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Fort Ancient, Ohio Fort Ancient is a collection of American Indian mounds and earthen walls located in Washington Township, Warren County, Ohio, along the eastern shore of the Little Miami River about seven miles southeast of Lebanon on State Route 350. The site is the largest prehistoric hilltop enclosure in the United States with three and one-half miles (18,000 feet) of walls in a 100-acre complex.
Fort Apache (film) Fort Apache is a 1948 western film starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford. The film was the first of the director's "cavalry trilogy" and was followed by She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande, both starring Wayne.
Fort Apache Studios Fort Apache Studios is a New England recording studio internationally renowned for alternative rock sessions produced there since 1986. The studio is currently located in the village of Bellows Falls, Vermont in space leased in an old hotel called The Windham, owned by the town of Rockingham, Vermont, within which Bellows Falls is located.
Fort Apache, The Bronx Fort Apache, The Bronx is a 1981 in film crime drama film directed by Daniel Petrie starring Paul Newman, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello, Rachel Ticotin, Edward Asner and Pam Grier. The film is set in the decayed South Bronx region of New York City following the day to day activities of NYPD Officers Murphy (Newman) and Corelli (Wahl) who work out of the local police station nicknamed "Fort Apache" as it has the feeling of an army outpost in a territory foreign to the officers who work there.
Fort Armstrong (1816-1836), was one of a chain of frontier defenses erected after the War of 1812. It was located at the foot of Rock Island (see Rock Island, Illinois), in the Mississippi River, five miles from the principal Sac and Fox village on Rock River in Illinois.
Fort Assiniboine Fort Assiniboine is a historic Hudson Bay Company trading post in Alberta, Canada, north-west of Edmonton, situated on the Athabasca River at Highway 33. With a current population of approximately 200 people, this hamlet was a stopping point along the Klondike Trail and gets its name from the Assiniboine people.
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.
Fort Baker Fort Baker is one of the most famous components of California's Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The Fort, which borders the City of Sausalito in Marin County and is connected to San Francisco by the Golden Gate Bridge, served as an Army post until the mid-1990s, when the headquarters of the 91st Division moved to Parks Reserve Forces Training Area.
Fort Baldwin Fort Baldwin, a coastal defense land battery near the mouth of the Kennebec River in Phippsburg, Maine, was named after Jeduthan Baldwin, an engineer for the Colonial army during the American Revolution. The fort was constructed between 1905 and 1912 and originally consisted of three batteries, all of which were removed in July 1924:
Fort Bascom 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 Battleford Fort Battleford was the sixth Northwest Mounted Police fort to be established in the Northwest Territories of Canada, and played a central role in the events of the Northwest Rebellion / Resistance of 1885. It was there that Poundmaker was arrested, and that 6 Cree and 2 Stoney were hanged for their participation in the Frog Lake massacre and other killings.
Fort Beaufort Fort Beaufort is a small town in the Amatole District of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, Fort Beaufort is named after the Duke of Beaufort, father of Lord Charles Henry Somerset, first British governor of the Cape Colony (1814 to 1826).
Fort Beauharnois Fort Beauharnois was a French fort (or fur post) built on the shores of Lake Pepin, a wide part of the upper Mississippi River, in 1727. The location chosen was on lowlands and the fort was rebuilt in 1730 on higher ground.
Fort Beauregard Fort Beauregard, located half a mile north of the village of Harrisonburg, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, was one of four Confederate forts guarding the Ouachita River during the American Civil War. In 1863, it was unsuccessfully attacked by four Union gunboats.
Fort Beauséjour Fort Beauséjour, also referred to as Fort Cumberland, is a National Historic Site located in Aulac, New Brunswick, Canada. It is approximately 8 kilometres east of the town of Sackville on a ridge overlooking the Tantramar Marshes.
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation The Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in north-central Montana, USA. It is shared, ironically, by two groups of Native Americans who have been historically enemies of each other, the Assiniboine and the Gros Ventre tribes.
Fort Belvedere, Surrey Fort Belvedere is a country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, England very near Sunningdale, Berkshire, but actually over the border in the borough of Runnymede in Surrey. It is a former royal residence - from 1750 to 1976 - and is most famous for being the home of King Edward VIII.
Fort Bend Fort Bend was a blockhouse built in a large bend of the Brazos River in what is now Fort Bend County, Texas to provide protection against Indian raids. It was erected in November 1822 by several members of Stephen F.
Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority The Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority (FBCTRA), located in Sugar Land, Texas, is currently managing the successful development and completion of two key county mobility projects, the Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road and the Fort Bend Westpark Tollway. Both toll roads offer new transportation options, relieving traffic congestion for commuters.
Fort Benjamin Hawkins Fort Benjamin Hawkins was a fort, built in 1806 by the United States government under the administration of President Thomas Jefferson. It overlooked the ancient Indian mounds of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, as well as, the future site of Macon, across the river.
Fort Benning Fort Benning is a United States Army base, located southwest of Columbus in Muscogee and Chattahoochee counties in Georgia and Russell County, Alabama It is part of the Columbus, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Fort Benning South, Georgia Fort Benning South is a census-designated place and the "build up" portion of Fort Benning military base, in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Columbus, Georgia-Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Fort Bernard Fort Bernard was a small trading post between Horse Creek and Fort Laramie on the Oregon Trail. It was noted by many overland trail emigrants before and after the California gold rush of 1849, but there is no definite information about the owner or how long it continued.
Fort Bidwell, California Located near the north end of the Surprise Valley, the community's ZIP Code is 96112 and elevation is about 4,550 feet above mean sea level (AMSL). The North American Datum of 1927 (NAD27) coordinates for the town are .
Fort Bliss Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in El Paso County, Texas, United States. The Fort is named for Lieutenant Colonel William Wallace Smith Bliss, who was a son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor and was re-interred at Fort Bliss National Cemetery on post.
Fort Boise Fort Boise refers to two different locations in southwestern Idaho. The first was a trading post near the Oregon border, and the second was a military post fifty miles to the east which became the capital city of Boise.
Fort Borstal An afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, Fort Borstal was built between 1875 and 1885 by convict labour to hold the high ground southwest of Rochester, Kent. It is of polygonal design and was never originally armed.
Fort Bourbon Fort Bourbon was one of the important northern forts that La Verendrye had built during his long tenure as commandant of the western forts. This was during the earliest exploration of the northwest and, besides trade, there was a strong desire to explore potential routes to the western sea.
Fort Bowie National Historic Site Fort Bowie National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located near Apache Pass in southeastern Arizona. The historic site was established in 1972 to commemorate the bitter conflict between the Chiricahua Apaches and the United States military and to preserve the ruins of Fort Bowie.
Fort Boyard (TV series) Fort Boyard is a French game show created by Jacques Antoine, that first aired in 1990 and is popular to this day. It has been remade across the globe, most successfully in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada and the Netherlands.
Fort Breendonk Fort Breendonk is a fortification built in 1906 as part of the second ring of defenses (the RĂ©duit national) around the city of Antwerp (Belgium). The fort was used as a prison camp by the German occupiers during World War II.
Fort Bridgewoods The site of Fort Bridgewoods is on the outskirts of Rochester, Kent next to the Rochester-Maidstone road (B2091). The site was acquired by the War Office about 1860 to form part of a ring of forts protecting the Royal Dockyard at Chatham.
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 Indians.
Fort Burgoyne Fort Burgoyne, originally known as Castle Hill Fort, was built in the 1860s to guard the high ground northeast of Dover, England. 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 War.
Fort Burt Fort Burt is a colonial fort which was erected on the southwest edge of Road Town, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands above Road Reef Marina. The site is now a hotel and restaurant of the same name, and relatively little of the original structure remains.
Fort Butler Fort Butler was an important site during the Cherokee removal known as the Trail of Tears. Located on a hill overlooking present-day Murphy, North Carolina on the Hiwassee River, Fort Butler was the headquarters of the Eastern Division of the U.
Fort Calgary Fort Calgary was established in 1875 as Fort Brisebois by the North West Mounted Police, located at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in what is now Calgary, Alberta. The construction of the fort was initiated in April 10, 1875 by a federal order to force out whiskey traders from the area.
Fort Campbell North, Kentucky Fort Campbell North is a census-designated place located in Christian County, Kentucky which contains most of the housing for the Fort Campbell Army base. As of the 2000 census, the base had a total population of 14,338.
Fort Canning Fort Canning () is a small hill in the southeast portion of the island city-state of Singapore, within the Central Area that forms Singapore's central business district. Although small in physical size, it has a long history intertwined with that of the city-state due to its location as the highest elevation within walking distance to the city's civic district within the Downtown Core.
Fort Canning Reservoir The Fort Canning Service Reservoir (Chinese: 福康宁备水池) is located on top of Fort Canning Hill in Singapore. The reservoir was constructed in 1926 on the former site of a large artillery barracks and parade ground to help supplement the large impounding reservoirs.
Fort Capon Fort Capon or Fort Enoch was a stockade fort erected in 1756 by the Virginia colonial militia located at the confluence of the North River and the Cacapon near present-day Forks of Cacapon in Hampshire County, West Virginia. The site of Fort Capon can be reached off of Gaston Road from WV 29 or WV 127 (Bloomery Pike).
Fort Capuzzo At the beginning of World War II, Fort Capuzzo was an Italian fort in Libya, Africa. Within a week of Italy's June 10, 1940 declaration of war upon the United Kingdom, the British Army's 11th Hussars (assisted by elements of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment) captured Fort Capuzzo.
Fort Carson Fort Carson is a United States Army post and a Census Designated Place located immediately south of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Fort Carson is the home of the Second and Third Brigade Combat Teams of the 4th Infantry Division, the Second Brigade Combat Team of the 2nd Infantry Division, the 10th Special Forces Group, the 71st Ordnance Group (EOD), the 43rd Area Support Group, and the First United States Army Training Support Division - West.
Fort Casey Fort Casey State Park in located on Whidbey Island in Washington state. Admiralty Inlet was considered so strategic to the defense of Puget Sound in the 1890s that three forts, Fort Casey on Whidbey Island, Fort Flagler on Marrowstone Island, and Fort Worden, were built at the entrance with huge guns creating a "Triangle of Fire" that could theoretically thwart any invasion attempt by sea.
Fort Caspar Fort Caspar was a military post of the United States Army located in present-day Casper, Wyoming (which is named for the fort). Founded in the 1859 as a trading post along the Oregon Trail, it was located on the North Platte River.
Fort Cass Fort Cass, established in 1835, was an important site during the Cherokee removal known as the Trail of Tears. Located on the Hiwassee River near present-day Charleston, Tennessee, it housed a garrison of United States troops and watched over the largest concentration of internment camps where Cherokee were kept during the summer of 1838 before starting the main trek west to Indian Territory.
Fort Cataraqui The Fort Cataraqui was a North Sands class merchant vessel. North Sands, along with similar Fort and Canadian Liberty classes were essentially British and Canadian variants of the American Liberty and Victory classes.
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. Located along the Lewis and Clark River at the north end of the Clatsop Plains approximately 5 mi (8 km) southwest of Astoria, Oregon, the fort was the last encampment of the Corps of Discovery before embarking on their return trip east to St.
Fort Clinch State Park The Fort Clinch State Park is a Florida State Park, located on a peninsula near the northernmost point of Amelia Island, along the Amelia River. Its 1,100 acres include the 19th century Fort Clinch, sand dunes, plains, maritime hammock and estuarine tidal marsh.
Fort Collins Agricultural Colony The Fort Collins Agricultural Colony was a 19th century enterprise in Larimer County, Colorado to promote new agricultural and commercial settlement in and around the town of Fort Collins. Founded in the autumn of 1872 as an outgrowth of the Union Colony in nearby Greeley, the colony was instrumental in the early growth of Fort Collins, as well as in making it an agricultural center in the Colorado Territory at a time when the region was still known primarily for its mineral resources.
Fort Collins High School Fort Collins High School, located at 3400 Lambkin Way, Fort Collins, Colorado, is one of four public senior high schools in the Poudre School District. Its school colors are purple and gold and after deliberation for many of the beginning years, the mascot has been (and always will be) a lambkin.
Fort Collins Municipal Railway The Fort Collins Municipal Railway that operated in Fort Collins, Colorado held several distinctions - Fort Collins was the smallest city in the United States to operate streetcars, and was the last city in Colorado to operate streetcars (streetcar service ended in Pueblo in 1948 and the Denver Tramway terminated streetcar service in 1950). By the end of service, the railway was also the last to be using Birney streetcars, and had the lowest fares (5 cents) of any public transport system in the nation.
Fort Collins Public Library The Fort Collins Public Library is the public library of the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, USA and an administrative department of the city government. The library as an institution dates from the late 19th century when a collection was housed on South College Avenue in downtown.
Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area The Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Census Bureau defined Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) located in the Fort Collins and Loveland region of the State of Colorado. The Fort Collins-Loveland MSA is defined as Larimer County, Colorado.
Fort Collins, Colorado The City of Fort Collins, a home rule municipality situated on the Cache la Poudre River, is the most populous city and the county seat of Larimer County, Colorado. It is a large college town (home to Colorado State University) in the north central region of the state, along what is known as the Colorado Front Range.
Fort Colville The trade center Fort Colville (also "Colvile") 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. It was named for Andrew Colville, a London governor of Hudson's Bay Company.
Fort Conde Fort Conde, located in Mobile, Alabama, at 150 South Royal Street, is a reconstruction, at 4/5 scale, of part of the original French Fort Condé at the site, also known as Fort Carlota (under Spanish rule) and Fort Charlotte (under British rule).
Fort Confidence, Northwest Territories Fort Confidence, located on the eastern tip of the Dease Arm of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, was an 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. The structure was a log building, and burned down a short time later.
Fort Crawford Fort Crawford was an outpost of the United States Army located in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin during the 19th Century. The army's occupation of Prairie du Chien actually spanned the lifetime of two fortifications, both of them named Fort Crawford.
Fort Crown Point His Majesty's Fort of Crown Point or more simply Fort Crown Point was a British fort built in 1759 on Lake Champlain (on the border between modern New York State and Vermont in the United States) to secure the region against the French. The fort is located near the town of Crown Point, New York.
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. It was sited to protect the Royal Navy Dockyard, by preventing enemy forces from landing in Langstone Harbour and attacking from the landward side.
Fort Cumberland (Maryland) Fort Cumberland was constructed by troops of General Braddock at the confluence of Wills Creek and the Potomac River, at the current location of the City of Cumberland, Maryland. The wood palisade fort is now gone, but occupying the site is the existing Emmanual Episcopal Church (Cumberland).
Fort de Chartres Fort de Chartres was a French 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 in North America.
Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène The Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène, an historic site in Parc Jean-Drapeau that belongs to the city of Montreal, Quebec, was constructed in the early 1820s as an arsenal in the defensive chain of forts built to protect Canada from a threat of American invasion. Although not heavily fortified, it served an important purpose as the central artillery depot for all forts west.
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 forks of the two Saskatchewans, a new establishment which originally bore the name of Fort des Prairies.
Fort de La Présentation In 1749, a Suplican priest, Abbé Picquet, built a mission fort named Fort de La Présentation near the junction of the Oswegatchie River and the St Lawrence River. By 1755 it had a large population of Iroqois loyal to France.
Fort de Salses The Fort de Salses (also called Forteresse de Salses) is a northern Catalan fortress in the commune of Salses-le-Château, situated in the French département of Pyrénées-Orientales. It is clearly visible from the A9 autoroute and it is possible to visit from the motorway rest area.
Fort Dallas Fort Dallas was established on the plantation of William English in 1836 as an United States military post and cantonment in southern Florida during the Seminole Wars. It was named in honor of Commodore Alexander James Dallas, U.
Fort Darling Fort Darling was a Confederate military installation during the American Civil War located at Drewry’s Bluff, a high point overlooking a bend in the James River south of Richmond in Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was the site of the 1862 Battle of Drewry's Bluff.
Fort Dauphin (Canada) Fort Dauphin, was built in 1741 near Winnipegosis, Manitoba with Pierre Gaultier de La VĂ©rendrye in charge of construction. The area, reached from Fort La Reine, would provide a post located between the Assiniboine River and the Saskatchewan River.
Fort Davis National Historic Site Fort Davis National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in the Davis Mountains of western 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 States.
Fort Dayton Fort Dayton is located North side of Mohawk River at West Canada Creek in what is now Herkimer, New York. It was built under the supervision of American Revolutionary War Colonel Elias Dayton on the orders of General Philip Schuyler in the autumn of 1776.
Fort Dearborn massacre The Fort Dearborn massacre occurred on August 15, 1812, near Fort Dearborn, Michigan Territory (in what is now Chicago, Illinois) during the War of 1812. The massacre followed the evacuation of the fort as ordered by the U.
Fort Decatur Fort Decatur was a United States Army blockhouse erected on the ocean front of the far-western Rockaway Peninsula during the War of 1812. Its purpose was to protect New York Harbor from invaders, particularly British.
Fort Defiance (Illinois) Fort Defiance, known as Camp Defiance during the American Civil War, is a former military fortification located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers near Cairo in Alexander County, Illinois. The strategic significance of the site has been known since prehistoric times with archaeological evidence of warfare dating to the Mississippian era.
Fort Defiance (Ohio) Fort Defiance was ordered built by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne in August 1794 at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers. It was the last of a line of forts built by American forces leading up to the Northwest Indian War's Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794.
Fort DeRussy Fort DeRussy is a United States military reservation in the Waikiki area of Honolulu, Hawaii under the jurisdiction of the United States Army. Unfenced and largely open to public traffic, the installation consists mainly of landscaped greenspace.
Fort Detrick Fort Detrick—formerly Camp Detrick—is a United States Army medical installation located in Frederick, Maryland. It is home to the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the U.
Fort DeWolf Fort DeWolf was an American Civil War fort located just south of Shepherdsville, Kentucky. It was placed so that the L&N railroad would bisect the fort, to better protect the vital railroad bridge over the Salt River.
Fort Dix, New Jersey Fort Dix is a United States Army installation located in parts of New Hanover Township, Pemberton Township, and Springfield Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey. It is also a census-designated place, and as of the United States 2000 Census, the installation population was 7,464.
Fort Donelson National Battlefield Fort Donelson National Battlefield preserves Fort Donelson and Fort Heiman, two sites of the American Civil War Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, in which Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Admiral Andrew Hull Foote captured three forts, opened two rivers, and received national recognition for victories in February 1862, the first major Union victories of the war.
Fort Douglas (Canada) Fort Douglas was a fort of the Hudson Bay Company that was built by Scottish and Irish settlers in 1812 in what is today Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was in the immediate vicinity of the North West Company establishment, Fort Gibraltar.
Fort Dummer Fort Dummer was a British fort built in 1724 by the colonial militia of the Province of Massachusetts Bay under the command of Lieutenant Timothy Dwight in what is now the Town of Brattleboro in southeastern Vermont. The fort was the first permanent European settlement in Vermont.
Fort Dundas Fort Dundas was a short lived British settlement on Melville Island between 1824 and 1828 in what is now the Northern Territory of Australia. The establishment of the settlement caused the border of New South Wales to be moved west from the 135th meridian to the 129th meridian.
Fort Dunlop Fort Dunlop (), is the common name of the original tyre warehouse and head office of Dunlop Tyres in Birmingham, England. It was established in 1917 and by 1954, the entire factory area employed 10,000 workers.
Fort Edmonton Fort Edmonton (originally named Edmonton House) was established in 1795 as a trading post on the North Saskatchewan River for the Hudson's Bay Company. It was located near Fort Augustus, a post of the rival North West Company, on the north side of the river from present-day Fort Saskatchewan.
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 Erie Fort Erie was the first British fort to be constructed as part of a network developed after the Seven Years' War (or in the United States the French and Indian War) was concluded by the Treaty of Paris (1763) at which time all of New France had been ceded to Great Britain. It is located on the southern edge of the Town of Fort Erie directly across the Niagara River from Buffalo, New York.
Fort Espérance In 1787, Fort Espérance was constructed on the south side of the Qu'Appelle River near the present day Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. It was built by the Northwest Company and was one of the important pemmican forts for the Assiniboine River district.
Fort Ethan Allen (Arlington, Virginia) Fort Ethan Allen was an earthwork fortification built on the property of Gilbert Vanderwerken in Alexandria County, Virginia, (now Arlington, Virginia) by the Union Army in 1861 as part of the defense of Washington during the American Civil War. The remains of the fort, a portion of the earthen walls, now overgrown, are now part of Fort Ethan Allen Park.
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. It was located high on the bluffs on the south side of the North Platte River, and served as a major jumping-off point for the start of several major military expeditions against warring Native American tribes.
Fort Fillmore Fort Fillmore was a fortification established by the United States in September of 1851 near Mesilla in what is now New Mexico, primarily to protect settlers and traders travelling to California. Travellers in the Westward Migration were under constant threat from Indian attack, and a network of forts was created by the US Government to protect and encourage westward expansion.
Fort Flagler State Park Fort Flagler State Park is a Washington state park on the site of Fort Flagler, a former United States Army fort at the northern end of Marrowstone Island. From Fort Flagler, visitors can see Port Townsend to the northwest, the cranes at the Navy base on Indian Island to the west, and Whidbey Island eastward across Admiralty Inlet.
Fort Forman Fort Forman (also spelled Furman or Foreman) was a stockade fort erected by Captain William Forman at the beginning of the French and Indian War situated three miles north of Romney on the South Branch Potomac River near Vance on West Virginia Route 28. Fort Furman was in use from its construction in 1755 until 1764.
Fort Fraser, British Columbia Fort Fraser is a community of about 1000 people, situated near the base of Mount Fraser, close to both Fraser Lake and the Nechako River. It can be found near the geographical centre of British Columbia, Canada, 44 km west of Vanderhoof on The Yellowhead Highway.
Fort Frederica National Monument Fort Frederica National Monument, on St. Simons Island, Georgia, preserves the archaeological remnants of a fort and town built by James Oglethorpe between 1736 and 1748 to protect the southern boundary of the British colony of Georgia from Spanish raids.
Fort Frederick (Vermont) Fort Frederick was a formidable blockhouse that was built at the Winooski (then “Onion”) River in 1773 by Ira Allen, one of the first English occupants to settle in the locality. Allen also established a shipyard nearby at the Winooski River bridge in 1772.
Fort Frederick State Park Fort Frederick State Park is a Maryland state park surrounding the restored Fort Frederick, a fort from the French and Indian War. The park is south of the town of Big Pool on the Potomac River; the C and O canal runs through the park grounds.
Fort Garry Fort Garry also known as Upper Fort Garry was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1822 on or near the site of the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar.
Fort Garry Horse Museum & Archives Inc. Fort Garry Horse Museum & Archives Inc. is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that displays the history of the Fort Garry Horse Regiment from its origin to the present time through use of artifacts, photographs and archival material.

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