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Fort Knox. / 37.92; -85.96. Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository (also known as Fort Knox), which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated.
Fort Knox, now Fort Knox State Park or Fort Knox State Historic Site, [1] is located on the western bank of the Penobscot River in the town of Prospect, Maine, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from the mouth of the river. Built between 1844 and 1869, it was the first fort in Maine built entirely of granite; most previous forts used wood, earth, and stone ...
Fort Eisenhower, closed to the public. Fort Frederica, open to the public. Fort Gillem. Fort Hawkins, open to the public. Fort James Jackson, open to the public. Fort King George, open to the public. Fort McAllister, open to the public. Fort McPherson. Fort Moore, closed to the public.
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The Fortification of Dorchester Heights was a decisive action early in the American Revolutionary War that precipitated the end of the siege of Boston and the withdrawal of British troops from that city. On March 4, 1776, troops from the Continental Army under George Washington 's command occupied Dorchester Heights, a series of low hills with ...
A mid-19th century artillery casemate at Fort Knox, Maine. A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired, in a fortification , warship , or armoured fighting vehicle .
Tweebosch. Hart's River. Rooiwal. Fort Klapperkop main entrance and dry-moat with the flag of the Transvaal above the battlements. The Pretoria Forts consists of four forts built by the government of the South African Republic (ZAR) just before the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War around their capital of Pretoria .
The capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold surprised and captured the fort's small British garrison. The cannons and other armaments at Fort Ticonderoga were later transported to Boston by Colonel Henry ...