. is situated above the Danube break-through at the Swabian Alb in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany....
  • Festung Ehrenbreitstein
    Festung Ehrenbreitstein

    File:Panorama Koblenz.jpgFile:Aerial fg080.JPGFile:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1988-045-34, Koblenz, amerikanische Flaggenparade.jpgFestung Ehrenbreitstein is a fortress on the same-named mountain on the right side of the Rhine opposite to the town of Koblenz in the German States of Germany of Rhineland-Palatinate....
  • Festung Königstein
  • Fortress Marienberg
    Fortress Marienberg

    Fortress Marienberg is a prominent landmark on the Main river in W?rzburg, Germany. It has been a fort since ancient times. After Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden conquered the area in 1631, the castle was reconstructed in the Baroque style....
  • Saalburg
    Saalburg

    The Saalburg is a Roman fort located on the Taunus ridge northwest of Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany. It is a Cohort Fort belonging to the Limes Germanicus, the Roman linear border fortification of the German provinces....
  • Spandau Citadel
    Spandau Citadel

    The Spandau Citadel of Berlin, Germany, is one of the best-preserved Renaissance architecture fortresses of Europe. Built from 1559–94 atop a medieval fort on an island created by the meeting of the Havel and the Spree, it was designed to protect the town of Spandau, which is now part of Berlin....
  • Veste Coburg
  • Veste Oberhaus
    Veste Oberhaus

    Veste Oberhaus is a fortress that was founded in 1219 and, for most of its time, served as the stronghold of the Bishop of Passau, Germany.The building is located on the mountain crest between the Danube and the Ilz rivers and dominates the city of Passau that is located on the opposite, right side of the Danube....
  • Veste Rosenberg, Kronach
    Kronach

    Kronach is a town in Oberfranken, Bavaria, Germany, located in the Frankenwald area. It is the capital of the Kronach .Kronach is the birthtown of Lucas Cranach the Elder and Maximilian von Welsch, as well as Johann Kaspar Zeuss and Josef Stangl....
  • Zitadelle Mainz
    Zitadelle Mainz

    The Mainzer Zitadelle is situated at the fringe of the Mainz-Altstadt in direct proximity to the railway station "Mainz R?misches Theater". The fortress was constructed in 1660 and was an important part of the Fortress Mainz....


India

See List of India forts

Uttar Pradesh

  • Agra Fort
    Agra Fort

    Agra Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Agra, India. The fort is also known as Lal Qila, Fort Rouge and Red Fort of Agra....

Kerala

  • Bekal Fort
    Bekal Fort

    Bekal Fort is the biggest fort in Kerala, spreading over . The important features of this fort are the tank with its flight of steps, the tunnel opening towards the south, the magazine for keeping ammunition and the broad and wide steps leading to the Observation Tower which is a rarity....
  • Palakkad Fort
    Palakkad Fort

    Palakkad Fort is an old granite fort situated in the heart of Palakkad of Kerala state, southern India. It was built by Haider Ali in 1766 and remains one of the best preserved forts in Kerala....

Karnataka

  • Anegondi Fort, Anegondi
  • Ankola Fort
  • Badami
    Badami

    Badami , formerly known as Vatapi, is a taluk in the Bagalkot District of Karnataka, India. It was the regal capital of the Badami Chalukyas from 540 to 757 AD....
  • Bailhongal
    Bailhongal

    Bailhongal is a town, a taluk in Indian political terms, in the district of Belgaum in Karnataka, India. It is famous for growing cotton. It has great weather throughout the year ....
  • Bandalli Durga, Kollegal Taluk
  • Bangalore
    Bangalore

    Bangalore , officially Bengaluru , is the capital of the Indian States and territories of India of Karnataka. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's List of most populous cities in India and List of most populous metropolitan areas in India....
  • Bankapura, Haveri Dist.
  • Basavakalyan
    Basavakalyan

    Basavakalyan is a town in Bidar District of the state of Karnataka, India. Known historically as Kalyani, it was the regal capital the Western Chalukya dynasty from 1050 to 1195....
  • Basavaraja Durga Fort, Honnavar
  • Belgaum
    Belgaum

    Belgaum is a city and a municipal corporation in Belgaum district in the state of Karnataka, India.It is situated nearly 2,500 ft  above sea-level and is the headquarters of Belgaum district, which borders the states of Maharashtra and Goa....
  • Bellary
    Bellary

    Bellary is a historic city in Bellary District in Karnataka state, India....
  • Bhalki
    Bhalki

    Bhalki is a in Bidar district in the state of Karnataka, India....
  • Bhasmangi Fort, Tumkur Dist.
  • Bidar Fort
  • Bijapur Fort
  • Budikote Fort, Kolar Dist
  • Channarayana Durga, Tumkur Dist.
  • Chitradurga
    Chitradurga Fort

    Chitradurga Fort sits on the top of a hill overlooking the flat surrounding land in Chitradurga District. It is located 120 kilometers from Hampi and 200 kilometers from Bangalore in the state of Karnataka, India....
  • Devanahalli, Near New Bangalore Airport
  • Devarayanadurga Fort, Tumkur Dist.
  • Gajendragad Fort
  • Gulbarga
    Gulbarga

    Gulbarga previously known as is a town in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the administrative headquarters of Gulbarga District, and of Gulbarga Division....
  • Gummanayakanakote Fort, Bagepalli Taluk.
  • Halasi Fort
  • Hanagal Fort
  • Huliyur Durga
  • Huthridurga
  • Jaladurga Fort, Raichur Dist.
  • Jamalabad
    Jamalabad

    Jamalabad fort, located 8 km north of Beltangadi town, is 1788 ft above sea level and was formerly called Narasimha Gudde, which refers to the granite hill on which the fort is built....
  • Kabbal Durga
  • Kampli
    Kampli

    Kampli is a town in the Bellary district, Hospet taluk, in the Indian States and territories of India of Karnataka. The town is situated about 15 km away from world famous Hampi....
  • Kanakagiri Fort
  • Kanakuppa
  • Kavaledurga Fort, Shimoga Dist.
  • Kittur
    Kittur

    Kittur, a village of Belgaum district, Karnataka States and territories of India, is a place of historical significance. Rani Chennamma of Kittur is known for her resistance to British Raj....
  • Koppal Fort
  • Kurumgad Fort, Karwar
  • Madhugiri Fort
  • Madikeri
    Madikeri

    Madikeri is a town in Karnataka state, India. Also known as Mercara, it is the headquarters of Kodagu district....
  • Maliabad Fort, Raichur
  • Manyakheta (Malkhed)
    Manyakheta

    Manyakheta on the banks of Kagina River in Gulbarga district, Karnataka state was the capital of Rashtrakutas from . It is 40 km from Gulbarga city....
  • Manzarabad Fort, Sakaleshpur
  • Midigeshi Fort
  • Mirjan, Uttara Kannada Dist.
  • Mudgal Fort, Raichur Dist.
  • Nandidurg Fort
  • Nargund Fort, Gadag Dist.
  • Nijagal Fort, Tumkur Dist.
  • Pavagada Fort, Tumkur Dist.
  • Parasgad Fort, Belgaum Dist.
  • Ramadurga, Chitradurga Dist.
  • Sadashivgad Fort, Karwar
  • Saundatti Fort
  • Savandurga
    Savandurga

    Savandurga is a hill 33 km west of Bangalore off the Magadi road , in India. The hill is famous for a temple and is also believed to be among the largest monolith hills in the world....
  • Sira Fort, Tumkur Dist.
  • Srirangapattana
  • Surpur Fort, Gulbarga Dist.
  • Uchchangipura
  • Vallabhgad Fort, Belgaum Dist.
  • Yadgir Fort, Gulbarga Dist.
  • Yellur Fort, Belgaum Dist.


Maharashtra

  • Fort Arnala
    Fort Arnala

    Arnala Fort is built on a small island of the port town of Arnala, located around 8 miles north of Vasai, Maharastra, India. Being an island fort, it is also called Jaldurg or Janjire-Arnala....
  • Daulatabad
    Daulatabad

    Daulatabad Starting 1327, it famously remained the capital of Tughlaq dynasty, under Muhammad bin Tughluq , who also changed its name, and forcibily moved the entire population of Delhi here, for two years, before it was abandoned due to lack to water....
  • Kolaba Fort
    Kolaba Fort

    Kolaba Fort is an old military fortification in India. It is situated in the sea at a distance of 1-2 km from the shores of Alibag, 35 km south of Mumbai, in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, India....
  • Lohagad
    Lohagad

    Lohagad is one of the many hill forts of Chatrapati Shivaji. It is situated 52 km from Pune in western India. Lohagad is at an elevation of 3,450 feet ....
  • Murud Janjira
  • Naldurg
    Naldurg

    Naldurg is a city and a municipal council in Osmanabad district in the Indian States and territories of India of Maharashtra.Tulja Bhavani, revered deity of Maharashtra, at whose feet Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj received inspiration to establish Hindvi Swaraj, is at Tuljapur is in this district in which Shree Sant Goroba was born....
  • Padmadurg
    Padmadurg

    Padmadurg is a fort in Maharashtra, India. It was built by shivaji to northwest of Janjira. Although it is not as big as Janjira but still a sea fort that can be visited and enjoyed....
  • Panhala
    Panhala fort

    Panhala fort is located in Panhala, 20 kilometres northwest of Kolhapur in Maharashtra, India. It is one of the largest forts in the Deccan, with a perimeter of 14 kilometres and 110 lookout posts....
  • Pratapgad
    Pratapgad

    Pratapgad is a large fort located in Satara district, in the state of Maharashtra in India. Significant as the site of the Battle of Pratapgad, the fort is now a popular tourist destination....
  • Raigad
    Raigad

    Raigad is a hill fortress situated in the modern day Raigad district of Maharashtra, India. The Maratha king Shivaji made the fort his capital in 1674 when he was crowned King of a Maratha Kingdom which later developed into the Maratha Empire eventually covering majority of modern day India....
  • Rajgad
    Rajgad

    Rajgad , literally meaning King of forts, is one of the most impressive forts of Maharashtra state in India. Situated in the Pune district, the fort is approximately 4250 feet above sea level....
  • Rajmachi
    Rajmachi

    Rajmachi is a small village in the rugged mountains of Sahyadri in India. There are two forts which were built by Shivaji Emperor during 17th century....
  • Shivneri
  • Sindhudurg
    Sindhudurg

    Sindhudurg is a fortress which occupies an islet in the Arabian Sea, just off the coast of Maharashtra in western India. The fortress lies on the shore of Malvan town of Sindhudurg District in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, south of Mumbai....
  • Sinhgad
  • Sudhagad
    Sudhagad

    Sudhagad is a hill fort situated in Maharashtra, India....
  • Torna
    Torna

    Torna may refer to:* Turna, county of the former Kingdom of Hungary* Torna Hundred, administrative division of Sk?ne, Sweden* Torna Fort in Pune District, Maharashtra, India...
  • Tikona
    Tikona

    Tikona is the dominant hill fort in Maval in western India. It is located near Kamshet around 60 km from Pune The village nearest the fort is called Tikona-Peth....
  • Vishalgad
    Vishalgad

    Vishalgad was one of the important forts of Shivaji and Maratha Empire. The name ?Vishalgad? meaninggrand fort in Marathi, was given by Shivaji after annexing it for the Maratha Empire in 1659....
  • Visapur
    Visapur fort

    Visapur fort is a hill fort near Visapur village in Maharashtra, India. It is a part of the Lohagad-Visapur fortification....
  • Vijayadurg
    Vijayadurg

    Vijaydurga, which literally means "Victory Fort", is a fort built by Shivaji in the Sindhudurga district in Maharashtra, India. The main purpose of building this fort was to defend the shoreline on the Arabian Sea....
  • Purandhar
  • Karnala fort
    Karnala fort

    Karnala fort is a hill fort in Raigad district about 10 km from Panvel town. Currently it is a protected place lying within the Karnala Bird Sanctuary....
  • Malhargad
    Malhargad

    Malhargad is a hill fort in western India near Sasvad, from Pune. It is also known as Sonori Fort due to the village of Sonori being situated at its base....
  • Rajmachi
    Rajmachi

    Rajmachi is a small village in the rugged mountains of Sahyadri in India. There are two forts which were built by Shivaji Emperor during 17th century....
  • Suvarnadurg
    Suvarnadurg

    Suvarnadurg is an island fortress near Harnai in Konkan, along the western coast of India, between Mumbai and Goa. Located at 17 km from Dapoli at Harne, the Suvarnadurg fort consists of two forts, Kanakdurg the land fort and Suvarnadurg the sea fort....


Union Territory of Delhi

  • Delhi Fort
    Delhi Fort

    The Delhi Fort also known as Lal Qil'ah, or Lal Qila meaning the Red Fort, located in the Old Delhi of Delhi, India and became a World Heritage Site in 2007....

West Bengal

  • Fort William
    Fort William, India

    Fort William is a fort built in Calcutta on the Eastern banks of the Hooghly River, the major distributary of river Ganges during the early years of the Bengal Presidency of British India....

Andhra Pradesh

  • Golconda
    Golconda

    Golconda may be:Places:* Golkonda, ruined city and fortress in India* Golconda, Illinois, town in the United States* Golconda, Nevada, former town in the United States...
  • Udayagiri
    Udayagiri

    Udayagiri is the name of many places in India, among them:*Udayagiri Fort, one in Tamil Nadu and the other in Andhra Pradesh*Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves, the site of ruins of a complex of buildings...
  • Gandikota
    Gandikota

    Gandikota was founded in 1123 A.D. by Kakaraja, a subordinate of Ahavamalla Someswara I, the Western Chalukyan king of Kalyana. The town played a significant role during the Kakatiya, Vijayanagara and Qutub Shahi periods....
  • Vizayanagaram
  • Domakonda
    Domakonda

    Domakonda is a village and a Subdivisions of India in Nizamabad district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India....
  • medak
    Medak

    For the district information, see Medak district.Medak is a city and a municipality in Medak District in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, India....
  • Vanaparthy
  • Kondaveedu


Rajasthan

  • Amber Fort
    Amber Fort

    Amber Fort is located in Amber, India, 11 km from Jaipur, Rajasthan States and territories of India, India. It was the ancient citadel of the ruling Kachhawa clan of Amber, before the capital was shifted to present day Jaipur....
    , Jaipur
    Jaipur

    Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital of Rajasthan States and territories of India, India. Historically rendered as Jeypore, Jaipur is the former capital of the princely state of Jaipur State....
  • Chittaurgarh Fort, Chittor
  • Junagarh Fort
    Junagarh Fort

    Junagarh Fort is an impressive fort in the city of Bikaner, Rajasthan. The fort was originally called Chintamani and was renamed Junagarh or "Old Fort" in the early 20th century when the ruling family moved to Lalgarh Palace....
    , Bikaner
    Bikaner

    Bikaner is a District in the northwest of the States and territories of India of Rajasthan in western India. The city is the administrative headquarters of Bikaner District and Bikaner division....
  • Kotah Fort, Kota
    Kota

    Kota or KOTA may refer to:*The Kota tribe whose members live in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu, South India*The Kota language, a Dravidian language spoken in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu...
  • Kumbhalgarh Fort, Udaipur
  • Lohagarh Fort
    Lohagarh Fort

    Lohagarh Fort is situated at Bharatpur, India in Rajasthan, India. It was constructed by Bharatpur Jat rulers. Maharaja Suraj Mal used all his power and wealth to a good cause, and built numerous forts and palaces across his kingdom, one of them being the Lohagarh Fort, which was one of the strongest ever built in Indian history....
    , Bharatpur
    Bharatpur

    Bharatpur may refer to:*Bharatpur, Nepal, a city in Nepal.*Bharatpur, Dhanusa, village in Nepal*Bharatpur, Mahottari, village in Nepal*Bharatpur, India, a city in India....
  • Meharangarh Fort, Jodhpur
    Jodhpur

    Jodhpur , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, also known as Marwar....
  • Sonar Qila, Jaisalmer
    Jaisalmer

    Jaisalmer , nicknamed "The Golden City", is a town in the Indian Indian state of Rajasthan. The town stands on a ridge of yellowish sandstone, crowned by a fort, which contains the palace and several ornate Jain temples....
  • Taragarh Fort
    Taragarh Fort

    Taragarh Fort or 'Star Fort' is the most impressive of structures of city of Bundi in Indian state of Rajasthan. A rather ramshackle fort, with its overgrown vegetation, is located around 39 km from Kota....
    , Bundi
    Bundi

    Bundi is a city and a municipality of approximately 88,000 inhabitants in the Hadoti List of regions in India of Rajasthan States and territories of India in northwest India....


Tamil Nadu

  • Vellore Fort
    Vellore Fort

    Vellore Fort is a large 16th-century fort situated in Vellore city near Chennai, in the States and territories of India of Tamil Nadu, India....
  • Attur Fort
    Attur

    Attur is a town, Subdivisions of India#Municipalities and capital of Attur Taluk in the Salem district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India....
    , Salem
  • Dindigul
    Dindigul

    Dindigul is a City and municipality in the Tamil Nadu state of southern India. It is the administrative headquarters of Dindigul district....
     Rock Fort
  • Udayagiri
    Udayagiri

    Udayagiri is the name of many places in India, among them:*Udayagiri Fort, one in Tamil Nadu and the other in Andhra Pradesh*Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves, the site of ruins of a complex of buildings...
     Fort
  • Gingee Fort
    Gingee Fort

    Gingee Fort also known as Chinji or Jinji in Tamil Nadu, India is one of the few surving forts in Tamil Nadu — which is much more popular for its temples than forts....
  • Vattakottai Fort
  • Fort St David
    Fort St David

    Fort St. David was a British fort near the town of Cuddalore, a hundred miles south of Madras on the Coromandel Coast of India. It was bought from the Mahrattas by the British East India Company in 1690....
    , Cudalore
  • Fort St George
    Fort St George

    Fort St George is the name of the first United Kingdom fortress in India, founded in 1639 at the coastal city of Madras The construction of the fort provided the impetus for further settlements and trading activity, in what was originally a no man's land....
    , Chennai


Madhya Pradesh

  • Gwalior
    Gwalior

    Gwalior ,, is a city in Madhya Pradesh in India. It lies 76 miles south of Agra and has a population of over 12 lakh . The Gwalior metropolitan area is the 46th most populated area in the country....
     Fort, largest in India


Japan

  • Goryokaku
    Goryokaku

    is a star fort in the city of Hakodate, Hokkaido in southern Hokkaido, Japan. It was the main fortress of the short-lived Republic of Ezo....
    , Hakodate
    Hakodate, Hokkaido

    is a cities of Japan and port located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital city of Oshima Subprefecture.As of March 2008, the city has an estimated population of 287,691 and a population density of 442.24 persons per km?....
    , Hokkaido
    Hokkaido

    , formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island and the largest, northernmost of its 47 prefectures of Japan....


Indonesia

  • Fort Marlborough in Bengkulu
    Bengkulu

    Bengkulu is a Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia. It is on the southwest coast of the island of Sumatra, and borders the provinces of West Sumatra, Jambi, South Sumatra and Lampung....
    , Sumatra
  • Fort Rotterdam in Makassar
    Makassar

    Makassar, is the Provinces of Indonesia capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sulawesi Island. From 1971 to 1999, the city was formally named Ujung Pandang, after a precolonial fort in the city, and the two names are often used interchangeably....
    , Sulawesi
  • Fort de Kock in Bukittinggi
    Bukittinggi

    Bukittinggi is one of the larger cities in West Sumatra, Indonesia, with a population of over 91,000 people and an area of 25.24 km?. It is situated in the Minangkabau highlands, 90 km by road from the West Sumatran capital city of Padang, Indonesia....
    , West Sumatra
    West Sumatra

    West Sumatra is a Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia. It lies on the west coast of the island Sumatra, and borders the provinces of North Sumatra to the north, Riau and Jambi to the east, and Bengkulu to the southeast....
  • Fort Vredeburg
    Fort Vredeburg

    Fort Vredeburg is a fortress built by the Netherlands in Yogyakarta during Colonialism. It is located in front of Gedung Agung, one of seven presidential palaces in Indonesia and the Sultan Palace called Kraton ....
     in Yogyakarta, Java
  • Fort van der Capellen in Batusangkar
    Batusangkar

    Batusangkar is the capital of the Tanah Datar regency of West Sumatra, Indonesia.The town is near the former seat of the Minangkabau royalty established by Adityawarman in Pagaruyung, represented by the reconstructed Pagaruyung Palace....
    , West Sumatra
    West Sumatra

    West Sumatra is a Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia. It lies on the west coast of the island Sumatra, and borders the provinces of North Sumatra to the north, Riau and Jambi to the east, and Bengkulu to the southeast....
  • Fort Victoria
    Fort Victoria

    Fort Victoria may refer to:* Fort Victoria , Canada* Fort Victoria , Canada* Fort Victoria * Fort Victoria , England* Masvingo, named Fort Victoria until 1982...
     in Ambon
    Ambon

    Ambon may refer to:Places* Ambon Island, an island in Indonesia.* Ambon, Maluku, a city on the Ambon Island, the capital of Maluku .* Ambon, Morbihan, a commune in Morbihan, France...
    , the Moluccas
  • Fort Vastenburg in Surakarta
    Surakarta

    Surakarta is an Indonesian city of approximately 500,000 people located in Central Java....
    , Java
  • Imam Bonjol Fort in Bonjol, West Sumatra
    West Sumatra

    West Sumatra is a Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia. It lies on the west coast of the island Sumatra, and borders the provinces of North Sumatra to the north, Riau and Jambi to the east, and Bengkulu to the southeast....
  • Fort Belgica
    Fort Belgica

    Fort Belgica, one of many forts built by the Dutch East India Company, is located in the Banda Islands, Maluku Province, and is one of the largest remaining European forts in Indonesia....
     in Bandanaira
    Bandanaira

    Bandanaira is the only settlement of significant size on any of the Banda Islands, located in the Maluku province of Indonesia. The town is located on the central island of the Bandas group, Banda Neira, the only one of the islands with enough flat space to allow a small town....
    , Banda Islands
    Banda Islands

    The Banda Islands are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about 140km south of Seram island and about 2000km east of Java , and are part of the Indonesian province of Maluku ....


Israel

Acre
Acre, Israel

Acre also Akko, is a List of Israeli cities in the Western Galilee region of North District Israel. It is situated on a low promontory at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay....
 Arsuf
Arsuf

Arsuf also known as Arsur or Apollonia, was an ancient city and fortress located in Israel, about 15 kilometres north of modern Tel Aviv, on a cliff above the Mediterranean Sea....
 (a.k.a Apollonia) Belveer
Mevaseret Zion

Mevaseret Zion is a suburb of Jerusalem, Israel. Today, Mevaseret Zion is composed of two distinct settlements?Maoz Zion and Mevaseret Yerushalayim?under the jurisdiction of one local council....
 Belvoir
Belvoir Fortress (Israel)

The Crusader states fortress of Belvoir, located on a hill of the Naphtali plateau, 20 km. south of the Sea of Galilee and about 500 meters above the Jordan Valley, was originally a part of the feudal estate of a French nobleman named Velos who lived in Tiberias....
 (a.k.a Kochav Ha-Yarden) Bokek Stronghold
Ein Bokek

Ein Bokek is a location on the Israeli shore of the Dead Sea, mostly known for its hotels area. It is located in the Tamar Regional Council, close to Neve Zohar....
 Binar Bashi
Antipatris

Antipatris, one of two places known as Tel Afek, was a city built by Herod the Great, and named in honour of his father, Antipater the Idumaean....
 (a.k.a Antipatris Fortress) Caesarea Cafarlet
Cafarlet

Cafarlet is a Middle Ages Fortification that was located in the village of Kfar Lam. Today, it is located inside moshav HaBonim , Israel....
 (a.k.a. HaBonim Fortress) Chateau Pelerin
Chateau Pelerin

Ch?teau P?lerin, also known as Atlit Castle and Castle Pilgrim, is located on the northern coast of Israel about 13 km south of Haifa ....
 (a.k.a Atlit Fortress) Latrun
Latrun

Latrun is a strategic hilltop in the Ayalon Valley overlooking the road to Jerusalem. It is located 15 kilometers west of Jerusalem and 14 kilometers southeast of Ramla....
 Le Destroit
Le Destroit

Le Destroit is a Middle Ages Fortification, located near the town of Atlit, Israel.he:???? ?????...
 Kal'at Al Mina
Kal'at Al Mina

Kal'at Al Mina is Fatimid citadel in Ashdod-Sea site on the southern coast of modern city of Ashdod.It was built during the Ancient Arab Era . The rectangular fortress has four guard towers, one at each corner....
 (a.k.a Ashdod-Sea Fortress) Masada
Masada

Masada is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel on top of an isolated rock plateau, or large mesa, on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea....
 (Metzada in Hebrew) Mirabel
Migdal Afek

Migdal Afek or Migdal Tsedek is a site located near the town of Rosh HaAyin, Israel. The site includes ruins of the crusaders' fortress Mirabel. In 1994 the site was declared national park....
 (a.k.a. Migdal Afek or Migdal Tsedek) Montfort Castle
Montfort Castle

The Montfort is a ruined Crusades fortress in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, about 22 miles northeast of the city of Haifa and 10 miles south of the border with Lebanon....
 Nimrod Fortress
Nimrod Fortress

The Nimrod Fortress or Nimrod's Fortress, is an ancient Fortification situated in the northern Golan Heights, on a ridge rising about 800 m above sea level....
 (a.k.a Qal'at Namrud) Qaqun Fortress
Qaqun

Qaqun was a Palestinian Arab village located 6 kilometres northwest of the city of Tulkarem, at the only entrance to Mount Nablus from the coastal Sharon plain....
 Tower of David
Tower of David

The Tower of David is an ancient citadel located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. Built to strengthen a strategically weak point in the Old City's defenses, the citadel was constructed during the second century BCE and subsequently destroyed and rebuilt by, in succession, the Christian, Muslim, Mamluk, and Ottoman...
 Tzippori
Tzippori

Tzippori , also known by the Greek Sepphoris, the Latin Dioceserea, and the Arabic Saffuriya or Suffurriye, is located in the central Galilee region, six kilometers north-northwest of Nazareth, in modern-day Israel....
 Vadum Iacob
Battle of Jacob's Ford

Jerusalem has been and is considered by many to be one of the holiest cities in the world. For this reason, Christians and Muslims fought for control of the Holy City over several centuries....
 (a.k.a Ateret Fortress) Yehiam Fortress

Libya

Fort Capuzzo
Fort Capuzzo

Fort Capuzzo was a fortification in the Kingdom of Italy colony of Libya, near the Libyan-Egypt border. It is famous for its role during World War II....


Lithuania

Ninth Fort
Ninth Fort

The Ninth Fort is Kaunas Fortress in the northern ?ilainiai elderate of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, making a part of the Kaunas Fortress, constructed in the late 19th century....
 - part of Kaunas
Kaunas

Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and a Temporary capital of Lithuania. It is served by the freeways European route E67 and A1 highway ....
 fortifications.

Malaysia

Fort Cornwallis
Fort Cornwallis

Fort Cornwallis is an old star-shaped fort located on the northeastern coast of Penang, Malaysia. It is named after the late 18th century Governor-General of Bengal, India....
 Porta de Santiago or Fort A'Famosa Utrecht Fort Fort Philipina or Fort Kuala Linggi Fort Margherita Fort Emma Kota Lukut
Kota Lukut

Kota Lukut or Fort Lukut is a notable historical site in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Located at the hill near Lukut town. The fort was built in 1847 to control the lucrative tin trade in the area....
 built by Raja Jumaat Raja Jaafar in 1847 Kota Belanda or Kota Dindingh was built by Dutch in 1670 at Kampung Teluk Gedung, Pulau Pangkor. Kota Batu or Kota Johor Lama Kota Melawati Kota Kuala Kedah Kota Bukit Puteri Kota Raja Mahadi Kota Jelasin Kota Ngah Ibrahim
Kota Ngah Ibrahim

Kota Ngah Ibrahim or Ngah Ibrahim's Fort is a fort of historical value in Taiping, Perak, Perak, Malaysia....
 Fort Bukit Maung Fort Tanjung Pengelih- historical British Military Operation Centre fort Fort Mat Salleh Kota Indera Kayangan Kota Sena

Malta

Fort Benghisa
Fort Benghisa

Fort Benghisa is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands on high ground on the seaward face of Benghisa point, the southern arm of Marsaxlokk Bay....
 Fort Delimara
Fort Delimara

Fort Delimara is a fortification in Marsaxlokk, Malta....
 Fort Leonardo
Fort Leonardo

Fort Leonado also known as Fort St Leonardo, Fort San Leonardo and Fort San Anard is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands between the villages of San Leonardo and Zonqor above the shore east of Grand Harbour....
 Fort Manoel
Fort Manoel

Fort Manoel is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands on Manoel Island in Marsamxett Harbour to the north west of Valletta and commands the entrance to Marsamxett Harbour and the anchorage of Sliema....
 Fort Mellieha Fort Ricasoli
Fort Ricasoli

Ricasoli Fort is a large fortification on the island of Malta. The fort was built by Knights Hospitaller between 1670 and 1693....
 Fort Rinella
Fort Rinella

Fort Rinella is a Victorian era fortification on the island of Malta. It is also referred to as the Rinella Artillery battery in some maps and publications....
 Fort St Elmo Fort Saint Michael
Fort Saint Michael

Fort St Michael was a fortification on the island of Malta.A fort of that name was built by Knights Hospitaller between 1551 and 1565 on the peninsula then known as Isla St Michael formed by Dockyard Creek and French Creek in Grand Harbour....
 Fort St. Rocco Fort Tas-Silg
Fort Tas-Silg

Fort Tas-Silg is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands on high ground at the shoreward end of Delimara Point, above Il-Hofra-z-Zghira....
 Ghajn Tuffieha Tower
Ghajn Tuffieha Tower

Ghajn Tuffieha Tower is a fortification that stands on the cliffs overlooking the shore at Ghajn Tuffieha Bay on the north west coast of Malta....
 Ghallis Tower
Ghallis Tower

Ghallis Tower is a small coastal fortification that the Knights Hospitaller built on the island of Malta. It was originally primarily a watchtower with a garrison consisting of a bombardier and three gunners, who manned a three-pounder iron cannon....
 Madliena Tower
Madliena tower

Madliena Tower is a fortification on the island of Malta built by Knights Hospitaller. A watchtower, it stands on high ground above the shore west of Ras L-Irqieqa on the north shore of Malta....
 Mamo Tower
Mamo Tower

Mamo Tower is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands on rising ground above St Thomas Bay on the east shore of Malta. The Mamo family built the tower in 1657, as a fortified residence....
 Qawra Tower
Qawra Tower

Qawra Tower is a fortification on the island of Malta built by the Knights of Malta in 1637. It is a small fortification, primarily a watchtower....
 St. Agatha's Tower (Red Tower)
St. Agatha's Tower

St. Agatha's Tower in Malta is similar in style to the Wignacourt towers, though it was completed in 1649 during the Grand Mastership of Juan de Lascaris-Castellar to a design by Antonio Garsin....
 St. George's Tower St Lucian Tower
St Lucian Tower

St Lucian Tower is a fortification on the island of Malta that stands above the shore of Marsaxlokk Bay on the headland between Marsaxlokk and Birzebbuga....
 St Mark's Tower
St Mark's tower

St. Mark's Tower or Qalet Marku is a fortification on the island of Malta built by Knights Hospitaller. It is a small watchtower that stands on Qrejten Point on the north shore of Malta....
 St Mary's Tower St. Paul's Battery St Thomas Tower
St Thomas Tower

St Thomas Tower is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands above the shore on the seaward face of the headland of Il-Hamriga. The tower was built by the Knights Hospitaller in 1614 during the reign of Grand master Alof de Wignacourt, and is one of the set of Wignacourt towers....
 Wignacourt Tower

The Netherlands

Fort Nassau
Fort Nassau

The name Fort Nassau was used by the Netherlands in the 17th century for several fortifications, mostly trading stations, named for the House of Orange-Nassau....


Forts on the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie
Dutch Water Line

HistoryThe Dutch Water Line was a series of water based defences conceived by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and realised by his half brother Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange....

Fort Pampus Fort aan de Ossenmarkt Fort Uitermeer Fort Hinderdam Fort Ronduit Fort Uitermeer Fort Kijkuit Fort Spion Fort Nieuwersluis Fort bij Tienhoven Fort aan de Klop Fort de Gagel Fort op de Ruigenhoeksedijk Fort Blauwkapel Fort op de Voordorpsdijk Fort aan de Biltstraat Fort bij Rhijnauwen Fort bij Vechten Fort bij 't Hemeltje Fort bij Jutphaas Fort Honswijk Fort Everdingen Fort bij Asperen Fort bij de Nieuwe Steeg Fort bij Vuren Fort Steurgat

Pakistan





Fort of Qilla Saifullah District
Qilla Saifullah District

Qilla Saifullah, Killa Saifullah or Saifullah Qilla is a Districts of Pakistan in the north west of Balochistan province of Pakistan....
 Altit Fort
Altit Fort

Altit Fort is an ancient fort in the Hunza valley in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. It was home to the hereditary rulers of the Hunza state who took the title Mir ....
 Jamrud Fort
Jamrud Fort

Located at the entrance to the Khyber Pass, Jamrud Fort was built by the Sikhs in 1823.In 1837, it was here that the Afghans attacked the Sikhs during the Battle of Jamrud and Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa, the Sikh Commander, was killed....
, Peshawar
Peshawar

is the capital of the North-West Frontier Province and the administrative centre for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan."Peshawar" literally means The High Fort in Persian language and is known as Pekhawar in Pashto....
 Mirgarh fort, Cholistan Muzaffarabad
Muzaffarabad

Muzaffarabad is the capital of the Azad Kashmir. It is located in Muzaffarabad District on the banks of the Jhelum River and Neelum River rivers....
 Forts (red and black) Multan Fort
Multan Fort

The Multan Fort, a Pakistani military installation, was a landmark of Indian defence and architecture. It was built near the city of Multan, in Punjab province, on a hillock separated from the city by the Ravi River....
 Fort Munro
Fort Munro

Fort Munro lies on the Quetta Road at 85 km from Dera Ghazi Khan.It is the only hill station in southern Punjab in the Sulaiman Mountains Range....
 Dhakki fort, Gujrat
Gujrat

Gujrat is a city in Pakistan and is the capital of Gujrat District and the Gujrat Tehsil subdivision in the Punjab . A person living in Gujrat is called Gujrati....
 Burj Hari Singh Fort of Gujar Singh, Lahore
Lahore

is the capital of the Pakistani Subdivisions of Pakistan of Punjab and is the List of most populated metropolitan areas in Pakistan city in Pakistan after Karachi....
 Giri Fort, Taxila Marotfort, Bahawalpur Malot Fort, Chakwal Nandana Fort, Chakwal

Philippines


Corregidor
Corregidor

Corregidor is an island in the entrance of the Philippines' Manila Bay. Due to its position in the bay, it has served as a focal point for the naval defenses of the capital city of Manila....
 Island Cuyo Fort, Cuyo Island, Palawan Fort Drum (El Fraile Island)
Fort Drum (El Fraile Island)

Fort Drum , also known as the ?concrete battleship,? is a heavily fortified island fortress situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island....
 Fort Malate Fort Pilar
Fort Pilar

Fort Pilar is a 17th century military defence fortress built by the History of the Philippines in Zamboanga City on Mindanao Island in the Republic of the Philippines....
 Fort San Felipe Neri, Cavite City Fort San Pedro
Fort San Pedro

Fuerza de San Pedro is a military defence structure, built by Spanish and indigenous Cebuano labourers under the command of Spain conquistador, Miguel L?pez de Legazpi and the Spanish Government in Cebu Island....
 Fort Santa Isabel, Taytay, Palawan Fort Santiago
Fort Santiago

Fort Santiago is a defense fortress built for Spanish conquistador, Miguel L?pez de Legazpi. The fort is part of the structures of the walled city of Intramuros, in Manila, Philippines....


Poland

Wisloujscie stronghold in Gdansk
Gdansk

Gdansk is the city at the centre of the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Poland. It is Poland's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship....
 Miedzyrzecz Fortification Region Osowiec
Osowiec

Osowiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Goniadz, within Monki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.The village has a population of 630....
 Torun Fortress
Torun Fortress

Torun Fortress , built from 1872?1894 by the Kingdom of Prussia and located in Torun , is one of the largest Fortification in Central Europe and Eastern Europe....


Portugal

Belém Tower
Belém Tower

Bel?m Tower is a fortified tower located in the Bel?m, Lisbon district of Lisbon, Portugal.It was built in the early 16th century in the Portuguese late Gothic style, the Manueline, to commemorate Vasco da Gama's expedition....
, Lisbon
Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...


Puerto Rico

Fort San Felipe del Morro
Fort San Felipe del Morro

Fort San Felipe del Morro ?or El Castillo San Felipe del Morro in Spanish language? is a sixteenth-century citadel which lies on the northwestern-most point of the islet of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico....
 Fort San Cristobal
Fort San Cristóbal

The Castillo de San Crist?bal is a Spanish fort in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico. It was built by the Spain to protect against land based attacks on the city of San Juan....
 Fort San Geronimo

Russia

Kronstadt Moscow Kremlin
Moscow Kremlin

The Moscow Kremlin usually referred to as simply The Kremlin, is a historic fortified complex at the heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River , Saint Basil's Cathedral and Red Square and the Alexander Garden ....
 Peter and Paul Fortress
Peter and Paul Fortress

The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740....
, Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
 Por Bajin, Tuva Republic

Serbia

Belgrade Fortress
Kalemegdan

Kalemegdan is a fortress and park in an urban area List of Belgrade neighborhoods of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad, Belgrade....
 Golubac Fortress
Golubac fortress

Golubac Fortress was a medieval Fortification town on the right side of the Danube River, 4 kilometers downstream from the modern-day town of Golubac, Serbia....
 Maglic Fortress
Maglic

Maglic is a medieval fortress in Ibar River gorge 20 km south from Kraljevo in Serbia. It is placed atop a hill around which the Ibar River makes a curve, about 100 m above river level....
 Petrovaradin Fortress
Petrovaradin fortress

Petrovaradin Fortress is a fortress in Novi Sad , Serbian province of Vojvodina, on the right bank of Danube river. The cornerstone of the present-day southern part of the fortress was laid on October 18, 1692, by Prince Croy....


Singapore

Fort Canning
Fort Canning

File:Fortcanningpark.JPGFile:Fort Canning Park Hill St.JPGFort Canning ,: is a small hill slightly more than 60 metres high in the southeast portion of the island city-state of Singapore, within the Central Area that forms Singapore's central business district....
 Fort Connaught Fort Fullerton Fort Pasir Panjang
Fort Pasir Panjang

File:Watch Tower-Singapore.jpgFort Pasir Panjang or Labrador Battery is located within the lush Labrador Park at the southern tip of Singapore island....
 Fort Palmer Fort Serapong Fort Siloso
Fort Siloso

File:Fort Siloso, Sentosa, Aug 06.JPGFile:Fort siloso gunners.jpgFort Siloso is the sole restored coastal gun battery from the twelve such batteries which made up "Fortress Singapore" at the start of World War II....
 Fort Silingsing Fort Tanjong Katong
Fort Tanjong Katong

File:Fort Tanjong Katong Present.JPGFort Tanjong Katong, which stood from 1879 to 1901, was one of the oldest military forts built by the former United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Straits Settlements of Singapore....
 Fort Teregah

Sri Lanka

Galle fort
Galle fort

Galle fort was built first by the Portuguese, then modified by the Dutch during the 17th century. During the Dutch period in Ceylon, the Dutch brought labourers from Indonesia and Mozambique to build this massive fort....
 Fort Fredrick

South Korea


Namhansanseong Fortress 1621 Hwaseong Fortress
Hwaseong Fortress

Hwaseong , the wall surrounding the centre of Suwon, South Korea, was built in the late 18th century by Jeongjo of Joseon of the Joseon Dynasty to honour and house the remains of his father Prince Sado, who had been murdered by being locked alive inside a rice chest by his own father Yeongjo of Joseon having failed to obey his command to comm...
 in Suwon
Suwon

Suwon is the provincial capital of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. A city of over a million inhabitants, Suwon lies approximately 30 kilometres south of Seoul and is one of the most populous of Seoul's satellite cities....
 1796 Haengju Mountain Fortress 1592 Hangpadu-ri Fortress 1273? Suinsangseong Fortress

Spain


Albacete
Albacete

Albacete is a city and municipality in southeastern Spain, 258 km southeast of Madrid, the capital of the Albacete in the autonomous communities of Spain of Castilla-La Mancha....
 

Fort Chinchilla
Chinchilla

Chinchillas are crepuscular rodents, slightly larger than ground squirrels, native to the Andes mountains in South America. Along with their relatives, viscachas, they belong to the family Chinchillidae....

Alicante
Alicante

Alicante or Alacant is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of the Alacant?, in the southern part of the Valencian Community....
 

Fort Biar

Ávila
Ávila

This article is about the Spanish city. For other uses, see Avila?vila de los Caballeros is the capital of the ?vila , now part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon, Spain ....
 

Fort Arévalo Fort Aunqueospese Fort Triste Condesa Fort Duque de Montellano Fort Magalia Fort Monbeltrán

Badajoz
Badajoz

Badajoz - , the capital of the Spain provinces of Spain of Badajoz in the autonomous communities of Spain of Extremadura, is situated close to the Portugal border, on the left bank of the river Guadiana, and the Madrid-Lisbon railway....

Fort Jerez de los Caballeros
Jerez de los Caballeros

Jerez de los Caballeros is a town of south-western Spain, in the province of Badajoz. It is situated on two heights overlooking the River Ardila, a tributary of the Guadiana, 12 miles east of the Portugal frontier....
 Fort Codosera Fort Duques de Feria Fort Luna

Burgos
Burgos

Burgos is a city of northern Spain, at the edge of the central plateau, with about 178.000 inhabitants in the city proper and another 15,000 in its suburbs....
 

Fort de las Torres Fort El cid
El Cid

Rodrigo D?az de Vivar , known as El Cid Campeador, was a Kingdom of Castile nobleman, a gifted military leader and diplomat who, after being exiled, conquered and governed the city of Valencia ....
 Fort Cartagena
Cartagena, Spain

Cartagena is a Spanish Mediterranean city and Spanish Navy in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula in the Region of Murcia.Cartagena has been the capital of the Naval Structure of the Spanish Navy in the New Millennium since the arrival of the House of Bourbon in the eighteenth century....

Cáceres
Cáceres

C?ceres may refer to* C?ceres in Spain**C?ceres which covers the province* C?ceres, Spain, the capital of C?ceres Province* C?ceres, Antioquia, municipality in Colombia...
 

Fort Arquijuelas de Abajo Fort Arguijuelas de Arriba Fort Coria
Coria

Coria may refer to:* Rodolfo Coria, the Argentine paleontologist* Guillermo Coria, the Argentine tennis playerCoria is also a Brythonic equivalent of the Latin Curia and may be used as a place-name in in Roman Britain and elsewhere:...
 Fort Las Seguras Fort Trujillo

Cádiz
Cádiz

C?diz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the province of C?diz, one of eight which make up the Autonomous communities of Spain of Andalusia....
 

Fort Guzmán el Bueno Fort San Sebastián
San Sebastián

Donostia-San Sebasti?n is the capital city of the Provinces of Spain of Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country , Spain. Locals call themselves donostiarras, both in Basque and Spanish....
 Fort Santa Catalina

Castellón
Castellón

Castell?n or Castellon may refer to:...

Fort Peñíscola
Peñíscola

Pen?scola is a Valencia municipality located on the Costa del Azahar along the eastern Mediterranean coast of Spain in the province of Castell? ....

Córdoba
Córdoba, Spain

viktor chucchuc he sucsuck my dick||-||-|File:Cordoba Water Wheel.jpg|}Cordova is a city in Andalusia, southern Spain, and the capital of the C?rdoba ....

Fort Almodóvar del Río Fort Atienza Fort Molina de Aragón
Molina de Aragón

Molina de Arag?n is a municipality located in the Guadalajara , Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 3,478 inhabitants....
 Fort Santiuste Fort Siguenza Fort Torija

Gerona
Gerona

Gerona can refer to:* Girona , a city in Catalonia, Spain, also spelt Gerona or Girone ** Province of Girona, is a province of eastern Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia....

Fort San Julian de Ramis Fort San Fernando (Figueres)

Guipuzcoa

Fort San Marcos (Renteria-San Sebastian) Fort Guadalupe (Hondarribia / Fuenterrabia) Fort Txoritokieta (Renteria-Astigarraga) Fort Mompas (San Sebastian) Fort Urgull (San Sebastian)

Huelva
Huelva

Huelva is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the Huelva in the autonomous region of Andalusia. It is located along the Gulf of Cadiz coast, at the confluence of the Odiel river and Rio Tinto rivers....
 

Fort Cartaya
Cartaya

Cartaya is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva , Spain. According to the 2006 census, the city has a population of 16,042 inhabitants....
 Fort Niebla
Niebla

Niebla may refer to:* Niebla, Chile a coastal town in the Valdivia * Niebla, Huelva— a municipality in Huelva province, Spain* Niebla — a novel by Miguel de Unamuno, published 1914...
 Fort Santa Olalla de Cala Fort Cortegana
Cortegana

Cortegana is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva , Spain. According to the 2005 census, the city has a population of 4,952 inhabitants....


Huesca
Huesca

Huesca is a city in Aragon, Spain. Huesca is the capital of the Spanish Huesca . In 2006 it had a population of 49,312....
 

Fort Alquézar Fort Rapitan Fort Santa Elena Fort Coll de Ladrones Fort Sagueta

Jaén

Fort Baños de la Encina Fort Santa Catalina Fort Segura de la Sierra

La Coruña

Fort San Antón

León
León (province)

Le?n is a Provinces of Spain of northwestern Spain, in the northwestern part of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Castile and Leon.About one quarter of its population of 500,200 lives in the capital, Le?n, Le?n....
 

Fort Grajal Fort Los Templarios

Madrid
Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
 

Fort Manzanares el Real

Minorca
Minorca

Minorca is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea and belongs to Spain. It takes its name from being smaller than nearby island of Majorca....

Fort la Mola Fort St Philip Fort Malborough Fort San Felipe Fort San Filipet

Murcia
Murcia

Murcia is the capital city of the Region of Murcia, located at the river Segura in south-eastern Spain. Its population is 433,850 , and the population of its metropolitan area is 743,326 ranking as the ninth-largest metropolitan area of Spain....
 

Fort Caravaca de la Cruz
Caravaca de la Cruz

Caravaca de la Cruz is a town and municipality of southeastern Spain, in the province of Region of Murcia, near the left bank of the River Caravaca, a tributary of the Segura....

Navarre
Navarre

Navarre is a region in northern Spain, constituting one of its autonomous communities in Spain - the "Foral Community of Navarre" ....
 

Fort Javier Fort Olite Fort San Cristobal

Palencia
Palencia

Palencia is a city south of Tierra de Campos, in north-northwest Spain, the capital of the Palencia in the autonomous communities of Spain of Castile-Leon....

Fort Ampuedia Fort Belmonte de Campos Fort Sarmientos Fort Monzón de Campos

Palma de Mallorca
Palma de Mallorca

Palma is the major city and port on the island of Majorca and capital city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of the Balearic Islands in Spain....

Fort Bellver

Segovia
Segovia

Segovia is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Segovia in Castile and Leon. It is situated north of Madrid, and can be reached by bullet train in 35 minutes from Madrid at ....

Fort Segovia
Segovia

Segovia is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Segovia in Castile and Leon. It is situated north of Madrid, and can be reached by bullet train in 35 minutes from Madrid at ....
 Fort Castilnovo Fort de Coca Fort Duques de Albuquerque Fort Pedraza de la Sierra Fort Turégano

Soria
Soria

Soria is a city in north-central Spain, the capital of the Soria in the autonomous communities of Spain of Castile and Le?n. The municipality had a population of 39,078 in 2008 - nearly 40% of the population of the province....
 

Fort Almenar Fort Caracena Fort Berlanga de Duero
Berlanga de Duero

Berlanga de Duero is a municipality located in the Soria , Castile and Le?n, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 1,099 inhabitants....
 Fort Gormaz Fort Monteagudo de las Vicarías Fort Osma Fort Ucero

Tarragona
Tarragona

Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia and east of Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the Spanish Tarragona and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragon?s....

Fort Tamarit

Toledo
Toledo, Spain

Toledo is a city and municipality located in central Spain, 70 km south of Madrid. It is the capital city of the province of Toledo and of the autonomous communities of Spain of Castile-La Mancha....
 

Fort Toledo
Toledo, Spain

Toledo is a city and municipality located in central Spain, 70 km south of Madrid. It is the capital city of the province of Toledo and of the autonomous communities of Spain of Castile-La Mancha....
 Fort Carlos V Fort Guadamur Fort Montalbán Fort Sabiote

Valladolid
Valladolid

||-||} is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, upon the Pisuerga River and within the Ribera del Duero wine-making region. It is the capital of the Valladolid and of the autonomous communities of Spain of Castile and Leon, therefore is part of the historical region of Castile ....
 

Fort Encinas de Esgueva
Encinas de Esgueva

Encinas de Esgueva is a municipality located in the Valladolid , Castile and Le?n, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 340 inhabitants....
 Fort Fuensaldaña Fort Fuente del Sol Fort Iscar Fort de la Mota Fort de los Comuneros Fort Montealegre Fort Peñafiel
Peñafiel

Pe?afiel is a town in the province of Valladolid, Spain, best known for its :es:Castillo_de_Pe%C3%B1afiel and for its medieval square used for bullfights and named "el Coso"....
 Fort Portillo Fort Simancas
Simancas

Simancas is a town and municipality of central Spain, located in the province of Valladolid , part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon....
 Fort Villalba de los Alcores
Villalba de los Alcores

Villalba de los Alcores is a municipality located in the Valladolid , Castile and Le?n, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 537 inhabitants....
 Fort Villafuerte de Esgueva

Biscay
Biscay

Biscay is a province of the Basque Country in Spain.It is generally accepted that Bizkaia, the original Basque term, means something like 'mountain' or 'cliff'....
 

Fort Butrón Fort Villalonso Fort Serantes

Zaragoza
Zaragoza

Zaragoza, also called Saragossa in English language, is the capital city of the Zaragoza and of the Autonomous communities of Spain and former Kingdom of Aragon of Aragon, Spain....
 

Aljaferia
Aljafería

The Aljafer?a Palace is a fortified palace built during the second half of the eleventh century in Zaragoza, as the residence of the Banu Hud dynasty during the era of Abu Jaffar Al-Muqtadir and reflecting the splendor attained by the kingdom of the taifa of Zaragoza at the height of its grandeur....


Sweden

Bodens fästning
Boden Fortress

Boden Fortress is a modern fortification consisting of several major and minor forts and fortifications surrounding the city of Boden, Sweden, Norrbotten, in northern Sweden....
 Carlsten
Carlsten

Carlsten is a stone fortress located at Marstrand, on the western coast of Sweden. The fortress was built on the orders of King Charles X of Sweden following the Treaty of Roskilde, 1658 to protect the newly acquired province of Bohusl?n from hostile attacks....
 Bohus Fästning
Bohus Fortress

Bohus Fortress lies along the old Norway - Sweden border in Kung?lv, Bohusl?n, Sweden, north east from Hisingen where the G?ta ?lv splits into two branches ....
 Karlsborg Fortress
Karlsborg Fortress

Karlsborg Fortress is situated on the Vann?s peninsula in Karlsborg by lake V?ttern, the province of V?sterg?tland, Sweden. Construction on the fortress began 1819 to realize the so-called central defense idea adopted by the Swedish military after the Finnish War and Napoleonic Wars....


Taiwan (Republic of China
Republic of China

The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
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Fort Provintia
Fort Provintia

Chihkan Tower , formerly Fort Provintia in West Central District, Tainan, Tainan City was built in 1653 by the Dutch during Taiwan under Dutch rule of Taiwan....
 Fort Santo Domingo
Fort Santo Domingo

Fuerte Santo Domingo or Fort San Domingo was originally a wooden fort built by the Spain in 1629 at Tamsui Township on the northwestern coast of Taiwan....
 Fort Zeelandia
Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)

Fort Zeelandia was a fortress built over ten years from 1624–1634 by the Taiwan under Dutch rule Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, in the town of Anping on the island of Formosa, present day Taiwan, during their Taiwan under Dutch rule over the western part of it....
 Huwei Fort
Huwei Fort

Hobe Fort or Huwei Fort is located a short distance away from Fort Santo Domingo, near the town of Tamsui, Taipei on the island of Taiwan....


Turkey

Rumelihisari
Rumelihisari

Rumelihisari is a fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey, on a hill at the European side of the Bosporus just north of the Bebek district; giving the name of the quarter around it....
 Anadoluhisari
Anadoluhisari

Anadoluhisari is a fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian side of the Bosporus, which also gives its name to the quarter around it....


Ukraine

Dubno Castle
Dubno Castle

File:Castle in Dubno Ukraine.jpgThe Dubno Castle was founded in 1492 by Prince Konstantin Ostrogski on a promontory overlooking the Ikva River not far from the ancient Kievan Rusn fort of Dubno, Volhynia....
 Kiev fortress
Kiev fortress

Kiev fortress is a generic name for the 19th century fortification buildings situated in Ukraine capital Kiev , that once belonged to western Russian fortresses....
 Kodak Fortress
Kodak fortress

Kodak fortress was a fort built in 1635 by the order of Poland king Wladyslaw IV Vasa and the Sejm over the Dnieper River, near what was to become the town of Stari Kodaky ....
 Letychiv Fortress
Letychiv Fortress

File:Letichev.jpgLetychiv Fortress is a complex of limestone walls built in 1598 by :pl:Jan Potocki to defend Podolia from the regular raids of the Crimean Tatars....
 Lutsk Castle Lysa Hora
Lysa Hora

Lysa Hora is a large woody hill in the Ukraine capital Kiev , near the confluence of the Dnieper and Lybid' rivers. The mount supposedly takes its name from the fact that its top was not covered by trees....
 Medzhybizh Fortress
Medzhybizh Fortress

Medzhybizh Castle, when built as a bulwark against Ottoman expansion in the 1540s, was one of the strongest fortresses in Podolia. It is situated at the confluence of the Southern Bug and Buzhenka rivers, in the town of Medzhybizh, Ukraine....
 Okopy Swietej Trójcy Ostroh Castle
Ostroh Castle

The Ostroh Castle is a castle in the city of Ostroh, located in the Rivne Oblast of western Ukraine. The city of Ostroh was first mentioned in the 1100s....
 Sevastopol
Sevastopol

Sevastopol is a port in Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 . The city, formerly the home of the Soviet Union Black Sea Fleet, is now a Ukrainian naval base mutually used by the Ukrainian Navy and Russian Navy....
 Zaporizhian Sich
Zaporizhian Sich

Zaporizhian Sich original Ukrainian language name "Zaporizhska Sich'" was the center of the Zaporozhian Cossacks which was located on the Dnieper River in the Zaporizhia region of present-day Ukraine....


United Kingdom


See also the list of castles
List of castles

The List of castles is a link page for any castle in the sense of a fortified building....
, as many early forts were called castles, and many castle sites were reused for later fortifications.

England

General

Maunsell Sea Forts

SE England

Dymchurch Redoubt
Dymchurch Redoubt

Dymchurch Redoubt was built near Dymchurch, Kent, between 1804 and 1810 to support the associated Martello Towers. Like its twin Eastbourne Redoubt it was designed as a barracks and supply depot for the towers, and armed with 11 guns....
 Eastbourne Redoubt
Eastbourne Redoubt

Eastbourne Redoubt is a fort on what is now Royal Parade, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England....
 Fort Burgoyne
Fort Burgoyne

Fort Burgoyne, originally known as Castle Hill Fort, was built in the 1860s to guard the high ground northeast of Dover, United Kingdom. Built to a polygonal system with detached eastern and western redoubts, the fort is named after the 19th century General John Burgoyne, not the more famous John Burgoyne of the American Revolutionary W...
 Admiralty Pier Turret
Admiralty Pier Turret

Dover Turret, also known as the Admiralty Pier Turret, is an enclosed armoured turret built in 1882 on the western breakwater of Dover harbour. It contains 2 × 16", 80-ton guns, the biggest installed in the United Kingdom....
 Dover Western Heights
Dover Western Heights

The Western Heights of Dover are one of the most impressive fortifications in Britain. They comprise a series of forts, strong points and ditches, designed to protect the country from invasion....
 Littlehampton Redoubt
Littlehampton Redoubt

File:Littlehampton Redoubt 2.JPGLittlehampton Redoubt was built to protect the entrance to the River Arun at Littlehampton on the south coast of England....
 Newhaven Fort
Newhaven Fort

Newhaven Fort was built on the recommendation of the 1859 Royal Commission to defend the growing harbour at Newhaven, East Sussex, on the south coast of England....
 Saxon Shore Forts
Saxon Shore Forts

The Saxon Shore Forts is the collective name given to a system of forts built along the east and south-east coast of what is now England, during the latter centuries of the Roman Britain, as part of the wider fortification network known of the Saxon Shore, which extended across the English Channel....
 Shoreham Redoubt
Shoreham Redoubt

Shoreham Redoubt is a small 6?gun double battery at the end of the shingle spit protecting theentrance to Shoreham-by-Sea harbour, West Sussex....


Thames

Coalhouse Fort
Coalhouse Fort

Coalhouse Fort is a large casemated fort in East Tilbury, near Tilbury, in Thurrock, Essex, 4 kilometres downstream from Tilbury Fort....
 Cliffe Fort New Tavern Fort
New Tavern Fort

New Tavern Fort was built at Gravesend, Kent, Kent, England in the 1780s against the threat of invasion from France. It was one of the Palmerston Forts, Chatham, also known as Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom forts....
 Shornmead Fort Slough Fort
Slough Fort

Slough Fort is a small seven-gun Royal Commission fort built in the 1860s on the north of Medway, Kent near Allhallows-on-Sea. It is intact and being used as riding school stable....
 Tilbury Fort
Tilbury Fort

Tilbury Fort is on the north, Essex, bank of the River Thames in England and was built to defend London from attack from the sea, particularly during the Spanish Armada and the Anglo-Dutch Wars....


Medway

Fort Amherst
Fort Amherst

Fort Amherst, in Kent, England, was constructed in 1756 at the southern end of the Brompton lines of defence to protect the southeastern approaches to Chatham Dockyard and the River Medway against a French invasion....
 Fort Borstal
Fort Borstal

Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour between 1875 and 1885, to hold the high ground southwest of Rochester, Kent, Kent....
 Fort Bridgewood Fort Clarence
Fort Clarence

Fort Clarence is a now defunct fortification that was located in Rochester, Kent, Kent, England....
 Fort Darnet
Fort Darnet

Fort Darnet, like Fort Hoo was built on the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom on an island covering the inner navigable channel of the River Medway, Kent....
 Fort Luton
Fort Luton

Fort Luton was built between 1876 and 1892 south of Chatham, Kent, Kent, England. It has a polygonal trace. It was never armed, but took part in the war games held by the Army in the 1900s, including a trial siege in 1907....
 Fort Hoo
Fort Hoo

Fort Hoo, like Fort Darnet was built on the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom on an island covering the inner navigable channel of the River Medway, Kent....
 Fort Pitt
Fort Pitt, Kent

Fort Pitt was a fort built between 1805 and 1819 on the high ground of the boundary between Chatham, Kent and Rochester, Kent, Kent. It did not last long, becoming a hospital for invalid soldiers in 1828, with an mental hospital added in 1849....


Solent
Solent

The Solent is a stretch of sea separating the Isle of Wight from the mainland of United Kingdom.The Solent is a major shipping route for passengers, freight and military vessels....


Portsdown Hill
Portsdown Hill

Portsdown Hill is a long chalk hill in Hampshire, England, offering good views over Portsmouth, The Solent, Hayling Island and Gosport, with the Isle of Wight beyond....
 * Crookhorn Redoubt * Fort Fareham * Farlington Redoubt * Langstone Redoubt * Fort Nelson
Fort Nelson

Fort Nelson may refer to*Fort Nelson, British Columbia, a town*Fort Nelson River*Fort Nelson, Portsmouth, a fort in England*Fort Nelson , a fur trading post and the first headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company near Port Nelson, Manitoba....
 * Fort Southwick
Fort Southwick

Fort Southwick is one of the forts found on Portsdown Hill, which overlooks the naval base of Portsmouth in the county of Hampshire, England. It is the highest fort on the hill, and holds the water storage tanks for the other forts, supplying them via a brick lined aqueduct....
 * Fort Purbrook * Fort Wallington * Fort Widley Gosport
Gosport

Gosport is a town and Non-metropolitan district in Hampshire with around 79,000 resident inhabitants , with a further 5-10,000 during the summer months, situated on the south coast of England....
 * Fort Blockhouse
Fort Blockhouse

Fort Blockhouse is a military establishment in Gosport, Hampshire, England, and the final version of a complicated site. It is surrounded on 3 sides by water and provides the best view of the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour....
 * Fort Brockhurst
Fort Brockhurst

Fort Brockhurst is one of the Palmerston Forts, Portsmouth, in Gosport, England. It is now an English Heritage property.Fort Brockhurst was designed by William Crossman in the 19th century to protect Portsmouth....
 * Fort Elson * Fort Gilkicker
Fort Gilkicker

Fort Gilkicker is a Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom fort situated at the west end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire to dominate the key anchorage of Spithead....
 * Fort Grange * Fort Monckton * Fort Rowner Portsmouth
Portsmouth

Portsmouth city status in the United Kingdom located in the Counties of England of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is the UK's only island city and is located on Portsea Island....
 * Fort Cumberland
Fort Cumberland (England)

Fort Cumberland is a pentagonal artillery fortification erected to guard the entrance to Langstone Harbour, east of the naval port of Portsmouth on the south coast of England....
 * Lumps Fort Sea Forts * Horse Sand Fort
Horse Sand Fort

Horse Sand Fort is one of the larger Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom sea forts in the Solent off Portsmouth, Hampshire, England....
 * No Mans Land Fort
No Mans Land Fort

No Man's Land Fort was a fort built in the Solent as part of the Palmerston Forts, Portsmouth. It is 2.2 kilometres off the coast of the Isle of Wight between the years 1867 and 1880 to protect Portsmouth....
 * Spitbank Fort
Spitbank Fort

Spitbank Fort is a sea fort built as a result of the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom. The fort is located in the Solent, near Portsmouth, England....
 * St Helens Fort
St Helens Fort

St Helens Fort was built between 1867 and 1880 as a result of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, in the Solent close in to the Isle of Wight to protect the St Helens Road anchorage, it suffered badly from subsidence which forced many changes to the plans, ending up with 2 10" eighteen ton Rifled Muzzle Loader gun...
 Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight is an England island and county, located 3-8 km from the south coast of the mainland, in the English Channel. It is situated south of the county of Hampshire and is separated from mainland Britain by the Solent....
 * Fort Albert
Fort Albert

Fort Albert is a tower fort nestling under the cliffs west of Fort Victoria on the Isle of Wight, England. It was also known as Cliff End Fort, named after the Northern extremity of Colwell Bay ....
 * Fort Bembridge * Golden Hill Fort
Golden Hill Fort

Golden Hill Fort was a defensible barracks built as part of the Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston defences by the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom to provide manpower to man the defences at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England....
 * Needles Old Battery
The Needles

The Needles is a row of three distinctive stack of chalk that rise out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, England, close to Alum Bay....
 * Fort Victoria
Fort Victoria

Fort Victoria may refer to:* Fort Victoria , Canada* Fort Victoria , Canada* Fort Victoria * Fort Victoria , England* Masvingo, named Fort Victoria until 1982...


SW England Berry Head
Berry Head

Berry Head is a coastal headland at the southern end of Torbay, to the southeast of Brixham, Devon, England....
 Bristol Channel
Bristol Channel

The Bristol Channel is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England, and extending from the lower Severn Estuary of the River Severn to that part of the North Atlantic Ocean known as the Celtic Sea ....
 * Brean Down Fort
Brean Down Fort

Brean Down Fort was built above sea level on the headland at Brean Down, south of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.It was built in the 1860s as one of the Palmerston Forts to provide protection to the ports of the Bristol Channel and decommissioned in 1901....
 Dartmouth
Dartmouth, Devon

Dartmouth is a town in Devon in the south-west of England. It is a tourist destination set on the banks of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes....
 * Bayard's Cove Fort
Bayard's Cove Fort

Bayard's Cover Fort is a small early Tudor period artillery fort, built to defend the harbour entrance at Dartmouth, Devon, England.The tower was a third means of defence for the port, providing additional fire to protect the port should any enemy ships have broken past Dartmouth Castle and Kingswear Castle at the entrance of the cove....
 * Gallants Bower Plymouth
Plymouth

Plymouth is a City status in the United Kingdom and unitary authority on the coast of Devon, England, about south west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers River Plym to the east and River Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound....
 * Agaton Fort * Bowden Fort * Breakwater Fort * Cawsand Fort
Cawsand Fort

Cawsand Fort is sited just above the picturesque ex-smuggling village of Cawsand in south-east Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is three miles south of Torpoint....
 * Crownhill Fort
Crownhill Fort

Crownhill Fort is a Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom fort built in the 1860s in Crownhill as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth....
 * Egg Buckland Keep * Ernesettle Fort * Fort Austin * Fort Bovisand
Fort Bovisand

Fort Bovisand is a fort in Devon, England near the beach of Bovisand. It was built on the mainland to defend the entrance of Plymouth Sound, at the narrows opposite the east end of Plymouth Breakwater....
 * Fort Efford * Mount Edgcumbe Garden Battery * Picklecombe Fort
Picklecombe Fort

Fort Picklecombe stands on the extreme south eastern coast of Cornwall, a couple of miles west of the city of Plymouth. The fort has been a residential complex since the early 1970s but has a history dating back 150 years....
 * Polhawn Fort * Fort Scraesdon * Staddon Fort * Fort Tregantle
Fort Tregantle

Fort Tregantle in South East Cornwall is one of several of the Forts of Plymouth that were built as a result of a decision in Lord Palmerston's premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases on the Channel coast....
 * Whitesand Bay Battery * Woodlands Fort

Isle of Portland
Isle of Portland

The Isle of Portland is a limestone tied island, long by wide, in the English Channel. Portland is south of the resort of Weymouth, Dorset, forming the southernmost point of the county of Dorset, England....
 * Verne Citadel
Verne Citadel

Verne Citadel is a citadel on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. The citadel was started in 1847 at a camp for prisoners building Portland harbour's breakwater s, and was extended during the 1860s as a result of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, ending up with 8 Rifled Muzzle Loader guns with calibres up to 12"...
 * East Wear Battery
East Wear Battery

East Wear Battery is a gun battery to the east of the Verne Citadel on the Isle of Portland, in Dorset, England. The battery was built in the 1860s as a result of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom to guard the new Portland harbour and Royal Navy institutions on the island....
 * High Angle Battery
High Angle Battery

The High Angle Battery is a derelict fort built in 1892 on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. The battery was built as part of Britain's Coastal Defences in 1892 and is located in a disused Portland Stone quarry at the northern end of the island....
 Weymouth
Weymouth Bay

Weymouth Bay is a sheltered bay on the south coast of England, in Dorset. It is protected from erosion by Chesil Beach and the Isle of Portland, and includes several beaches, notably Weymouth Beach, a gently curving arc of golden sand which stretches from the resort of Weymouth, Dorset, along to the suburb of Greenhill, Dorset, and the vi...
 * Nothe Fort
Nothe Fort

Nothe Fort is a fort in Weymouth, Dorset, England. The fort is situated on the shore beside the northern breakwater of the ex-military Portland Harbour, and at the mouth of civilian Weymouth Harbour, Dorset....


East Anglia Bath Side Battery
Bath Side Battery

Bath Side Battery was built in 1811 to cover the anchorage of the port of Harwich, Essex, England as part of the same complex as the Harwich Redoubt, armed with 3 x 24 pdr cannon....
 Beacon Hill Battery
Beacon Hill Battery

Beacon Hill Battery was built to defend the port of Harwich, Essex.The first fortification built on the site was a blockhouse, constructed in 1534 during the reign of Henry VIII....
 Harwich Redoubt
Harwich Redoubt

Harwich Redoubt is a circular fort built in 1808 to defend the port of Harwich, Essex from Napoleonic invasion. The Harwich Society open it to the public....
 Landguard Fort
Landguard Fort

Built just outside Felixstowe, Suffolk at the mouth of the River Orwell, Landguard Fort was designed to guard the entrance to Harwich. The first fortifications from 1540 were a few earthworks and blockhouse, but it was James I of England who ordered the construction of a square fort with bulwarks at each corner....
 Shotley Battery
Shotley Battery

Shotley Battery was built in 1865 on the Shotley, Suffolk Peninsula to guard the port of Felixstowe, within HMS Ganges Naval Training school, on the same site as an existing Martello Tower....


NW England Liscard Battery Fort Perchrock

NE England The Humber Forts
Humber Forts

The Humber Forts are two large fortifications in the mouth of the Humber estuary in northern England: Haile Sand Fort and Bull Sand Fort ....
 Fort Paull
Fort Paull

Fort Paull is a gun battery situated on the north bank of the Humber, near the village of Paull, downstream from Kingston upon Hull in northern England....
 The Tyne Turrets
Tyne Turrets

The Tyne Turrets were two 12" guns from HMS Illustrious , installed in Roberts Battery at Hartley, Northumberland, near Seaton Sluice north of the River Tyne, and Kitchener Battery in Marsden, Tyne and Wear near Lizard Point south of the river....


Wales


Milford Haven
Milford Haven

Milford Haven is a town in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales. It was founded as a whaling centre in the 18th century and grew into a major port....
 * Chapel Bay Battery * Dale Fort
Dale Fort

Dale Fort is a battery site to the West of Milford Haven, Wales.Occupied from Elizabethan times to the present day, the main buildings were built for the military protection of Milford Haven in the 1850s, but the most unusual feature is its use for trials of Edmund Zalinski's Pneumatic Dynamite Gun in the 1890s....
 * Fort Hubberstone
Fort Hubberstone

Fort Hubberstone, on the west side of Milford Haven , Pembrokeshire, was started in 1858 just before the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom; it was completed in 1863....
 * Popton Fort
Popton Fort

Popton Fort is a Palmerston fort completed in 1864 as part of the inner line of defence of Milford Haven together with Fort Hubberstone on the opposite bank....
 * Fort Scoveston * Stack Rock Fort
Stack Rock Fort

Stack Rock Fort is a Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom fort built on a small island in Milford Haven , Pembrokeshire. Built between 1859 and 1871 with 16 10" and 7 9" Rifled Muzzle Loader, changed to 4 12 pdr QF guns in 1902....
 * Thorn Island Fort
Thorn Island

Thorn Island is in the Community of Angle, Pembrokeshire off the south west coast of Wales. The island is dominated by a fort that was built to defend Milford Haven from the French Navy....
 Fort Belan
Fort Belan

Fort Belan is a Grade I Listed building in North Wales Wales, at the south-western end of the Menai Strait opposite Abermenai Point, on the coast of Gwynedd....


Scotland

:See also: List of hill forts in Scotland
List of hill forts in Scotland

This page lists hill forts in Scotland. Hill forts typically date from the Bronze Age and Iron Ages. Typically, they only survive as earthworks today, although remains of vitrified forts are found throughout Scotland....
 and List of castles in Scotland Fort Charlotte
Fort Charlotte

Fort Charlotte in the centre of Lerwick, Shetland, is a five sided artillery fort, with bastions on each corner.The first incarnation of the fort was built between 1652-3 during the First Anglo-Dutch War....
,Shetland Fort George, Scotland

United States


Alabama

Fort Gaines from Fort Louis de la Mobile Fort Morgan

Alaska

Fort Greely
Fort Greely

Fort Greely is a United States Army launch site for anti-ballistic missiles located approximately 100 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. It is also the home of the Cold Regions Test Center , as Fort Greely is one of the coldest areas in Alaska, and can accommodate cold, extreme cold, or temperate weather tests depending on the season....
 Fort Richardson
Fort Richardson

Fort Richardson is a United States Army installation in the U.S. state of Alaska, adjacent to the city of Anchorage, Alaska....
 Fort Wainwright
Fort Wainwright

Fort Wainwright is a United States Army post adjacent to Fairbanks, Alaska in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is part of the Fairbanks, Alaska United States metropolitan area....
 Fort Yukon

Arizona

Fort Apache
Fort Apache Indian Reservation

File:WM Apaches.jpgThe Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, United States, is an Indian Reservation encompassing parts of Gila County, Arizona, Apache County, Arizona, and Navajo County, Arizona....
 Fort Badger Fort Bowie
Fort Bowie

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 Buchanan
Fort Buchanan, Arizona

Fort Buchanan, Arizona was located 3 miles west of present day Sonoita, Arizona, in what is now called "Hog Canyon". The Fort was located on the East slope of the canyon and under constant attack by Native Americans in the United States....
 Fort Defiance
Fort Defiance, Arizona

Fort Defiance is a census-designated place in Apache County, Arizona, Arizona, United States. The population was 4,061 at the United States Census, 2000....
 Fort Grant Fort Huachuca
Fort Huachuca

Fort Huachuca is a United States Army military base under the command of the United States Army Installation Management Command. It is located in Cochise County, in southeast Arizona, about 15 miles north of the border with Mexico....
 Lee's Fort Fort Lowell Fort McDonald Fort McDowell Fort Milligan Fort Misery Fort Mojave Fort Rock Fort Tyson (Charles) Fort Utah Fort Verde
Fort Verde State Historic Park

Fort Verde State Historic Park in the town of Camp Verde, Arizona, is a small park that attempts to preserve parts of the Indian Wars-era fort as it appeared in the 1880s....
 Fort Whipple
Fort Whipple, Arizona

Fort Whipple was a U.S. Army post which served as Arizona Territory's capital prior to the founding of Prescott, Arizona. The post was founded in January 1864 in Chino Valley, Arizona, but was moved in May 1864 to Granite Creek near the present day location of Prescott....
 Fort Yuma
Fort Yuma

Fort Yuma was a historic fort in California, located across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona.First established November 27, 1850, near the Gila River on the Arizona side, it was moved in 1850 to across the river from Yuma, Arizona ....


California

Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island, commonly referred to as simply Alcatraz or locally as The Rock, is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States....
 Benicia Arsenal
Benicia Arsenal

The Benicia Arsenal was a large military reservation located next to Suisun Bay in Benicia, California. For over 100 years, the arsenal was the primary US Army Ordnance facility for the West Coast of the United States....
 Drum Barracks
Drum Barracks

The Drum Barracks, also known as Camp Drum and the Drum Barracks Civil War Museum, is the last remaining original American Civil War era military facility in the Los Angeles, California area....
 Fort Humboldt
Fort Humboldt State Historic Park

Fort Humboldt State Historic Park, is a California State Park located in the southern portion of the city of Eureka, California, just off U.S. Route 101....
 Fort MacArthur
Fort MacArthur

Fort MacArthur is a former U.S. Army installation in San Pedro, California , named for General Arthur MacArthur, Jr.In 1888 President Grover Cleveland designated an area overlooking San Pedro Bay as an unnamed military reservation intended to improve the defenses of the expanding Los Angeles harbor area....
 Fort Point Fort Tejon
Fort Tejon

Fort Tejon, California, is a former United States Army outpost which was intermittently active from June 24, 1854, until September 11, 1864. It is located in the Grapevine, California area of Tejon Pass along Interstate 5, the main route through the mountains separating California's Central Valley from Los Angeles....
 Presidio of Monterey Presidio of San Diego
Presidio of San Diego

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 Presidio of San Francisco
Presidio of San Francisco

The Presidio of San Francisco is a park on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area....
 Presidio of Santa Barbara
Presidio of Santa Barbara

The El Presidio Real de Santa B?rbara, also known as the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, was a military installation in Santa Barbara, California....
 Fort Ord
Fort Ord

Fort Ord was a U.S. Army post on Monterey Bay in California. It was established in 1917 as a maneuver area and field artillery target range and was closed in September 1994....
 Fort Ross Fort Hunter Liggett
Fort Hunter Liggett

Fort Hunter Liggett, named after General Hunter Liggett, is a United States Army fort in southern Monterey County, California, about 250 miles north of Los Angeles, California and 150 miles south of San Francisco, California....


Colorado

Bent's New Fort Bent's Old Fort
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Bent's Old Fort is an 1833 fort located in Otero County, Colorado, Colorado, USA. William Bent and Charles Bent, along with Ceran St. Vrain, built the fort to trade with Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Plains Indians and trappers for American Bison robes....
 Fort Big Spring Fort Carson Fort Cass Fort Collins Fort Convenience Fort Craig Fort Crawford Fort Davy Crockett Fort Dominguez Fort Fisher Fort Flagler Fort Fraeb Fort Gantt Fort Garland
Fort Garland

Fort Garland , Colorado. Designed to house 2 companies of soldiers to protect settlers in the San Luis Valley, which was the Territory of New Mexico....
 Fort George Fort Gerry I Fort Gerry II Fort Independence Fort Jackson Fort Juana Fort Julesburg Fort Lancaster
Fort Lancaster

Fort Lancaster, one in a series of forts erected along the western Texas frontier, is located in the Pecos River in Crockett County, Texas, United States, on 82 acres....
 Fort Leche Fort Lewis Fort Logan Fort Lookout Fort Lupton Fort Massachusetts Fort Maurice le Doux Fort Meeker Fort Misery Fort Moore Fort Morgan Fort Namaqua Fort Narraguinnep Fort Nepesta Fort Pagosa Fort Pueblo Fort Reynolds Fort Roubidoux Fort Saint Vrain
Fort Saint Vrain

Fort St. Vrain was a former fur trade post in the Nebraska Territory. A historical marker notes the place where Old Fort St. Vrain once stood, located about seven miles north of Fort Vasquez, at the end of Weld County Road 40 in present-day Colorado....
 Fort Sanders Fort Sangre de Cristo Fort Schofield Fort Sedgwick Fort Sheridan Fort Spaulding Fort Uncompahgre Fort Vasquez
Fort Vasquez

Fort Vasquez is a former fur trade post 35 miles NE of Denver, Colorado founded by Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette in 1835. Restored by the Works Progress Administration in 1930s, it now lies in a rather incongruous position as US85 now splits to run either side of the building....
 Fort Wardwell Fort Weld Fort Wicked Fort William Fort Wise Milk Fort New Fort Lyon Old Fort Lyon Peebles Fort Robert Fisher's Fort Roubideaux's Old Fort Sharps Trading Fort Spanish Fort

Connecticut

Fort Griswold
Fort Griswold

File:Fort Griswold plan.gifFort Griswold is an United States military base, now decommissioned, in Groton, Connecticut. Named after then Deputy Governor Matthew Griswold , the fort played a key role in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War....
 Fort Nathan Hale
Fort Nathan Hale

Fort Nathan Hale is a City Park located on the east shore of New Haven Harbor in New Haven, Connecticut. The American Revolution-era fort was named after Nathan Hale, Connecticut's official hero....
 Fort Trumbull
Fort Trumbull

Fort Trumbull was a fort built at New London, Connecticut, Connecticut.In 1775 Governor Jonathan Trumbull recommended the building of a fortification at the port of New London to protect the seat of the government of Connecticut....


Delaware

Fort Casimir
Fort Casimir

Fort Casimir was a Dutch colonization of the Americas in New Netherland, located in what is now New Castle County. Built in 1651, it was taken by Johan Rising of New Sweden three years later, on Trinity Sunday, renaming it Fort Trefaldigheets ....
 Fort Christina
Fort Christina

Fort Christina was the first Sweden settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony. Built in 1638 and named after Christina of Sweden, it was located approximately 1 mi east of the present downtown Wilmington, Delaware, at the confluence of the Brandywine Creek and the Christina River, approximately 2 mi...
 Fort Delaware
Fort Delaware

Fort Delaware is a harbor defense facility built in 1859 on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River. During the American Civil War, the United States used Fort Delaware as a prison for Confederate States of America Prisoner of war....
 Fort du Pont
Fort DuPont State Park

Fort DuPont State Park is a List of Delaware state parks located in Delaware City, Delaware. The fort itself, named after Rear Admiral Samuel Francis duPont, was used as a military base from the American Civil War through World War II, and was part of a three fort defense system, with Fort Delaware and Fort Mott with the purpose of protectin...
 Fort Miles
Fort Miles

Fort Miles was an United States military installation located on Cape Henlopen near Lewes, Delaware, Delaware. Although funds to build the fort were approved in 1934, it was 1941 before the fort was constructed....


Florida


Georgia

Fort Frederica Fort King George
Fort King George

Fort King George is a fort located in the U.S. state of Georgia . The fort was built in 1721 and served as the southernmost outpost of the British colonies in the Americas until Fort Frederica National Monument was built in 1736....
 Fort Hawkins Old Fort Jackson Fort McAllister
Fort McAllister

Fort McAllister may refer to:*Fort McAllister Historic Park, a Georgia state park located near Keller, Georgia and Richmond Hill in South Bryan County, Georgia ....
 Fort Pulaski

Hawaii

Fort DeRussy
Fort DeRussy (Hawaii)

Fort DeRussy is a United States military reservation in the Waikiki area of Honolulu, Hawaii under the jurisdiction of the United States Army....
 Fort Kamehameha Russian Fort Elizabeth
Russian Fort Elizabeth

Russian Fort Elizabeth is a fort on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. It is the last remaining Russian fort in Hawaii, which were built in the early 19th century as the result of an alliance between High Chief Kaumualii and the Russian-American Company in its attempt to gain influence in Hawaii....


Idaho

Fort Hall
Fort Hall

Fort Hall was a 19th century outpost in the eastern Oregon Country, part of the present-day United States, and is located in Fort Hall, Idaho. It was considered the "most significant of all pioneer institutions in the West" by noted historian Merrill D....


Illinois

Fort de Chartres
Fort de Chartres

Fort de Chartres was a France fortification first built in 1720 on the east bank of the Mississippi River in present-day Illinois. The Fort de Chartres name was also applied to the two successive fortifications built nearby during the 1700s in the era of French colonial control over Louisiana and the Illinois Country....
 Fort Clark
Fort Clark

Fort Clark can refer to:*Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site - one of the largest Mandan Villages where George Catlin and Karl Bodmer visited...
 Fort Kaskaskia

Indiana

Fort Granville
Forts of Vincennes, Indiana

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the French, British and American nations built and occupied a number of forts at Vincennes, Indiana. These outposts commanded a strategic position on the Wabash River....
 Fort Knox
Forts of Vincennes, Indiana

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the French, British and American nations built and occupied a number of forts at Vincennes, Indiana. These outposts commanded a strategic position on the Wabash River....
 Fort Miami
Forts of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne in modern Fort Wayne, Indiana, was established by Captain Jean Fran?ois Hamtramck under orders from General Anthony Wayne as part of the campaign against the Miami tribe of the area....
 Fort Ouiatenon
Fort Ouiatenon

Fort Ouiatenon was the first fortified European settlement in what is now called Indiana. It was a French trading post at the joining of the Tippecanoe River and the Wabash River located approximately three miles southwest of modern-day West Lafayette, Indiana....
 Fort Patrick Henry
Forts of Vincennes, Indiana

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the French, British and American nations built and occupied a number of forts at Vincennes, Indiana. These outposts commanded a strategic position on the Wabash River....
 Fort Vincennes
Forts of Vincennes, Indiana

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the French, British and American nations built and occupied a number of forts at Vincennes, Indiana. These outposts commanded a strategic position on the Wabash River....
 Fort Wayne
Forts of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne in modern Fort Wayne, Indiana, was established by Captain Jean Fran?ois Hamtramck under orders from General Anthony Wayne as part of the campaign against the Miami tribe of the area....


Iowa


Kansas

Fort Atkinson
Fort Atkinson

Fort Atkinson is the name of three locations in the United States:*Fort Atkinson, Iowa, a town named after General Atkinson*Fort Atkinson , 1820s U.S. Army post...
 Fort Aubrey Fort Bain Fort Belmont Fort Bissell Fort Blair Fort Brooks Fort de Cavagnial Fort Cavagnolle A.P. Chouteau's Fort Fort Clinton
Fort Clinton

Fort Clinton was an American Revolutionary War fortification in Orange County, New York, and a companion to Fort Montgomery . Its garrison of 300 was smaller than that of Fort Montgomery, but Fort Clinton was built on a ridge at the mouth of the Popolopen Gorge, overlooking the Hudson River, and its defenses were more complete....
 Fort Defiance
Fort Defiance

Fort Defiance may refer to:United States*Fort Defiance, a now defunct American Old West theme park established near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in the 1950s; it was demolished in 1981 by the National Park Service as part of their ongoing program to restore the historical authenticity of the Gettysburg Battlefield....
 Fort Dodge Fort Downer Fort Ellsworth
Fort Ellsworth

Fort Ellsworth was a timber and Earthworks fortification constructed west of Alexandria, Virginia, as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War....
 Fort Expedient Fort Fletcher Fort Folly Fort Franklin, Iowa Fort Harker
Fort Harker

Fort Harker can refer to several different historical military fortifications in the United States:* Fort Harker * Fort Harker ...
 Fort Hays
Fort Hays

Fort Hays was an important frontier outpost of the United States Army located in northwestern Kansas between 1865 and 1889. Fort Hays was the home of several well-known Indian wars regiments including the 7th Cavalry Regiment , the 5th Infantry Regiment , and the 10th Cavalry Regiment , whose black troopers were better known as buffalo soldie...
 Fort Henning Fort Humboldt Fort Insley Fort Jewell Fort Kansas Fort Kanses Fort Lane Fort Larned National Historic Site
Fort Larned National Historic Site

File:Fort Larned quartermaster's building.jpgFort Larned National Historic Site, located just west of Larned, Kansas, Kansas, United States, preserves Fort Larned, which was established in 1859 as a base of military operations against hostile Indians of the Central Plains, to protect traffic along the Santa Fe Trail and as an agency f...
 Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth

Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army facility located in Leavenworth County, Kansas in the upper northeast portion of the state. It is the oldest active U.S....
 Fort Lecompton Fort Lincoln
Fort Lincoln

Fort Lincoln may refer to:*Fort Abraham Lincoln, an old military post near Mandan, North Dakota now operated as a state park*Fort Lincoln, North Dakota, former military post and detention center near Bismarck...
 Fort Lookout
Fort Lookout

Fort Lookout was the site of a Civil War engagement within the Camden Expedition.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, and, with other sites, is part of the Camden Expedition Sites....
 Fort McKean Fort Mann Fort Montgomery
Fort Montgomery

Fort Montgomery is the name of a fortification built on the Hudson River during the American Revolution. It was one of the first major investments by the Americans in strategic construction projects....
 Fort Monument Fort Podunk Fort Pyramid Fort Riley
Fort Riley

Fort Riley is a United States Army List of United States Army installations located in Northeast Kansas, on the Kansas River, between Junction City, Kansas and Manhattan, Kansas....
 Fort Roach Fort Saunders Fort Scott
Fort Scott

General Winfield Scott, former General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army, was the namesake for five places named Fort Scott:*Fort Scott, Kansas, a city that grew up around a military fort of the same name...
 Fort Simple Fort Sod Fort Sodom Fort Solomon Fort Sumner
Fort Sumner

Fort Sumner was a Fortification in De Baca County, New Mexico in southeastern New Mexico charged with the internment of Navajo Nation and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863-1868 at nearby Bosque Redondo....
 Fort Titus Fort de la Trinité Fort Village Fort Wakarusa Fort Wallace Fort Wichita Fort Wyncoop Fort Zarah
Fort Zarah

A fort in Great Bend, Kansas, that was used from 1864-1869....


Kentucky

Fort Campbell Fort Knox
Fort Knox

Fort Knox is a United States United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville, Kentucky and north of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The base, , covers parts of Bullitt County, Kentucky, Hardin County, Kentucky, and Meade County, Kentucky counties, with Hardin county receiving the largest benefit, economically....
 Fort Nelson
Fort Nelson

Fort Nelson may refer to*Fort Nelson, British Columbia, a town*Fort Nelson River*Fort Nelson, Portsmouth, a fort in England*Fort Nelson , a fur trading post and the first headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company near Port Nelson, Manitoba....
 Fort William
Fort William

Fort William may refer to placesIn Canada:*Fort William, Ontario, a Canadian city which, together with Port Arthur, became part of Thunder Bay in 1970...
 Fort at the Falls Spring Fort

Louisiana

Fort Polk
Fort Polk

Fort Polk is a United States Army base located near Leesville, Louisiana. Its primary ZIP code is 71459....


Maine

Fort Baldwin
Fort Baldwin

Fort Baldwin, a coastal defense land battery near the mouth of the Kennebec River in Phippsburg, Maine, United States, was named after Jeduthan Baldwin, an engineer for the Colonial army during the American Revolution....
 Fort Gorges
Fort Gorges

Fort Gorges is a United States military fort built on Hog Island Ledge in Casco Bay, Maine....
 Fort Halifax
Fort Halifax (Maine)

Fort Halifax was a United States Colonialism outpost on the Kennebec River at modern-day Winslow, Maine, Maine. It is a National Historic Landmark....
 (Maine) Fort Kent
Fort Kent

Fort Kent may refer to:*Fort Kent, Maine, town in Maine, U.S.A.*Fort Kent , fort in Maine, U.S.A....
 Fort Knox
Fort Knox, Maine

Fort Knox, now Fort Knox State Park, in Maine was built from 1844-1869. It is located on the western bank of the Penobscot River in Prospect, Maine, about from the mouth of the river....
 (Maine) Fort McClary
Fort McClary

Fort McClary was a defensive fortification of the United States military located along the southern coast of Maine at Kittery Point, Maine, the seaside district of Kittery, Maine....
 Fort Pentagouet
Fort Pentagouet

Fort Pentagouet was a French constructed fort from the early times of Acadia. The French were expanding their activities into the Penobscot area which was a rich fur trading area....
 Fort Popham
Fort Popham

Fort Popham is a coastal defense land battery at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Phippsburg, Maine, United States. It is located in sight of the short-lived Popham Colony and, like the colony, named for George Popham, the colony's leader....


Maryland

Fort Carroll
Fort Carroll

Fort Carroll is a 3.4 acre artificial island and abandoned fort in the middle of the Patapsco River, just south of Baltimore, Maryland. The fort was used in the 1800s....
 Fort Detrick
Fort Detrick

Fort Detrick is a U.S. Army Medical Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland, USA. Historically, Fort Detrick was the center for the U.S....
 Fort Frederick
Fort Frederick

Fort Frederick may refer to:in Canada*Fort Frederick , Ontarioin the United States*Fort Frederick , Albany, New York*Fort Frederick State Park, Maryland...
 Fort McHenry
Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland, is a Star fort best known for its role in the War of 1812 when it successfully defended Inner Harbor from an attack by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Navy in the Chesapeake Bay....
 Fort Washington
Fort Washington Park

Fort Washington, located near Fort Washington, Maryland, was for many decades the only defensive fort protecting Washington D.C. The original fort was completed in 1809....
 (Maryland)

Massachusetts

Fort Banks
Fort Banks

File:BL 9.2 inch Mk X gun Cape Banks 1946 AWM 129987.jpegFile:1aBanksbatrycapebnks0033.JPGFort Banks is an old World War II bunker and fortification complex that was used to protect the approaches to Botany Bay....
 Fort Independence
Fort Independence (Massachusetts)

Fort Independence is a granite fortress that provided harbor defenses for Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Today it is preserved as a state park and fires occasional ceremonial salutes....
 Fort Warren
Fort Warren (Massachusetts)

Fort Warren is a historic fort on the 28-acre Georges Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor. The fort is pentagonal, made with Rock and granite, and was constructed from 1833-1861, completed shortly after the beginning of the American Civil War....


Michigan


Fort de Buade
Fort de Buade

Fort de Buade was a French colonization of the Americas fort at the present site of St. Ignace, Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was garrisoned between 1683 and 1701....
 Fort Detroit
Fort Detroit

Fort Pontchartrain du D?troit or Fort D?troit was a fort established by the France officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac in 1701. The location of the former fort is now in the city of Detroit, Michigan in the U.S....
 Fort Holmes
Fort Holmes

Fort Holmes was a fortified redoubt located on the highest point of Mackinac Island. Originally built in 1812 by British forces during the War of 1812, the redoubt was improved by that army throughout the course of the war to help defend the adjacent Fort Mackinac from a possible attack by the U.S....
 Fort Mackinac
Fort Mackinac

Fort Mackinac was a military outpost garrisoned from the late 18th century to the late 19th century on Mackinac Island in the U.S. state of Michigan....
 Fort Miami
Fort Miami (Michigan)

Fort Miami was a fort on the bank of the St. Joseph River at the site of the present-day city of St. Joseph, Michigan, in the United States.It was established in November 1679 by a band of French colonization of the Americas explorers led by Ren? Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on the banks of what was then called the River Miami as a m...
 Fort Michilimackinac
Fort Michilimackinac

Fort Michilimackinac was an 18th century France, and later Kingdom of Great Britain, fort and trading post in the Great Lakes of North America....
 Fort St. Joseph
Fort St. Joseph (Niles)

Fort Saint Joseph was a fort originally established on land granted to the Jesuits by King Louis XIV located on what is now the south side of the present day town of Niles, Michigan....
 Fort St. Joseph
Fort St. Joseph (Port Huron)

A short lived New France Fort established in 1686 by Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut. Its heyday was in 1687 when about two hundred coureurs de bois, about five hundred Algonquian peoples, Henri de Tonti, Nicholas Perrot, Oliver Morel de La Durantaye, and thirty French solders gathered there under Marquis de Denonvilles orders to prepare for an a...
, rebuilt as Fort Gratiot Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne (Detroit)

Fort Wayne is located in the city of Detroit, Michigan, Michigan, at the foot of Livernois Avenue in the Delray, Michigan neighborhood. The fort is situated on the Detroit River at a point where it is about a mile to the Canada shore....


Minnesota

Fort St. Charles
Fort St. Charles

Fort St. Charles was a secure trading post constructed in 1732 by La V?rendrye's nephew, Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and his eldest son Jean Baptiste de La V?rendrye....
 Fort Snelling

Mississippi

Fort Massachusetts
Fort Massachusetts (Mississippi)

Fort Massachusetts is a fort on Ship Island along the Mississippi Gulf Coast of the United States. It was built following the War of 1812 and remained in use until 1903....
 Fort Maurepas
Fort Maurepas

Not to be confused with the Fort Maurepas built in 1699 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville and Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in present-day Ocean Springs, Mississippi....


Missouri

Fort Independence Fort Leonard Wood
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

Fort Leonard Wood is a census-designated place in Pulaski County, Missouri, Missouri, United States. The population was 13,666 at the 2000 census....


Montana

Fort Assinniboine
Fort Assinniboine

Fort Assinniboine, a fort in Montana and within the military Department of Dakota, was built in 1879, in the aftermath of the Great Sioux War of 1876-77 and the disastrous defeat of U.S....
 Fort C.F. Smith Fort Ellis
Fort Ellis

File:SoldiersAtFortEllisMontanaTerritory1871.jpgFort Ellis was an early United States Army outpost established August 27, 1867 to the eastern side of present-day Bozeman, Montana....
 Fort Keogh
Fort Keogh

Fort Keogh is located on the western edge of Miles City, Montana, Montana. Originally a military post, today it is a United States Department of Agriculture livestock and range research station....
 Fort Parker
Fort Parker

This article is about the fort in Montana; for the fort in Texas see Fort Parker massacre.The Treaty of Fort Laramie , which closed travel on the Bozeman Trail and the Yellowstone Valley, stipulated that the re-defined Crow Reserve would have a new ?centerpoint? or agency for the Crow....


Nebraska

Alkali Station Armas de Francia Fort Atkinson (Nebraska)
Fort Atkinson (Nebraska)

Fort Atkinson was the first United States Army post to be established west of the Missouri River in the United States. Located just east of present-day Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, the fort was erected in 1819 and abandoned in 1827....
 Camp Augur Beauvais Station Post Fort Beaver Valley Fort Bellevue Bordeaux Trading Post Cabanné's Post Fort Calhoun Fort Carlos Fort Charles Fort Childs Fort Clarke Columbia Fur Co. Post Columbus Post
Columbus Post

The Columbus Post is a weekly newspaper devoted to the African American audience of Columbus, Ohio....
 Fort Cottonwood Post Cottonwood Springs Camp Council Bluff Cantonment Council Bluffs Fort Crook Crooks & McClelland Post Cruzatte's Post Elm Creek Fort Fontenelle's Post
Fontenelle's Post

Fontenelle's Post, first known as Pilcher's Post and also the basis of the community of Bellevue, Nebraska, was built in 1822 in the Nebraska Territory by trader Joshua Pilcher, as president of the Missouri Fur Company....
 Fort Gillette Gilman's Station Post Post at Grand Island
Grand Island, Nebraska

Grand Island is a city in and the county seat of Hall County, Nebraska, Nebraska, United States. The population was 42,940 at the 2000 United States Census....
 Fort Grattan Fort Hartsuff Fort Heath Fort Independence
Fort Independence

Fort Independence is the name of several forts in the United States:* Fort Independence — A U.S. Cavalry fort during the 1860s, now site of the Fort Independence Indian Reservation near the Inyo County seat of Independence....
 Junction Station Post Camp Kearny Fort Kearny
Fort Kearny

Fort Kearny was a historic outpost of the United States Army founded in 1848 in the western U.S. during the middle and late 19th century. The outpost was located along the Oregon Trail near present-day Kearney, Nebraska, which took its name from the fort ....
 Camp Keya Paha Fort Kiowa
Fort Kiowa

Fort Kiowa was an American Fur Company trading post on the Missouri River near Oacoma, South Dakota, South Dakota. It was originally named "Fort Lookout". The site is now underwater....
 Liberty Pole Camp Fort Lisa
Fort Lisa

Fort Lisa was established in 1812 by famed fur trader Manuel Lisa and the Missouri Fur Company in the present-day neighborhood of North Omaha, Nebraska in Nebraska....
 Little Blue Station Post Mackay's House Camp McKean Cantonment McKean Fort McPherson
Fort McPherson

Fort McPherson is a U.S. Army military base located in East Point, Georgia, on the southwest edge of Atlanta. It is home to the headquarters for the Installation Management Command, Southeast Region; U.S....
 Camp Meiklejohn Military Bridge Camp Fort Mirage Flats Camp Missouri Cantonment Missouri Camp Mitchell Fort Mitchell
Fort Mitchell

Fort Mitchell may refer to a community in the United States:*Fort Mitchell, Alabama*Fort Mitchell, Kentucky...
 Fort Montrose Mullaly's Ranch Post Fort Niobrara North Platte Station O'Fallon's Bluffs Post Omaha Barracks Fort Omaha
Fort Omaha

Fort Omaha, originally known as Sherman Barracks and then Omaha Barracks, is an Indian War-era United States Army supply installation....
 Omaha Post Post of the Otos Pawnee Post Pawnee Ranch Post Pilcher's Post Plum Creek Post Ponca Fort
Ponca Fort

Nanza is the Ponca name for what is now called Ponca Fort. It was a fortified village built by the Ponca in the vicinity of present-day Niobrara, Nebraska, USA, in circa 1700 and occupied until about 1865....
 (Nanza) Ponca Post Camp Recovery Camp Red Willow Robideaux Pass Post Camp Robinson Fort Robinson
Fort Robinson

Fort Robinson is a former United States Army fort and a present-day state park. Located in the Pine Ridge region of northwest Nebraska, it is west of Crawford, Nebraska on U.S....
 St. Deroin Fort Camp Sargent Sarpy's Post Camp Saunders Camp Sheridan
Camp Sheridan

Camp Sheridan was established near the Spotted Tail Agency in northwestern Nebraska in March 1874. The garrison was abandoned seven years later in May 1881....
 Fort Sheridan Sherman Barracks Camp Sherman Camp Shuman Sidney Barracks Fort Sidney
Fort Sidney

The 37th Infantry Regiment established "Sidney Station" at a point midway between the Platte Rivers, where the modern community of Sidney, Nebraska, now stands....
 Post at Spotted Tail Agency

Nevada

Fort Churchill
Fort Churchill

Fort Churchill has several uses including:* Fort Churchill State Historic Park, Lyon County, Nevada, USA, a National Historic Landmark site* Churchill, Manitoba or Prince of Wales Fort...
 Fort Halleck

New Hampshire

Fort Constitution Fort at Number 4
Fort at Number 4

The Fort at Number 4 was the northernmost English people settlement along the Connecticut River in New Hampshire until after the French and Indian War....
 Fort Stark Fort Wentworth
Fort Wentworth

Fort Wentworth was built by order of Benning Wentworth in 1755. The fort was built at the junction of the Upper Ammonoosuc River and Connecticut River, in Northumberland, New Hampshire, by soldiers of Colonel Joseph Blanchard's New Hampshire Provincial Regiment including Robert Rogers ....
 Fort William and Mary
Fort William and Mary

Fort William and Mary was a colonial defensive post at New Castle, New Hampshire, New Hampshire. First fortified in 1632 on the island of New Castle at the mouth of the Piscataqua River estuary, the fort guarded access to the harbor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire....


New Jersey

Fort Lee
Fort Lee

Fort Lee may refer to:* Fort Lee , a former fort in Massachusetts* Fort Lee, New Jersey* Fort Lee, Virginia* SS Fort Lee, a World War II tanker ship named after both of the above towns...
 Fort Dix Fort Hancock, New Jersey
Fort Hancock, New Jersey

Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort located in Middletown Township, New Jersey in Monmouth County, New Jersey, along the Atlantic Ocean coast of eastern New Jersey in the United States....
 Fort Monmouth
Fort Monmouth

Fort Monmouth is an installation of the Department of the Army in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The post is surrounded by the communities of Eatontown, New Jersey, Tinton Falls, New Jersey and Oceanport, New Jersey, New Jersey, and is located about one mile from the Atlantic Ocean....
 Fort Mott
Fort Mott

Fort Mott may refer to two forts in what is the present-day United States:*Fort Mott in New Jersey*Fort Mott in Vermont...
 Forts of New Netherland Fort Nonsense (Morristown, New Jersey)

New Mexico

Fort Bascom
Fort Bascom

Fort Bascom is located in New Mexico on the Canadian River slightly west of the Texas border. It was one of a series of forts established by General James Henry Carleton to control the Comanches and Kiowas who frequented the Staked Plains of Texas and Rio Grande River....
 Fort Bayard
Bayard, New Mexico

Bayard is a city in Grant County, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States. The population was 2,534 at the 2000 United States Census....
 Fort Craig
Fort Craig

Fort Craig was a U.S. Army Fortification located along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, near the Rio Grande in Socorro County, New Mexico.The Fort Craig site was approximately 1,050 feet east-west by 600 feet north-south and was located on 40 acres ....
 Fort Cummings Fort Fauntleroy (aka Fort Wingate
Fort Wingate

Fort Wingate is located near Gallup, New Mexico. There were two locations in New Mexico that had this name. The first one was located near San Rafael....
) Fort Fillmore
Fort Fillmore

Fort Fillmore was a fortification established by Col. Edwin Vose Sumner in September of 1851 near Mesilla, New Mexico in what is now New Mexico, primarily to protect settlers and Merchant travelling to California....
 Fort Lyon
Fort Wingate

Fort Wingate is located near Gallup, New Mexico. There were two locations in New Mexico that had this name. The first one was located near San Rafael....
 (aka Fort Wingate
Fort Wingate

Fort Wingate is located near Gallup, New Mexico. There were two locations in New Mexico that had this name. The first one was located near San Rafael....
) Fort Marcy
Fort Marcy

Fort Marcy may refer to:* Fort Marcy Park, an earthwork fort completed in 1862 as a companion to Fort Ethan Allen , located in Fairfax County, Virginia and currently a public park...
 Fort McRae Fort Selden
Fort Selden

Fort Selden was a U.S. Army post, occupying the area in what is now Radium Springs, New Mexico. Established in 1865 for the purpose of protecting westward settlers from Native Americans in the United States raids, the post fell into disrepair after the American Civil War....
 Fort Stanton
Fort Stanton

Fort Stanton was a U.S. military fort built in New Mexico in the United States. It was established to protect settlements along the Rio Bonito, New Mexico in the Apache Wars....
 Fort Sumner
Fort Sumner

Fort Sumner was a Fortification in De Baca County, New Mexico in southeastern New Mexico charged with the internment of Navajo Nation and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863-1868 at nearby Bosque Redondo....
 Fort Thorn Fort Tularosa Fort Union Fort Webster Fort Wingate
Fort Wingate

Fort Wingate is located near Gallup, New Mexico. There were two locations in New Mexico that had this name. The first one was located near San Rafael....


New York

Fort Amsterdam
Fort Amsterdam

Fort Amsterdam was a fort on the southern tip of Manhattan that was the administrative headquarters for the Dutch and then British rule of New York from 1625 until being torn down in 1790 after the American Revolution....
 Castle Clinton
Castle Clinton

Castle Clinton or Fort Clinton was once a circular sandstone fort now located in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, New York City, in the United States....
 Fort Crown Point
Fort Crown Point

His Majesty's Fort of Crown Point or more simply Crown Point was a Kingdom of Great Britain fort built in 1759 on Lake Champlain to secure the region against the French....
 Fort Drum Fort Gansevoort Fort Hamilton
Fort Hamilton

Historic Fort Hamilton is located in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn surrounded by the communities of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and is one of several posts that are part of the region which is headquartered by the Military District of Washington....
 Fort Jay
Fort Jay

Fort Jay is a harbor fortification and the name of the former Army post located on Governors Island in New York Harbor. Fort Jay is the oldest defensive structure on the island built to defend Upper New York Bay, but has served other purposes....
 Fort Lafayette
Fort Lafayette

Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in New York Harbor, built next to Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in the New York City borough of Brooklyn....
 Fort Lévis
Fort Lévis

Fort L?vis, a fortification on the St. Lawrence River, was built in 1759 by the French. They had decided that Fort de La Pr?sentation was insufficient to defend the St....
 Forts of New Netherland Fort Niagara
Fort Niagara

Fort Niagara is a fortification originally built to protect the interests of New France in North America. It is located near Youngstown, New York, on the eastern bank of the Niagara River at its mouth, on Lake Ontario....
 Fort Oswego
Fort Oswego

Fort Oswego was an important frontier post for Kingdom of Great Britain traders in the 18th century. A trading post was established in 1722 with a log palisade, and List of Colonial Governors of New York William Burnet ordered a fort built at the site in 1727....
 Fort de La Présentation
Fort de La Présentation

In 1749, a Suplician priest, Fran?ois Picquet, built a mission fort named Fort de La Pr?sentation near the junction of the Oswegatchie River and the St Lawrence River....
 Fort Schuyler Fort Stanwix
Fort Stanwix

Fort Stanwix was a colonial fort whose construction was started on August 26, 1758, by British General John Stanwix, at the location of present-day Rome, New York, but was not completed until about 1762....
 Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga

Fort Ticonderoga is a large eighteenth-century fort built at a narrows at the south end of Lake Champlain where a short traverse gives access to the north end of Lake George in the state of New York....
 Fort Totten (New York) Fort Wadsworth
Fort Wadsworth

File:Fort Wadsworth 02.jpgFort Wadsworth is a former Military of the United States installation on Staten Island, New York, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay halves, a natural point for defense of the Upper Bay and Manhattan beyond....
 Fort Washington
Fort Washington

Fort Washington may refer to:In the United States:* Fort Washington , former American Revolutionary War-era fort in Manhattan, New York City...
 Fort William Henry
Fort William Henry

Fort William Henry was a United Kingdom fort on the shores of Lake George , New York. It was built during the French and Indian War by Sir William Johnson as a staging ground for attacks against the France Fort Ticonderoga ....
 Fort Wood
Fort Wood

Fort Wood was a star-shaped fortification on Bedloe's Island . Its walls were used as the distinctive base for the Statue of Liberty....


North Carolina

Fort Bragg
Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Fort Bragg is a major United States Army installation, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and Hoke County, North Carolina Counties, North Carolina, United States, near Fayetteville, North Carolina....
 Fort Branch Fort Caswell Fort Fisher
Fort Fisher

Fort Fisher was a Confederate States of America fort during the American Civil War. It protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina, from 1861 until its capture by the Union in 1865....
 Fort Macon

North Dakota

Fort Abercrombie
Fort Abercrombie

Fort Abercrombie, in North Dakota, was an American fort established by authority of an act of Congress, March 3rd, 1857. The act allocated twenty-five square miles of land on the Red River of the North in Dakota Territory to be used for a military outpost, but the exact location was left to the discretion of Lieutenant Colonel John J....
 Fort Abraham Lincoln
Fort Abraham Lincoln

Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park is located seven miles south of Mandan, North Dakota. The park is home to On-A-Slant Indian Village, the blockhouses and the Custer house....
 Fort Buford
Fort Buford

Fort Buford was a former United States Army base located at the confluence of the Missouri River and Yellowstone Rivers in the state of North Dakota....
 Fort Clark Fort Mandan
Fort Mandan

File:001 Fort Mandan Interior.jpg Fort Mandan was the name of the encampment at which the Lewis and Clark Expedition wintered in 1804-1805. The encampment was located on the Missouri River approximately twelve miles from Washburn, North Dakota, though the precise location is not known for certain and may be under the nearby river....
 Fort Ransom Fort Seward Fort Stevenson Fort Totten
Fort Totten State Historic Site

Fort Totten State Historic Site is a historic site in Fort Totten, North Dakota....
 Fort Union

Ohio

Fort Meigs
Fort Meigs

Fort Meigs was a fortification along the Maumee River in Ohio during the War of 1812....
 Fort Miami
Fort Miami (Ohio)

Fort Miami was a fort built on the Maumee River at the eastern edge of the present-day city of Maumee, Ohio, and southwest of the present-day city of Toledo, Ohio....
 Fort Recovery
Fort Recovery

Fort Recovery was a United States Army fort begun in late 1793 and completed in March 1794 under orders by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. It is located in the present-day village of Fort Recovery, Ohio, on the Wabash River within two miles of the boundary with Indiana....
 Fort Steuben

Oklahoma

Fort Sill
Fort Sill

Fort Sill is a United States Army post near Lawton, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, about 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.Today, Fort Sill remains the only active Army installation of all the forts on the South Plains built during the Indian Wars....


Oregon

Fort Astoria
Fort Astoria

Fort Astoria was the Pacific Fur Company's primary fur trading post in the Northwest, and was the first United States settlement on the Pacific coast....
 Fort Clatsop
Fort Clatsop

Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805-1806....
 Fort Dalles
Fort Dalles

Fort Dalles was a United States Army outpost located on the Columbia River at the present site of The Dalles, Oregon, in the United States. Built when Oregon was a territory, the post was used mainly for dealing with wars with Native Americans in the United States....
 Fort Hoskins
Fort Hoskins

Fort Hoskins was one of three "forts" built by the U.S. Army to monitor the Coastal Indian Reservation in Oregon in the mid 19th century....
 Fort Klamath Fort Stevens
Fort Stevens (Oregon)

Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for slain Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor, Isaac Stevens....
 Fort William
Fort William (Oregon)

Fort William was a fur trading outpost built by American Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth in 1834. It was located on the Columbia River on Sauvie Island in what is now part of Portland, Oregon....
 Fort Yamhill
Fort Yamhill

Fort Yamhill was an United States military fortification in what became the state of Oregon. Built in 1856 in the Oregon Territory, it remained an active post until 1866....


Pennsylvania

Fort Augusta Fort Bedford
Fort Bedford

Fort Bedford was a French and Indian War era British Army fortification located near the present site of Bedford, Pennsylvania. The fort was a star shaped log fortress erected in the summer of 1758....
 Fort Dewart Fort Duquesne
Fort Duquesne

Fort Duquesne was a fort French colonization of the Americas in 1754, at the junction of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania....
 Fort Granville Fort Halifax
Fort Halifax (Pennsylvania)

Fort Halifax, was located along the Susquehanna River near the present day borough of Halifax, Pennsylvania. It was a temporary stronghold in northern Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from 1756 to 1757, during the time of the French and Indian War....
 (Pennsylvania) Fort Hunter Fort Jones (Mount Oliver)
Fort Jones (Mount Oliver)

Fort Jones, with its companion, Fort Laughlin were American Civil War redoubts, built by the employees of Jones and Laughlin Steel in June and July of 1863 for the defense of Pittsburgh from a suspected invasion by Confederate troops....
 Fort Laughlin
Fort Laughlin

Fort Laughlin was an American Civil War redoubt, built in 1863 for the defense of Pittsburgh by the employees of Jones and Laughlin Steel, and named for James H....
 Fort Le Boeuf
Fort Le Boeuf

Fort Le Boeuf was a fort established by the French colonization of the Americas in 1753 on a fork of French Creek , near present-day Waterford, Pennsylvania, in northwest Pennsylvania....
 Fort Ligonier
Fort Ligonier

Fort Ligonier is a British fortification from the French and Indian War located in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. The fort served as a staging area for the Forbes Expedition of 1758....
 Fort Machault
Fort Machault

Fort Machault was a fort built by the French colonization of the Americas in 1754 near the confluence of French Creek with the Allegheny River, at present-day Franklin, Pennsylvania, in northwest Pennsylvania....
 Fort McIntosh
Fort McIntosh (Pennsylvania)

Fort McIntosh was a American Revolution era Patriot log frontier fort situated at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Beaver River in what is now Beaver, Pennsylvania....
 Fort Mifflin
Fort Mifflin

Fort Mifflin, originally called Fort Island Battery, and also known as Mud Island Fort, was commissioned in 1771 and sits on Mud or Deep Water Island on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
 Fort Necessity Fort Pitt
Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania)

Fort Pitt was a fort in what is now the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The fort was built in 1758 during the French and Indian War, next to the site of Fort Duquesne....
 Fort Presque Isle
Fort Presque Isle

Fort Presque Isle was a fort built by French soldiers in 1753 along Presque Isle Bay at present-day Erie, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. The fort was part of a line that included Fort Le Boeuf, Fort Machault, and Fort Duquesne....
 Fort Robert Smalls
Fort Robert Smalls

Fort Robert Smalls was a American Civil War redoubt built by free Blacks for the defense of Pittsburgh in 1863. It stood at the top of McGuire's Hill at the mouth of Becks Run in Arlington Heights ....
 Fort Roberdeau Fort Venango
Fort Venango

Fort Venango was a small Kingdom of Great Britain fort built in 1760 near the site of present Franklin, Pennsylvania. The fort replaced Fort Machault, a France fort burned by the French in 1759 after they left the area near the end of the French and Indian War....


Rhode Island

Fort Adams
Fort Adams

Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island, was established on July 4, 1799 as a First System coastal fortification. Its first commander was Captain John Henry who was later instrumental in starting the War of 1812....


South Carolina

Fort Charlotte
Fort Charlotte (South Carolina)

Fort Charlotte was a colonial era fort located in McCormick County, South Carolina, near present day Mount Carmel, South Carolina.Fort Charlotte was built on the Savannah River from 1765 to 1767 to protect European settlements near Long Canes on the South Carolina frontier from raids by Creek ....
 Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter is a Seacoast Defense #Third system masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston, South Carolina harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter....
 Fort Jackson Fort Wagner
Fort Wagner

Fort Wagner was a fortification on Morris Island, South Carolina, that covered the southern approach to Charleston, South Carolina harbor. It was the site of two American Civil War battles in the campaign known as Operations Against the Defenses of Charleston in 1863....


South Dakota

Fort Randall
Fort Randall, South Dakota

The Fort Randall Military Post was established in 1856 to help keep peace on the frontier. It was located on the south side of the Missouri River in South Dakota just below the present site of the Fort Randall Dam....
 Fort Sully

Tennessee


Texas


The Alamo Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss

Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas. With an area of approximately , it is the second largest such installation in the Army behind the adjacent White Sands Missile Range, and the largest TRADOC installation....
 Fort Brown
Fort Brown

Fort Brown was a military post of the United States Army in Texas during the later half of 19th century and the early part of the 20th century....
 Fort Concho
Fort Concho

Fort Concho is a National Historic Landmark owned and operated since 1935 by the city of San Angelo, Texas, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas in West Texas....
 Fort Crockett
Fort Crockett

Fort Crockett is a government reservation originally built as a defense installation on Galveston Island overlookingthe Gulf of Mexico. The fort was originally built to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay,...
 Fort D. A. Russell
Fort D. A. Russell (Texas)

Fort D. A. Russell is the name of an American military installation near Marfa, Texas that was active from 1911 to 1946.Established in 1911 as Camp Albert, it was a base for cavalry and air reconnaissance units sent to protect West Texas from Mexican bandits after the Pancho Villa raid....
 Fort Davis
Fort Davis National Historic Site

Fort Davis National Historic Site is a United States National Historical Park located in unincorporated area Jeff Davis County, Texas, Texas. Located within the Davis Mountains of West Texas, the historic site was established in 1961 in order to protect one of the best remaining examples of a United States Army fort in the southwestern United...
 Fort Hood Fort Saint Louis (Texas) Fort Worth

Utah

Fort Douglas
Fort Douglas, Utah

Camp Douglas was established in 1862 as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, for the purpose of protecting the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route....
 Fort Duchesne

Vermont


Virginia

Fort Albany
Fort Albany (Arlington, Virginia)

Fort Albany was a bastioned earthwork built by the Union Army in Arlington County in Virginia. It was built in 1861 as part of the defense of Washington, D.C....
 Fort Ethan Allen
Fort Ethan Allen (Arlington, Virginia)

Fort Ethan Allen was an earthwork fortification built on the property of Gilbert Vanderwerken in Alexandria County, Virginia, by the Union Army in 1861 as part of the defense of Washington, D.C....
 Fort Hunt Fort Loudoun Fort Monroe
Fort Monroe

Fort Monroe is a Hampton, Virginia, military installation located at Old Point Comfort, which is on the tip of the Virginia Peninsula. Along with Fort Calhoun, later renamed Fort Wool, it guarded approach by sea of the navigational shipping channel between the Chesapeake Bay and the entrance to the harbor of Hampton Roads, which itself is fo...
 Fort Richardson
Fort Richardson (Arlington, Virginia)

Now marked only by an historic marker on South 18th Street off of Glebe Road, Fort Richardson was a detached redoubt constructed by the Union Army in September 1861 as part of the defense of Washington, D.C....
 Fort Scott
Fort Scott (Arlington, Virginia)

Named for General Winfield Scott, who was then General-in-Chief of the Union Army, Fort Scott was a detached lunette constructed in May 1861 to guard the south flank of the defenses of Washington, D.C....
 Fort Ward
Fort Ward (Virginia)

Fort Ward is a former Union Army military base now located in the city of Alexandria, Virginia in the U.S. state of Virginia. It was the fifth largest fort built to defend Washington, D.C....
 Fort Wool
Fort Wool

Fort Wool was the companion to Fort Monroe in protecting Hampton Roads from seafaring threats. This site was once the dumping place for Sailing ballast....
 Fort Lee
Fort Lee

Fort Lee may refer to:* Fort Lee , a former fort in Massachusetts* Fort Lee, New Jersey* Fort Lee, Virginia* SS Fort Lee, a World War II tanker ship named after both of the above towns...
 (Petersburgh) Fort Picket Fort A.P. Hill
Fort A.P. Hill

Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, is an active duty fort of the United States Army, located near the town of Bowling Green, Virginia.Named for Confederate States of America Lieutenant General A....


Virgin Islands (U.S.)

Fort Christian
Fort Christian

Fort Christian is a Denmark-built fort in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. It was constructed by the Danish government in the 1600s who occupied the small Caribbean island....


Washington

Fort Columbia Fort Colville
Fort Colville

The trade center Fort Colville was built by the Hudson's Bay Company at Kettle Falls on the Columbia River, a few miles west of the present site of Colville, Washington in 1825, to replace Spokane House as a regional trading centre, as the latter was deemed to be too far from the Columbia River....
 Fort Dent
Fort Dent

HistoryFort Dent, in Tukwila, Washington, was a blockhouse built on the orders of Territorial Governor, Isaac Stevens, in approximately 1860....
 Fort George Wright
Fort George Wright

Fort George Wright is a land area located in Spokane, Washington. It is named after General George Wright , who had been stationed in the area....
 Fort Lawton
Fort Lawton

Fort Lawton is a United States Army fort located in the Magnolia, Seattle, Washington neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, Washington. The fort was included in the Base Realignment and Closure, 2005....
 Fort Lewis
Fort Lewis

Fort Lewis is a census-designated place and United States Army post in Pierce County, Washington, Washington, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census, the base had a total population of 19,089....
 Fort Nez Percés
Fort Nez Percés

Fort Nez Perc?s, sometimes also spelled Fort Nez Perc? and later known as Fort Walla Walla was a fortified fur trade post on the Columbia River on the territory of modern-day Wallula, Washington....
 Fort Nisqually
Fort Nisqually

Fort Nisqually was an important fur trade and farming post of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Puget Sound area of what is now Washington but in its heyday was part of the HBC's Columbia Department....
 Fort Okanogan
Fort Okanogan

Fort Okanogan was founded as a fur trade outpost by John Jacob Astor?s Pacific Fur Company in 1811. It was built at the confluence of the Okanogan River and Columbia Rivers, in what is now Okanogan County, Washington, Washington....
 Fort Simcoe
Fort Simcoe

Fort Simcoe was a United States Army fort erected in south-central Washington Territory to house troops sent to keep watch over local Native Americans in the United States tribes....
 Fort Spokane Fort Townsend Fort Vancouver
Fort Vancouver

Fort Vancouver was a 19th century fur trade outpost along the Columbia River that served as the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company in the company's Columbia District ....
 Fort Walla Walla
Fort Walla Walla

Fort Walla Walla is a fort located in Walla Walla, Washington. It was established in 1858. Today, the complex contains a park, a museum, and a hospital....
 Fort Ward
Fort Ward (Washington)

Fort Ward is a former United States Army coastal artillery fort, and later, a United States Navy military base located on the southwest side of Bainbridge Island, Washington, along Rich Passage....
 Fort Worden
Fort Worden

Fort Worden is a fort and Fort Worden State Park is a Washington State Park System that it includes it, located in Port Townsend, Washington along Admiralty Inlet in the U.S....


Washington, D.C.

Fort De Russy Fort McNair Fort Stevens
Fort Stevens (Washington, D.C.)

Fort Stevens was part of the extensive fortifications built around Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War. It was constructed in 1861 as "Fort Massachusetts" and later enlarged by the Union Army and renamed "Fort Stevens" after Brigadier General Isaac Stevens, who was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Virginia, on September 1, 1862...
 Fort Totten
Fort Totten

Fort Totten can refer to:* Fort Totten, North Dakota* Fort Totten State Historic Site, a Dakota frontier-era fort and Native American boarding school...


West Virginia

Fort Ashby
Fort Ashby

Fort Ashby is located in Fort Ashby, West Virginia.In 1755, Colonel George Washington gave orders to build a stockade and fort on the East Side of Pattersons Creek....
 Fort Milroy
White Top

White Top is a knob and spur of Cheat Mountain in southeastern Randolph County, West Virginia, West Virginia, USA. Sitting at an elevation of , it is located just west of the Shavers Fork of Cheat River and Cheat Bridge, West Virginia....
 Fort Pearsall
Fort Pearsall

File:Fort Pearsall Marker Romney WV 2005 9 16 01.JPGFort Pearsall was an early frontier fort constructed in 1756 in Romney, West Virginia, West Virginia to protect local settlers in the Potomac River#South Branch Potomac River valley against Native Americans in the United States raids....
 Prickett's Fort Fort Randolph

Wisconsin

Fort Crawford
Fort Crawford

Fort Crawford was an outpost of the United States Army located in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, during the 19th Century. The Second Fort Crawford Military Hospital was designated a U.S....
 Fort Howard Fort McCoy
Fort McCoy, Wisconsin

File:FortMcCoyUSArmy.JPGFile:National Guard CH-146 Griffon Patriot 2006 exercises.jpgFort McCoy is an active United States Army installation. It is located on 60,000 acres between Sparta, Wisconsin and Tomah, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, in Monroe County, Wisconsin....
 Fort Winnebago
Fort Winnebago

This article is about the U.S. Army fort. For the civil township of the same name, see Fort Winnebago, WisconsinFort Winnebago was a 19th century fortification of the United States Army located on a hill between the Fox River and Wisconsin Rivers in Portage, Wisconsin....


Wyoming

Fort Bridger
Fort Bridger

Fort Bridger was a 19th century fur trade outpost established in 1842 on Blacks Fork of the Green River. A small town, Fort Bridger, Wyoming, remains near the fort and takes its name from it....
 Fort Caspar
Fort Caspar

Fort Caspar was a military post of the United States Army, named after 2LT. Caspar Collins, a U.S. Army officer who was was killed in the 1865 Battle of the Platte Bridge Station against the Lakota and Cheyenne....
 Fort Fetterman
Fort Fetterman

Fort Fetterman was a wooden fort constructed in 1867 by the United States Army on the Great Plains frontier in the Dakota Territory approximately 11 miles northwest of present-day Douglas, Wyoming....
 Fort Phil Kearny
Fort Phil Kearny

Fort Phil Kearny was an outpost of the United States Army that existed in the late 1860s in present-day northeastern Wyoming along the Bozeman Trail....
 Fort Laramie Fort Reno
Fort Reno (Wyoming)

Fort Reno was a wooden fort constructed in 1865 by the United States Army on the Great Plains frontier in the Dakota Territory in present-day Johnson County, Wyoming....
 Fort D.A. Russell
Fort D.A. Russell (Wyoming)

Fort D. A. Russell, also known as Fort Francis E. Warren, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base and Fort David A. Russell, was a post and base of operations for the United States United States Army located in Cheyenne, Wyoming....
 Fort Sanders
Fort Sanders (Wyoming)

Fort Sanders was a wooden fort constructed in 1866 on the Laramie Plains in southern Wyoming, near the city of Laramie, Wyoming. Originally named Fort John Buford, it was renamed Fort Sanders after General William P....
 Fort Francis E. Warren Fort Yellowstone
Fort Yellowstone

Fort Yellowstone is a former United States Army List of U.S. Army installations that currently serves as the administrative headquarters for the Yellowstone National Park....


Cities and areas with Fort in the name

Fort Lee
Fort Lee

Fort Lee may refer to:* Fort Lee , a former fort in Massachusetts* Fort Lee, New Jersey* Fort Lee, Virginia* SS Fort Lee, a World War II tanker ship named after both of the above towns...
 Fort Rock Fort Thomas
Fort Thomas, Kentucky

Fort Thomas is a city in Campbell County, Kentucky, Kentucky, along the Ohio River. The population was 16,495 at the 2000 United States Census....
 Fort Worth Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne is a city in northeastern Indiana, United States and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana. As of July 1, 2008, the city had an estimated population of 251,247, making it the List of United States cities by population Fort Wayne is Indiana's second largest city after Indianapolis, Indiana....


Other forts

Fort Buchanan
Fort Buchanan

Fort Buchanan is the name of two United States Army forts:* Fort Buchanan, Arizona, is a former United States Army base in Arizona to control land purchased in the Gadsden Purchase....
 Fort San Juan

Vietnam


Ky Hoa Forts Nghia Lo Fort Long-Son Fort Dong-Dang Fort

See also

:Category:Forts by country List of buildings
List of buildings

This is a list of buildings and nonbuilding structures....
 List of castles
List of castles

The List of castles is a link page for any castle in the sense of a fortified building....
 List of fortifications
List of fortifications

This is a list of fortifications past and present, a fortification being a major physical defensive structure often composed of a more or less wall-connected series of forts....
 Martello tower
Martello tower

Martello towers are small defensive Fortification built in several countries of the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the Napoleonic Wars onwards....