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 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...

, 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 defence system for Sydney Harbour and recalls a period when the colony of New South Wales became increasingly aware of its isolation and wealth...
  
  
• Beehive Casemate
  Beehive Casemate
  The Beehive Casemate is an historical fortification located on the banks of Obelisk Bay, in Sydney Harbour. Construction began in 1871 and was completed in 1874. The fort was constructed under the supervision of colonial architect James Barnet...
  
  
• Middle Head Fortifications
  Middle Head Fortifications
  The Middle Head Fortification is located at the end of Old Fort Road, Middle Head, Mosman, New South Wales. The fortifications at Middle Head formed part of Sydney Harbour's defences.-History:The fortifications were built between 1870 and 1911....
  
  
• 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 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 harbour...
  
  
• Fort Kirribilli
  Admiralty House, Sydney
  Admiralty House is the official Sydney residence of the Governor-General of Australia. It is located in the suburb of Kirribilli, on the northern foreshore of Sydney Harbour . This large, Italianate, sandstone mansion occupies the tip of Kirribilli Point...
  
  
• 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.-History:...
  
  
• Steel Point Battery

Other fortifications

• Ben Buckler Gun Battery
• Bare Island Fort
• Breakwater Battery
  Breakwater Battery
  Breakwater 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
  Drummond Battery was a counter bombardment battery at Port Kembla, Australia during World War II.Constructed in 1942 to provide protection for Port Kembla from enemy shipping and submarines. Two BL 9.2 inch Mk X gun emplacements with related underground facilities were constructed near Drummond,...
  
  
• 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, that incorporates a functional 19th century fort. The fort was built after more than 40 years of indecision over the defence of South Australia...
  
  
• Fort Lytton
  Fort Lytton National Park
  Fort Lytton is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 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, Australia. It was part of a network of fortifications, commanded from Fort Queenscliff, protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip.-Fortifications:...
  
  
• Fort Philip
  Fort Philip (Sydney)
  Fort Philip was a citadel style fort constructed as part of the first defensive works of the penal settlement of Sydney, Australia.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Nepean
  Fort Nepean
  Fort Nepean is a former defensive facility occupying part of Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia. It was part of a network of fortifications, commanded from Fort Queenscliff, protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip.- Background :...
  
  
• 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. The Fort, which underwent major redevelopment in the late 1870s and 1880s, became the headquarters for an extensive chain of forts around Port...
  
  
• Fort Scratchley
  Fort Scratchley
  Fort Scratchley is a former coastal defence installation and now museum, located in Newcastle East, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1882 to defend the city against a possible Russian attack. However, its guns were not fired in anger until 8 June 1942, during the...
  
  
• 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.-History:...
  
  
• 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, Australia. The battery is also known as Boora Point Battery....
  
  
• Smiths Hill Fort
  Smiths Hill Fort
  Smiths Hill Fort was a fort at North Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. The fort was also known as Wollongong Fort.-History:Built between 1891-1893 to provide a deterrent to a possible Russian attack upon Wollongong Harbour....
  
  
• Swan Island Fort
• Fort Wallace
• Henry Head Fort
  Henry Head Battery
  The Henry Head Battery is an artillery battery located on the northern side of the entrance to Botany Bay at Henry Head, La Perouse, New South Wales, Australia.-History:...
  
  
• 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. It was part of a network of fortifications protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip....
  
  
• Signal Hill Battery
  Signal Hill Battery
  The Signal Hill Battery was constructed in 1892-3 at Watsons Bay and is adjacent to the Signal Hill Lighthouse on Old South Head Road.-History and description:...
  
  

Antwerp (Province of -)

Antwerp (province)

Antwerp is the northernmost province 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. Its capital is Antwerp which comprises the Port of Antwerp...

Antwerp (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...

 River, toponymy as per maps)

• Stabroeck
  Stabroek
  Stabroek is a municipality located in the Belgian 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. The total area is 21.51 km² which gives a population density of 818 inhabitants per km². In...
  
   (Fort de -)
• Berendrecht (Redoute de -)
• Smoutakker (Redoute de -)
• Ertbrand (Fort de -)
• Capellen (Redoute de -)
• Brasschaet
  Brasschaat
  Brasschaat is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Brasschaat proper. In November 2006, Brasschaat won the LivCom-Award 2006 for the most liveable municipality in the world....
  
   (Fort de -)
• Drijhoek (Redoute de -)
• Schooten
  Schoten
  Schoten is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Schoten proper. On January 1, 2006 Schoten had a total population of 33,160. The total area is which gives a population density of 1,122 inhabitants per km². Schoten abuts the...
  
   (Fort de -)
• Audaen (Redoute de -)
• 's Gravenwezel (Fort de -)
• Schilde
  Schilde
  Schilde is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Schilde proper and 's Gravenwezel. On January 1, 2006 Schilde had a total population of 19,575. The total area is 35.99 km² which gives a population density of 544 inhabitants per km². It...
  
   (Redoute de -)
• Oeleghem (Fort de -)
• Massenhoven (Redoute de -)
• Broechem (Fort de -)
• Kessel (Fort de -)
• Lier
  Lier, Belgium
  Lier is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the city of Lier proper and the village of Koningshooikt. On January 1, 2010 Lier had a total population of 33,930. The total area is 49.70 km² which gives a population density of 669 inhabitants per...
  
  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 Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver and Sint-Katelijne-Waver proper. On January 1, 2006 Sint-Katelijne-Waver had a total population of 19,577...
  
   (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 defences around the city of Antwerp . Originally one in a chain of fortresses constructed to defend Belgium against a German attack, Breendonk was near the town of the same name, about 12 miles southwest of Antwerp...
  
  
• Letterheid (Redoute de -)
• Liezele (Fort de -)
• Puers
  Puurs
  Puurs is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. It is located in the Flemish Region. The municipality comprises the towns of Breendonk, Liezele, Kalfort, Ruisbroek and Puurs proper. On January 1, 2006 Puurs had a total population of 16,029...
  
   (Redoute de -)
• Bornhem
  Bornem
  Bornem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Bornem proper, Hingene, Wintam, Mariekerke and Weert. On January 1, 2006 Bornem had a total population of 20,064...
  
   (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 province of Antwerp, in Belgium. As well as Zwijndrecht proper, the municipality includes the villages of Burcht. As of January 1, 2006, Zwijndrecht had a total population of 18,231....
  
   (Fort de -)
• Sainte Marie (Fort -)
• La Perle (Fort -)

Antwerp

• Noord Kasteel

Liège (Province of -)

Liège (province)

Liège is the easternmost province of Belgium and belongs to the Walloon Region. It is an area of French and German ethnicity. It borders on the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and in Belgium the provinces of Luxembourg, Namur, Walloon Brabant , and those of Flemish Brabant and Limburg . Its...

Liège (1914, clockwise from N, right bank of Meuse

Meuse

Meuse is a department in northeast France, named after the River Meuse.-History:Meuse is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...

 River)

• Barchon (Fort de -)
• Évegnée (Fort de -)
• Fléron
  Fléron
  Fléron is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. On January 1, 2006 Fléron had a total population of 16,088. The total area is which gives a population density of 1,172 inhabitants per km²....
  
   (Fort de -)
• Chaudfontaine
  Chaudfontaine
  Chaudfontaine is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. On January 1, 2006 Chaudfontaine had a total population of 21,012. The total area is 25.52 km² which gives a population density of 823 inhabitants per km²....
  
   (Fort de -)
• Embourg (Fort de -)
• Boncelles (Fort de -)
• Flémalle
  Flémalle
  Flémalle is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Liége. On January 1, 2006 Flémalle had a total population of 25,140. The total area is 36.68 km² which gives a population density of 685 inhabitants per km².-Subdivisions:...
  
   (Fort de -)
• Hollogne (Fort de -)
• Loncin (Fort de -)
  Fort de Loncin
  The Fort de Loncin is one of twelve forts built as part of the Fortifications of Liège in the late 19th century in Belgium. It was constructed between 1881 and 1884 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont...
  
  
• 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 Walloon municipality of Belgium in Province of Liege. On January 1, 2006 Pepinster had a total population of 9,560. The total area is 24.79 km² which gives a population density of 386 inhabitants per km²...
  
   (Fort de -)

Namur (Province of -)

Namur (province)

Namur is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and on France. Its capital is the city of Namur...

Namur

Namur (city)

Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, in southern Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia....

(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 -)

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.-Stockade as a security fence:...

s, log enclosures for fur trading post

Trading post

A trading post was a place or establishment in historic Northern America where the trading of goods took place. The preferred travel route to a trading post or between trading posts, was known as a trade route....

s of the Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...

 or the North West Company

North West Company

The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal 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 European-Canadian settlement of the area. See also :Category: Forts in Canada

Alberta

• Fort Assiniboine
  Fort Assiniboine
  Fort Assiniboine is a hamlet in northwest Alberta, Canada, within Woodlands County. It is located along the north shore of the Athabasca River at the junction of Highway 33 and Highway 661...
  
   (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 and Elbow rivers in what is now Calgary, Alberta.-History:...
  
   (NWMP)
• Fort Chipewyan
  Fort Chipewyan, Alberta
  Fort Chipewyan, commonly referred to as Fort Chip, is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. It is located on the western tip of Lake Athabasca, adjacent to Wood Buffalo National Park, approximately north of Fort McMurray.Fort Chipewyan is one of...
  
   (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 Kent, Alberta
  Fort Kent is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87, located on Highway 28 approximately southwest of Cold Lake.- References :...
  
  
• Fort MacKay
• Fort Macleod (NWMP)
• Fort McMurray
  Fort McMurray, Alberta
  Fort McMurray is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It was previously incorporated as a city on September 1, 1980. It became an urban service area when it amalgamated with Improvement District No. 143 on April 1, 1995 to create the Municipality...
  
   (HBC)
• Fort Saskatchewan (NWMP)
• Fort Vermilion
  Fort Vermilion, Alberta
  Fort Vermilion is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within Mackenzie County.Established in 1788, Fort Vermilion shares the title of oldest European settlement in Alberta with Fort Chipewyan. Fort Vermilion contains many modern amenities to serve its inhabitants as well as the surrounding rural...
  
   (NWC)
• Fort Victoria (HBC)
• Fort Whoop-Up
  Fort Whoop-Up
  Fort Whoop-Up was the nickname given to a whisky trading post, originally Fort Hamilton, near what is now Lethbridge, Alberta. During the late 19th century, the post served as a centre for various illegal activities...
  
    (American whiskey traders)
• Fort Walsh
  Fort Walsh
  Fort Walsh is a National Historic Site of Canada that was a North-West Mounted Police fort and the site of the Cypress Hills Massacre. Administered by Parks Canada, it forms a constituent part of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park....
  
   (NWMP)
• Rocky Mountain House (HBC & NWC) Now a National Historic Site.

British Columbia

• Fort Langley
  Fort Langley, British Columbia
  Fort Langley is a village with a population of 2,700 and forms part of the Township of Langley. It is the home of Fort Langley National Historic Site, a former fur trade post of the Hudson's Bay Company.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Nelson
  Fort Nelson, British Columbia
  Fort Nelson is a town of approximately 5000 residents in British Columbia's northeastern corner. It is the administrative centre of the newly formed Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, a first for BC. The majority of Fort Nelson's economic activities have historically been concentrated in the...
  
  
• Fort St. James
  Fort St. James, British Columbia
  Fort St. James is a district municipality and former fur trading post in north-central British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the south-eastern shore of Stuart Lake in the Omineca Country, at the northern terminus of Highway 27, which connects to Highway 16 at Vanderhoof...
  
  
• Fort St. John
  Fort St. John, British Columbia
  The City of Fort St. John is a city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. A member municipality of the Peace River Regional District, the city covers an area of about 22 km² with 22,000 residents . Located at Mile 47, it is one of the largest cities along the Alaska Highway. Originally...
  
  
• Fort Steele
  Fort Steele, British Columbia
  Fort Steele is a heritage town in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located north of the Crowsnest Highway along Highways 93 and 95, northeast of Cranbrook.-History:...
  
  
• Little Fort
  Little Fort, British Columbia
  Little Fort is a small community on the west bank of North Thompson River in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is some north of Kamloops.The community is located at the junction of Highway 5 and Highway 24 in British Columbia, Canada...
  
  

Manitoba

• Fort Bourbon
  Fort Bourbon
  Fort Bourbon was one of the important northern forts that La Vérendrye had built during his long tenure as commandant of the western forts of New France. This was during the earliest exploration of the northwest of North America...
  
  
• ‎Fort Dauphin
• ‎‎Fort Douglas
  Fort Douglas (Canada)
  Fort Douglas was a fort of the Hudson's 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 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 and Qu'Appelle rivers. The fort was located in what is now west-central Manitoba, Canada, just east of that province's border with Saskatchewan.It was an important fort, as it was...
  
  
• Fort La Reine
  Fort La Reine
  Fort La Reine was built in 1738, one of the forts of the western expansion directed by Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, first military commander in the west of what is now known as Canada. Located on the Assiniboine River where present day Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, stands, the...
  
  
• 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, north of the original Fort Garry, which is now in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Treaty 1 was signed there....
  
  
• 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 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 was named after Nicholas...
  
  
• Fort Maurepas (Canada)
• Fort Paskoya
  Fort Paskoya
  Fort Paskoya or Paskoyac or Pasquia was a French fort and trading post near the mouth of the Saskatchewan River. Along with Fort Bourbon, Fort Dauphin and Fort La Reine is was built by the Vérendryes to control the chain of lakes west of Lake Winnipeg...
  
  
• 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.-History:The European history of this area starts with the discovery of Hudson Bay in 1610. The area was recognized as important in the fur trade and of potential importance for...
  
  
• Riding Mountain House
  Riding Mountain House
  Riding Mountain House was a Hudson Bay Company trading post set up to the south of what is now the Riding Mountain National Park, on the Little Saskatchewan River....
  
  
• York Factory
  York Factory, Manitoba
  York Factory was a settlement and factory located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba, Canada, at the mouth of the Hayes River, approximately south-southeast of Churchill. The settlement was headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Northern Department, from 1821 to...
  
  

New Brunswick

• Fort Beauséjour
• Fort Gaspéreau
• Fort Howe
  Fort Howe
  Fort Howe was built during the American Revolution shortly after the American Siege of Saint John to protect Saint John from further American raids. The 18th and 19th century British Army fortification is built in present-day New Brunswick, Canada at the mouth of the Saint John River where it...
  
  
• 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, 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 Harbour, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada...
  
  
• Fort Red Bay
• Fort Rigolet
• Fort Royal
• Fort St. George
• Fort Sheffield
• Fort Smith
• Fort Townsend
• Fort Waldegrave
  Fort Waldegrave, Newfoundland and Labrador
  Fort Waldegrave was a battery or an emplacement for heavy guns in St.John’s Newfoundland, strategically overlooking the Narrows and St John’s Harbour.-Original purpose:...
  
  
• 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, Canada.Due to its strategic placement overlooking the harbour, fortifications have been placed on the hill since the mid 17th century.-History:...
  
  

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...
  
  
• Fort Franklin, Northwest Territories
  Deline, Northwest Territories
  The Charter Community of Délįne is located in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada on the western shore of Great Bear Lake and is northwest of Yellowknife. Délįne means "where the waters flow", a reference to the headwaters of the Great Bear River, Sahtúdé.The population as of the...
  
   (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. The two principal languages are North Slavey and English...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 south of Inuvik on the Dempster Highway....
  
  
• Fort Norman, Northwest Territories
  Tulita, Northwest Territories
  Tulita, which in Dene language means "where the rivers or waters meet," is a hamlet in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It was 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 South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 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.-History:Fort Smith's history began because of the Slave River and the vital link...
  
  
• 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. It was established in 1786 by Peter Pond of the North West Company and later operated by Sir Alexander Mackenzie...
  
  

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 and was built during Father Le Loutre's War. The fort was created to help prevent the Acadian Exodus from the region...
  
  
• Fort Lawrence (Nova Scotia)
• Fortress of Louisbourg
  Fortress of Louisbourg
  The Fortress of Louisbourg is a national historic site and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th century French fortress at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia...
  
  
• Fort Sainte Anne
  Fort Sainte Anne (Nova Scotia)
  Fort Ste. Anne was a former French military fort located in the Canadian province of Cape Breton.It was situated in Englishtown, Victoria County on Cape Breton Island.The fort was built by Captain Charles Daniel after raiding Baleine...
  
  
• Fort Petrie
• Fort Ochiltree
• Scotsfort
• Charlesfort
• Habitation at Port-Royal
  Habitation at Port-Royal
  The Habitation at Port-Royal was the first successful French settlement of New France in North America, and is presently known as Port-Royal National Historic Site, a National Historic Site located on the northern side of the Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada...
  
  
• 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
  Fort Ellis was an early United States Army outpost established August 27, 1867 to the eastern side of present-day Bozeman, Montana. The fort was established to protect and support settlers moving into the Gallatin Valley. The post was named for Civil War Colonel Augustus van Horne Ellis who was...
  
  
• Fort Belcher
• Fort Grunt

Halifax (Nova Scotia)

• Citadel Hill
• Fort Massey
• Fort Ogilvy
• Fort Needham
• Fort McAlpine
• York Redoubt
  York Redoubt
  York Redoubt is a National Historic Site of Canada situated on a bluff overlooking the entrance to Halifax Harbour at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, originally constructed in 1793. It was a key element in the defence of Halifax Harbour in the 19th and 20th centuries, and underwent many additions to...
  
  
• Fort Clarence
  Fort Clarence
  Fort Clarence is a now defunct fortification that was located in Rochester, Kent, England.-History:The fort was built between 1808 and 1812 to prevent invaders gaining access from Maidstone Road to the River Medway. The work was composed of a long brick revetted dry ditch running between a...
  
  
• Fort Charlotte - (Georges Island Fort)
• Fort McNabb
• Fort Hugonin
• Fort Sackville
• Fort Chebucto
• Fort George
• 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 First United States Infantry...
  
  
• Herring Cove Fort
• Sherbrook Tower
• Prince of Wales Tower
• Duke of Kent Tower
• York Shore Battery
• Grand Battery
  Grand Battery
  Grand Battery was a French artillery tactic of the Napoleonic wars. It involved massing all available batteries into a single large, temporary one, and concentrating the firepower of their guns at a single point in the enemy's lines.Substituting volume of fire for accuracy, rate of fire and rapid...
  
  
• 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

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 Britain 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. It is approximately south of the U.S...
  
  
• Fort Erie
  Fort Erie
  Fort Erie was the first British 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 Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. It is located directly across the river from Buffalo, New York....
  
  
• Fort Frederick
  Fort Frederick (Kingston)
  Fort Frederick is a historic military building located on Point Frederick on the grounds of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Its construction dates to 1846 and the Oregon crisis. The fort consists of earthworks surrounding a Martello tower...
  
   - Kingston
  Kingston, Ontario
  Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...
  
  
• Fort Frontenac
  Fort Frontenac
  Fort Frontenac was a French trading post and military fort built in 1673 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It was positioned at the mouth of the Cataraqui River where the St. Lawrence River leaves Lake Ontario , in a location traditionally known as Cataraqui...
  
   - Kingston
  Kingston, Ontario
  Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...
  
  
• 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 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, Canada on Point Henry, a strategic point located near the mouth of the Cataraqui River where it flows into the St. Lawrence River, at the upper end of the Thousand Islands...
  
   - Kingston
  Kingston, Ontario
  Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...
  
  
• Fort Kaministiquia
  Fort Kaministiquia
  Fort Camanistigoyan, now standardized as Fort Kaministiquia, located at the mouth of the Kaministiquia River on Lake Superior in what is now northwestern Ontario, Canada, was established in 1717 by Zacharie Robutel de la Noue following the restoration of the system of trading permits by...
  
   - Thunder Bay
  Thunder Bay
  -In Canada:Thunder Bay is the name of three places in the province of Ontario, Canada along Lake Superior:*Thunder Bay District, Ontario, a district in Northwestern Ontario*Thunder Bay, a city in Thunder Bay District*Thunder Bay, Unorganized, Ontario...
  
  
• Fort Malden
  Fort Malden
  Fort Malden is a fort that stands 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. The Americans began building a smaller replacement fort on the same site, but this was...
  
   - Amherstburg
  Amherstburg, Ontario
  Amherstburg is a Canadian town near the mouth of the Detroit River in Essex County, Ontario. It is approximately south of the U.S...
  
  
• 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 town of Matachewan, Ontario. This fort was primarily used for the fur trade, and as such the natives of the area often travelled to it to sell off their furs and pick up the staples...
  
   - Matachewan
  Matachewan, Ontario
  Matachewan is a small township in Timiskaming, northeastern Ontario, Canada, located at the end of Ontario Highway 66 along the Montreal River.The town's main economy is based on mineral mining, mainly gold mining, with some tourism.-History:...
  
  
• 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. The fort today consists of a box–shaped brick tower and historic star–shaped earthworks—the only one in the country...
  
   - Niagara-on-the-Lake
  Niagara-on-the-Lake
  Niagara-on-the-Lake is a Canadian town located in Southern Ontario where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario in the Niagara Region of the southern part of the province of Ontario. It is located across the Niagara river from Youngstown, New York, USA...
  
  
• Fort Rouillé
  Fort Rouillé
  Fort Rouillé or Fort Toronto was a French trading post located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that was established around 1750 but abandoned in 1759. The fort site is now part of the public lands of Exhibition Place...
  
   - also called Fort Toronto
• Fort St. Pierre
  Fort St. Pierre
  Fort Saint Pierre was the first fort built west of Fort Kaministiquia by Pierre La Vérendrye in northwestern Ontario. La Vérendrye, the first western commander, built it in 1731 at the beginning of his explorations. As military officer, La Vérendrye had multiple responsibilities, and he created...
  
   - Fort Frances
  Fort Frances, Ontario
  Fort Frances is a town in, and the seat of, Rainy River District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The population as of the 2006 census was 8,103 and Fort Frances' population peaked in 1971 at 9,947...
  
  
• Fort Wellington
  Fort Wellington
  Fort Wellington National Historic Site is a historic military fortification located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River at Prescott, Ontario...
  
   - Prescott
  Prescott, Ontario
  Prescott is a town of approximately 4,180 people on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada. The Ogdensburg-Prescott International Bridge, 5 km east of Prescott in Johnstown, connects it with Ogdensburg, New York...
  
  
• 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 and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Ever since then it has been the largest city in Northwestern...
  
   - Thunder Bay
  Thunder Bay
  -In Canada:Thunder Bay is the name of three places in the province of Ontario, Canada along Lake Superior:*Thunder Bay District, Ontario, a district in Northwestern Ontario*Thunder Bay, a city in Thunder Bay District*Thunder Bay, Unorganized, Ontario...
  
  
• 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 British Army and Canadian militia troops in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, to defend the settlement and the new capital of the...
  
   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.-History:...
  
   - Toronto
  Toronto
  Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
  
  
• Fort Willow - Springwater
  Springwater, Ontario
  Springwater is a township in central Ontario, Canada, in Simcoe County near Barrie. It includes the former townships of Flos and Vespra. Springwater is the County seat of Simcoe.-Communities:...
  
  

Prince Edward Island

• Fort Amherst
• Fort Edward

Quebec

• Fort Chambly
  Fort Chambly
  Fort Chambly is a historic fort in the Canadian La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec. The fort is designated as a National Historic Site. Fort Richelieu was part of a series of five forts built along the Richelieu River. Fort Richelieu is at the mouth of the Richelieu River....
  
  
• Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène
• Fort Saint-Jean
  Fort Saint-Jean (Quebec)
  Fort Saint-Jean is a fort in the Canadian La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec located on the Richelieu River. The fort was first built in 1666 by soldiers of the Carignan-Salières Regiment and was part of a series of forts built along the Richelieu River...
  
   in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
• 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
  Fort Lennox
  Fort Lennox National Historic Site occupies most of Ile aux Noix, an island in the middle of the Richelieu River in the parish of Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix, Quebec, near the Canada-U.S. border...
  
  
• Forts-de-Lévis
  Forts-de-Lévis
  The Forts-de-Lévis were a series of fortifications built around Lévis, Quebec between 1865 and 1872 to help defend Quebec City from the threat of a land invasion from the United States.-Context:...
  
  

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 / Resistance of 1885...
  
  
• Fort Carlton
  Fort Carlton
  Fort Carlton was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trade post from 1810 until 1885. It was rebuilt by the Saskatchewan government as a provincial historic park and can be visited today...
  
  
• 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 Pehonan Creek, a new establishment which originally bore the name of Fort des...
  
  
• Fort Espérance
  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 North West Company and was one of the important pemmican forts for the Assiniboine River district...
  
  
• Fort La Jonquière
• Fort Pitt
  Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan
  Fort Pitt is a fort built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company and 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 bison hides, meat and pemmican...
  
  
• Fort Qu'Appelle
  Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
  These figures do not include the substantial population living along the shores of the Fishing Lakes.-Origins:The current site is the third Fort Qu'Appelle. The first was a North West Company trading post , also in the valley but near what is now the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border...
  
  
• Fort Walsh

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

Hong Kong

Chinese (Qing dynasty

Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....

) forts

• Buddhist Hall (Tung Lung) Fort
  Tung Lung Chau
  Tung Lung Chau , also known as Nam Tong Island is an island located off the tip of the Clear Water Bay Peninsula in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It is also referred by Hong Kong people as Tung Lung To or Tung Lung Island .The island is largely uninhabited...
  
  
• Fan Lau Fort
  Fan Lau Fort
  Fan Lau Fort is a fort in Fan Lau, the southwest corner of Lantau Island in Hong Kong. It is a declared a monument of Hong Kong.-History:...
  
  
• 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 . It has a companion Tung Chung Battery on the coast.-History:...
  
  
• Tung Chung Battery
  Tung Chung Battery
  Tung Chung Battery is a former battery located in Tung Chung, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It is close to Ma Wan Chung.Built in 1817, it is a companion of Tung Chung Fort of the south....
  
  

British colonial forts

• Lei Yue Mun Fort
  Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence
  The Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence is a museum in Hong Kong, located in a former coastal defence fort overlooking the Lei Yue Mun channel, near Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island. The fort was built by the British in 1887, intended to defend the eastern approaches to Victoria Harbour.The total...
  
  
• Stanley Fort
  Stanley, Hong Kong
  Stanley is a town and a tourist attraction in Hong Kong. It located on a peninsula on the southeastern part of Hong Kong Island. It is east of Repulse Bay and west of Shek O, adjacent to Chung Hom Kok...
  
  

Macau

All forts in Macau were built during or used during Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 rule:

• Fortaleza da Guia
  Guia Fortress
  The Guia Fortress is a historical military fort, chapel, and lighthouse complex in the St. Lazarus Parish. The complex is a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Historic Centre of Macau....
  
   or Guia Fortress - Dutch built
• Fortaleza de Mong Há
  Fortaleza de Mong Há
  The Fortaleza de Mong-Há is located on the Colina de Mong-Há in Macau. The fort is part of a greater military reservation - the Bairro Militar de Mong-Há, which included the Quartel de Mong-Há. The Bairro Militar is bound by the Rua Francisco Xavier Pereira and the Colina de Mong-Há...
  
  
• Fortaleza do Monte
  Fortaleza do Monte
  Fortaleza do Monte is the historical military centre of the former Portuguese colony of Macau, in the People's Republic of China...
  
   or Monte Fort

Croatia

• Dubrovnik
• Fort Bokar
• Fort Minčeta
• Fort Lovrijenac
• Fort Revelin

Egypt

• Fort Babylon

Finland

• Turku Castle
  Turku Castle
  Turku Castle is a monument of Finnish history situated in the city of Turku in Finland. Together with Turku Cathedral, the castle is one of the oldest buildings still in use in Finland. Turku Castle is the largest surviving medieval building in Finland and one of the largest surviving medieval...
  
   (sv: Åbo Slott)
• Häme Castle
  Häme castle
  Häme Castle is a medieval castle in Hämeenlinna, 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
  Hämeenlinna is a city and municipality of about inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Häme in the south of Finland and is the birthplace of composer Jean Sibelius. Today, it belongs to the region of Tavastia Proper, and until 2010 it was the residence city for the Governor of the...
  
  
• Castle of Viborg, Viipuri (Now in Russia
  Russia
  Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
  
  )
• St. Olaf's Castle (fi: Olavinlinna), Savonlinna
  Savonlinna
  Savonlinna is a town and a municipality of inhabitants in the southeast of Finland, in the heart of the Saimaa lake region. The Finnish name of the town means "Castle of Savonia" and the Swedish name means "Newcastle".- History :...
  
  
• Suomenlinna
  Suomenlinna
  Suomenlinna, until 1918 Viapori , or Sveaborg , is an inhabited sea fortress built on six islands , and which now forms part of the city of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.Suomenlinna is a UNESCO World Heritage site and popular with both tourists and locals, who...
  
   (sv: Sveaborg), Helsinki
  Helsinki
  Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
  
  
• fortress city of Hamina
  Hamina Fortress
  Hamina Fortress is located in Finland on the coast of the Gulf of Finland and it is an integral part of the Hamina city centre. Hamina fortress is a Star fort, representing the Renaissance ideal city embodied by Palmanova city in northeastern Italy....
  
  ,
• Svartholma fortress, Loviisa
  Loviisa
  Loviisa is a municipality and town of inhabitants on the southern coast of Finland. About 43 per cent of the population is Swedish-speaking.The municipality covers an area of of which is water...
  
  
• fortresses of Ruotsinsalmi (sv: Svensksund
  Battle of Svensksund
  The Battle of Svensksund was a naval battle fought in the Gulf of Finland outside the present day city of Kotka on 9 July 1790. The Swedish naval forces dealt the Russian fleet a devastating defeat that resulted in an end to the Russo-Swedish War of 1788–90...
  
  ), Kyminlinna
  Kyminlinna
  Kyminlinna, ″the castle of Kymi″, is a fortress located in the northern part of Hovinsaari island in Kotka, Finland. Kyminlinna is part of the South-Eastern Finland fortification system built by Russia after Russo-Swedish War of 1788-1790...
  
   and Fort Slava, Kotka
  Kotka
  Kotka is a town and municipality of Finland. Its former name is Rochensalm.Kotka is located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland at the mouth of Kymi River and it is part of the Kymenlaakso region in southern Finland. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water....
  
   http://www.silentwall.com/KotkaSurr.html http://www.metsa.fi/kulttuuriperinto/sodat/kyminlinna.htm
• Bomarsund
  Bomarsund, Åland
  The Battle of Bomarsund was fought by an Anglo-French task force against Russian defenses at Bomarsund during the Crimean War.-Background:Bomarsund is a 19th century fortress which had started to built in 1832 by Russia in Sund on the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea...
  
   fortress, Sund, Åland
  Sund, Åland
  Sund is a municipality of Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland and is very rich in history and culture and is one of the official 27 national landscapes of Finland.The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water...
  
  
• Korela Fortress
  Korela Fortress
  Korela Fortress , at the town of Priozersk, was founded by the Karelians who named the place Käkisalmi.- Origin :...
  
   (fi: Käkisalmi, sv: Kexholm), Priozersk
  Priozersk
  Priozersk is a town 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 on the Karelian Isthmus. It is served by a station of the Saint Petersburg-Kuznechnoye railroad with the same name...
  
   (Now in Russia
  Russia
  Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
  
  )
• Lappeenranta
  Lappeenranta
  Lappeenranta is a city and municipality that resides on the shore of the lake Saimaa in South-Eastern Finland, about from the Russian border. It belongs to the region of South Karelia. With approximately inhabitants Lappeenranta is the largest city in Finland...
  
   (sv. Villmanstrand) Fortress
• Kärnäkoski fortress
  Kärnäkoski Fortress
  Kärnäkoski Fortress is a bastion fortress in Finland located in Kärnäkoski, Savitaipale built by Russia between 1791 and 1793 to protect Saint Petersburg.- Kärnäkoski fortress as part of the South-Eastern Finland fortification system :...
  
  , Savitaipale
  Savitaipale
  Savitaipale is a municipality of Finland.It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the South Karelia region. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is ....
  
  

France

• Fort Bergues
  Bergues
  Bergues is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It is situated to the south of Dunkirk and from the Belgian border. Locally it is referred to as "the other Bruges in Flanders"...
  
  
• Fort Bayonne
  Bayonne
  Bayonne is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture...
  
  
• Fort de Bellegarde
• Bitche
  Bitche
  Bitche is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.It is known for its large citadel. The surrounding territory is known as le Pays de Bitche in French and Bitscherland in German.-Geography:...
  
  
• Fort Blaye
  Blaye
  Blaye is a commune and subprefecture in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:Its inhabitants are called Blayais or the Blayaises.-Geography:...
  
  
• Fort Bouillon
  Bouillon
  Bouillon is a municipality in Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Luxembourg Province.The municipality, which covers 149.09 km², had 5,477 inhabitants, giving a population density of 36.7 inhabitants per km².- History :...
  
  
• Fort Boyard
  Fort Boyard
  Fort Boyard is a fort located between the Île-d'Aix and the Île d'Oléron in the Pertuis d'Antioche straits, on the west coast of France. Though a fort on Boyard bank was suggested as early as the 17th century, it was not until the 1800s under Napoleon Bonaparte that work began.-Layout:Fort...
  
  
• Fort Cambrai
  Cambrai
  Cambrai is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.Cambrai is the seat of an archdiocese whose jurisdiction was immense during the Middle Ages. The territory of the Bishopric of Cambrai, roughly coinciding with the shire of Brabant, included...
  
  
• Fort du Chapus or Fort Louvois
• Fort de Colmars-les-Alpes
• Fort Douaumont
  Fort Douaumont
  Fort Douaumont was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive forts protecting the city of Verdun, France since the 1890s. However, by 1915 the French General Staff had concluded that even the best protected forts of Verdun could not resist bombardments from the German 420mm ...
  
  
• Fort-de-France
  Fort-de-France
  Fort-de-France is the capital of France's Caribbean overseas department of Martinique. It is also one of the major cities in the Caribbean. Exports include sugar, rum, tinned fruit, and cacao.-Geography:...
  
   (on the French Caribbean island of Martinique
  Martinique
  Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados...
  
  )
• Fort de Joux
  Fort de Joux
  The Fort de Joux or Château de Joux is a castle, transformed into a fort, located in La Cluse-et-Mijoux, in the Doubs département, in the Jura mountains of France. It commands the mountain pass "Cluse de Pontarlier"....
  
  
• Fort de la Platte
• Fort Liberia (Villefranche-de-Conflent
  Villefranche-de-Conflent
  Villefranche-de-Conflent is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in south of France.-The Capital of Conflent:The original town dates from 1098 and is fortified because of its strategic position in lands that changed hands between French and Spanish occupation.* 1374, Villefranche...
  
  )
• Fort Lupin
• Fort Montmédy
  Montmédy
  Montmédy is a commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.-Citadel of Montmédy:In 1221 the first castle of Montmédy was built on top of a hill by the Count of Chiny. Montmédy became soon the capital of his territory - later it belonged to Luxembourg, Burgundy, Austria and...
  
  
• Fort Mont Louis
• Fort Neuf-Brisach
• Fort Chateau d'Oleron
• Fort Le Quesnoy
  Le Quesnoy
  Le Quesnoy is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.Le Quesnoy's inhabitants are known as Quercitains.- Economy :The town of Le Quesnoy has somehow missed much of the Industrial Revolution. Unlike the neighboring towns of Valenciennes or Maubeuge, iron/steel works did not take hold...
  
  
• Fort Saint-Elme - (Collioure
  Collioure
  Collioure is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.It lies on the Mediterranean and was a part of the ancient Roussillon province....
  
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• Fort Saint-Martin-de-Ré
  Saint-Martin-de-Ré
  Saint-Martin-de-Ré is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.It is one of the 10 communes located on the Île de Ré.-History:Saint-Martin-de-Ré has extensive fortifications, reflecting the strategic importance of the Île de Ré...
  
  
• Fort Socoa (Saint-Jean-de-Luz
  Saint-Jean-de-Luz
  Saint-Jean-de-Luz is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.Saint-Jean-de-Luz is part of the province Basque of Labourd and the Basque Eurocity Bayonne - San Sebastian .-Geography:...
  
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• Fort de Vincennes
  Vincennes
  Vincennes is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe.-History:...
  
  

Germany

• Ayers Kaserne, Kirchgoens
• 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-Württemberg, Germany...
  
  
• Festung Ehrenbreitstein
  Festung Ehrenbreitstein
  Ehrenbreitstein Fortress is a fortress on the mountain of the same name on the east bank of the Rhine opposite the town of Koblenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate....
  
  
• Festung Königstein
• Fortress Marienberg
  Fortress Marienberg
  Fortress Marienberg is a prominent landmark on the Main river in Würzburg, Germany. The mighty Fortress Marienberg is the symbol of Würzburg and served as a home of the prince-bishops for nearly five centuries. It has been a fort since ancient times...
  
  
• Grauerort fortress
  Grauerort fortress
  Grauerort fortress is a German artillery fort on Elbe river about 9 km north of Stade which was built between 1869 and 1879 to defend the Port of Hamburg. Its shape is hexagonal, taking advantage of the topography of the area and the location of the previously existing levee...
  
  
• 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. The Saalburg, located just off the main road roughly halfway between Bad Homburg...
  
  
• Spandau Citadel
  Spandau Citadel
  The Spandau Citadel is a fortress in Berlin, Germany, one of the best-preserved Renaissance military structures 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...
  
  
• Fortress of Ulm
  Fortress of Ulm
  The fortress of Ulm was one of five federal fortresses of the German Confederation around the cities of Ulm and Neu-Ulm...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Veste Rosenberg, Kronach
  Kronach
  Kronach is a town in Oberfranken, Bavaria, Germany, located in the Frankenwald area. It is the capital of the district 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 Old Town near Mainz Römisches Theater station. The fortress was constructed in 1660 and was an important part of the Fortress Mainz.-History:...
  
  

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 StatesOther:* Golconda...
  
  
• Udayagiri
  Udayagiri Fort
  - Fort in Tamil Nadu :-Location:The fort in Tamil Nadu is located at a distance of 14 km from Nagercoil town in Kanyakumari District. The fort is situated on the Thiruvananthapuram-Nagercoil National highway at Puliyoorkurichi. This was the most important military barracks of the Travancore...
  
  
• Gandikota
  Gandikota
  Gandikota is a small village on the right bank of the river Pennar, 15 km from Jammalamadugu in Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh in India. Gandikota was founded in 1123 by Kapa Raja of nearby Bommanapalle village and a subordinate of Ahavamalla Someswara I, the Western Chalukyan king of Kalyana...
  
  
• Vizayanagaram
• Domakonda
  Domakonda
  Domakonda is a village and a Mandal in Nizamabad district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.Domakonda is one of historical places in nizamabad district and telengana region,domakonda fort is constructed by reddy kings 400 years ago and the shiva temple outside the fort is built by kakatiya...
  
  
• Medak
  Medak
  Medak , is a municipality in Medak District in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is 100 km to the north of Hyderabad.-Geography:Medak is located at . It has an average elevation of 442 metres .-Demographics:...
  
  
• Vanaparthy
• Kondavid Fort

Karnataka

• Anegondi
  Anegondi
  Anegondi , which literally means elephant pit in Kannada, is a small village in Koppal district of Karnataka state, located on the north banks of the Tungabhadra River on the opposite bank of the Vittala Temple....
  
  
• Ankola Fort
• Arakilla Fort, Bijapur
  Bijapur, Karnataka
  Bijapur Urdu:بیجاپور city is the district headquarters of Bijapur District of Karnataka state. Bijapur city is well known for its historical monuments of architectural importance built during the rule of Adil Shahi dynasty...
  
  
• Baburayanakote, Uluvi
• Badami
  Badami
  Badami , formerly known as Vatapi, is a town and headquarters of a taluk by the same name, in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India. It was the regal capital of the Badami Chalukyas from 540 to 757 AD. It is famous for rock cut and other structural temples...
  
  
• Bahadur Banda Fort
• Bailhongal
  Bailhongal
  Bailhongal is a town in Belgaum district of Karnataka state in southern India. It is also the name of the surrounding taluka....
  
  
• Ballarayanadurga
  Charmadi
  Charmadi is a village in Beltangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. It is one of the points in Western ghats through which motorable road passes connecting Dakshina Kannada with Chikkamagaluru district. The section of ghat is known by the name of Charmadi ghat...
  
  
• Bandalli Durga, Kollegal Taluk
• Bangalore
  Bangalore
  Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
  
  
• Bankapura
  Bankapura
  Bankapura is a panchayat town in Haveri district in the state of Karnataka, India. It is in Shiggaon taluk, is just 2.5 km from the Pune-Bangalore national highway NH4, 22 km from Haveri town. Bankapur is about 45 km from Hubli-Dharwad...
  
  
• Basavakalyan
  Basavakalyan
  Basavakalyan is a town in Bidar District of the state of Karnataka, India, and was historically known as Kalyan.-History:Basavakalyan's history dates back to 3000 years with its name being mentioned in Guru Charitra....
  
  
• 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 the fourth largest city of the state of Karnataka, the first three being Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli-Dharwad....
  
  
• Bellary
• Bhalki
  Bhalki
  Bhalki is a town, and a taluka, in Bidar district in the state of Karnataka, India.-History:First mention of the town was made as "Bhallunke" in the vachanas of 12th century sharanas...
  
  
• Bhasmangi Fort, Tumkur Dist.
• Bhimgad Fort, Khanapur Taluk
  Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary
  Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in the Western Ghats, India, Karnataka state. This 13,167.10 hectares of evergreen forest area was long awaiting to be a wild life sanctuary and finally got the wildlife sanctuary tag in March 2010. It lies in the Khanapur Taluk of Belgaum Dist near...
  
  
• Bidar
  Bidar
  Bidar is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the north-eastern part of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of the Bidar District....
  
  
• Budikote
  Budikote
  Budikote or the "Fort of Ash" is a small village situated in Bangarpet Taluk of Kolar District in Karnataka state of India. It is about 15 miles from Kolar Gold Fields the nearest city. It has an old fort, hence the name. It is also the birth place of Hyder Ali, father of Tipu Sultan-the Tiger of...
  
  
• Channarayana Durga, Tumkur Dist.
• Chandragutti, Shimoga Dist.
• Chennagiri, Davangere Dist.
• Chitradurga
  Chitradurga Fort
  Chitradurga Fort , or as the British called it Chitaldoorg, straddles several hills and a peak overlooking a flat valley in the Chitradurga District, Karnataka, India...
  
  
• Chikka Siddarabetta, Tumkur District
  Tumkur district
  Tumkur district is an administrative district in the state of Karnataka in India. The district headquarters are located at Tumkur. The district occupies an area of 10,598 km² and had a population of 2,584,711, of which 19.62% were urban as of 2001...
  
  
• Devanahalli Fort
  Devanahalli Fort
  Devanahalli Fort is located north of Bangalore city, at Devanahalli in the State of Karnataka, India.It was originally built in 1501 by Mallabairegowda, which remained in the hands of his descendants until the mid–eighteenth century...
  
  , Near New Bangalore Airport
• Devarayanadurga
  Devarayanadurga
  Devarayanadurga is a hill station near Tumkur in the state of Karnataka in India. The rocky hills are surrounded by forest and the hilltops are dotted with several temples including the Yoganarasimha and the Bhoganarasimha temples and an altitude of 3940 feet...
  
  
• Gajendragarh
  Gajendragarh
  Gajendragad or Gajendragarh is a town in Ron Taluk Gadag District, North Karnataka, in the state of Karnataka, India.-Introduction:Gajendragad, Gad means Fort, local people generally call as Gada. It is about 54 km from Gadag and is one of the big town in the Gadag District...
  
  
• Garudanagiri
• Gudibande Fort
• Gulbarga
  Gulbarga
  Gulbarga is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the administrative headquarters of Gulbarga District. It was formerly part of Nizam's Hyderabad state...
  
  
• Gummanayakanakote Fort, Bagepalli Taluk.
• Halasi
  Halasi
  Halasi also called as Halsi or Halshi, is a town in Khanapur Taluk, Belgaum District in North Karnataka, Karnataka, India. It is 14 km from Khanapur and about 25 km from Kittur. It is famous for having been the capital of a branch of Kadamba Dynasty...
  
  
• Hanagal
• Hemagudda Fort, Kanakagiri
  Kanakagiri
  Kanakagiri is an historical place in India, situated in Karnataka State, 20 km North West to Gangavati town. The old name of this town was Suvarnagiri. It was the capital of the southern area of the Mauryan Empire. During the Vijayanagar period, this was the chief town of the Bedar Rajas...
  
  
• Hosadurga Fort
  Hosadurga
  Hosdurga is a panchayat town in Chitradurga district in the Indian state of Karnataka.-Geography:Hosdurga is located at . It has an average elevation of 739 metres .-Demographics:...
  
  
• Huliyur Durga
• Huthridurga
  Huthridurga
  Huthridurga is situated about 65 km west of Bengaluru in the state of Karnataka. It is situated off the Kunigal-Magadi state highway ....
  
  
• Jaladurga
  Jaladurga
  right|thumb|250px|JaladurgaJaladurga is a fortified village in Raichur district in the Indian state of Karnataka about 20 km northeest of Lingsugur town. The Adil Shahi Kings of Bijapur built the 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 Ghada, which refers to the granite hill on which the fort is built. It is also referred locally as 'Jamalagadda' or 'Gadaikallu'.The fort was built by Tippu Sultan in 1794 and named...
  
  
• Kabbal Durga
• Kaivara Betta, Bangalore District
  Bangalore district
  In 1986 Bangalore District was split into Bangalore Urban district and Bangalore Rural district.It was located in Karnataka, India....
  
  
• Kampli
  Kampli
  Kampli is a town in the Bellary district, Hospet taluk, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The town is situated about 15 km away from world famous Hampi.- Administration :Kampli is administered by town municipality...
  
  
• Kanakuppa
• Kanoor Fort
• Kasturi Rangappa Nayaka Fort, Sira
  Sira, India
  Sira is a town and taluk headquarters of Sira Taluk of Tumkur district in the state of Karnataka, India. It lies on the National Highway NH-4 and NH-234 .-Geography:...
  
  
• Katageri Fort
• Kavaledurga Fort, Shimoga Dist.
• Kittur
  Kittur
  Kitturu , also called Kittur is a village in Belgaum District of Karnataka state. It is part of the Bailahongal taluk in Belgaum district. It is a place of historical significance because of the resistance of Rani Chennamma of Kitturu to the British Raj.-History:On the outskirts of the town lies...
  
  
• Koppal Fort
• Kummata Durga Fort
• Kurumgad Fort, Karwar
• Madhugiri Fort
• Madikeri
• Magadi Fort http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/394-magadi-savanadurga
• Makalidurga
  Makalidurga
  Makalidurga is a hill fort situated at the village by the same name. It is 50km from Bangalore and 10 km after Doddaballapura. The fort at the summit has an old temple of Shiva with Nandi and it is believed that Markandeya Rishi performed penance here....
  
  
• 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. The capital was moved from Mayurkhandi in Bidar district to Mānyakheṭa during the rule of Amoghavarsha I...
  
  
• Manzarabad Fort, Sakaleshpur
• Midigeshi Fort
• Mirjan Fort
  Mirjan Fort
  The Mirjan Fort is located on the west coast of the Uttara Kannada district in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The fort known for its architectural elegance was the location of several battles in the past...
  
  
• Mudgal Fort, Raichur Dist.
• Nagara Fort, Shimoga Dist.
• Nandidurg
• Nargund Fort, Gadag Dist.
• Nijagal Fort, Tumkur Dist.
• Pavagada Fort, Tumkur Dist.
• Parasgad Fort
  Parasgad Fort
  Parasgad Fort is a ruined hill fort in the Belgaum district of Karnataka state, India. magnificent fort of Parashghad, dating back to the 10th century and built by famous rulers of Ratta dynasty...
  
  , Belgaum district
  Belgaum district
  Belgaum district is a district in the state of Karnataka, India. The city of Belgaum is the district headquarters in North Karnataka. By the 2011 Census of India, it had a population of 4778439...
  
  
• Ramadurga, Chitradurga Dist.
• Sadashivgad fort
• Sandur Fort
• Saundatti
  Saundatti
  Savadatti is one of the oldest towns in Belgaum district in the south Indian state of Karnataka. It is a celebrated pilgrimage centre located 78 kilometres from Belgaum. Savadatti is also the name of the taluk , which was previously named Parasgad. There are several ancient temples in...
  
  
• Sawandurga
  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 awarded to be first among the largest monolith hills in the world. The hill rises to 1226 m above mean sea level and forms a part of the Deccan plateau. It consists of...
  
  
• Shahapur
  Shahapur
  Shahapur is a census town in Thane district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The nearest railway station is Asangaon, which is 85 km from Mumbai CST on the Central railway line. Shahapur is situated around 25 km from Kalyan railway station, 45 km from Thane, and 55 km from...
  
  
• Shimoga
• Sonda Fort
• Srirangapattana
• Shrimanthgad Fort, Shirahatti
• Surpur Fort, Gulbarga Dist.
• Tekkalakota
  Tekkalakota
  Tekkalakota is a panchayat town in Bellary district in the Indian state of Karnataka.-Demographics: India census, Tekkalakota had a population of 23,578. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Tekkalakota has an average literacy rate of 30%, lower than the national average of...
  
  
• Uchchangipura
• Vallabhgad Fort
• Yadgir Fort, Gulbarga Dist.
• Yellur Fort, Belgaum Dist.

Kerala

• Chandragiri Fort
• Fort Hosdurg
• Bekal Fort
  Bekal Fort
  'Bekal Fort' is the largest fort in Kasargod, Kerala, India, spreading over . An important features of this fort are the water-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...
  
  
• Kumbala Fort
• Kalnad Fort
• St. Angelo Fort (Kannur Fort)
• Thalassery Fort
• Kunhali Marakkar Fort (Kottakkal)
• Chalium Fort
• Palakkad Fort
  Palakkad Fort
  Palakkad Fort is an old granite fort situated in the heart of Palakkad town of Kerala state, southern India. It was built by Haider Ali in 1766 ACE and remains one of the best preserved forts in Kerala.-History:...
  
  
• Chetuva Fort (Fort William)
• Kottappuram Fort(Cranganore)
• Travancore Lines
• Pallippuram Fort (Fort Manual/Fort Vypin)
• Anjego Fort

A

• Aad
• Aajobagad
• Abhasgad
• Achala
• Achalpur (Ellichpur)
• Adas
• Adsul
• Adgaum Fort
• Agashi
• Ahmednagar Fort
• Ahiwant (Sarp/Serpent)
• Ajare
• Ajinkyatara
  Ajinkyatara
  Ajinkyatara is a fort on one of the seven mountains surrounding the city of Satara in the Sahayadri Mountains of Maharashtra, India. It is a 16th Century fort and now also holds the television tower for the city of Satara...
  
  
• Akeri
• Akhrani
• Akluj
  Akluj
  Akluj is a city in Solapur district, Maharashtra, India. Akluj was earlier known for its large trade in cotton, which has almost disappeared at present....
  
  
• Akola Fort
  Akola fort
  Akola fort along with the Narnala and Akot forts forms the major fortifications of the Akola district, Maharashtra, India.- History :...
  
   (Asagad/Asadgad)
• Akot Fort
• Alang Fort
• Alibag (Hirakot)
• Amalner Fort
• Ambagad
• Ambi Khurd
• Ambolgad
• Amner (Jilpi)
• Andhalgaum
• Anjaneri
• Anjanvel (Gopalgad)
• Ankai
• Antur
• Arnala Fort
  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...
  
  
• Asava (Ashagad/Asavagad)
• Asherigad
• Assaye
• Aundh
• Aundha (Avandha)
• Ausa (Amarpur/Ambarapur)
• Avachtigad (Medha)
• Avre

B

• Badanera
• Bagni
• Bahadurgad
• Bahadurwadi
• Bahem
• Bahiravgad (Bhai Ramgad/Bairamgad/Saramja)
• Bahirgad
• Bahula Fort
• Baitulawadi (Vetalwadi / Baitalwadi)
• Balapur
• Ballalgad
• Ballalpur
• Balwantgad
• Bande
• Bandra Fort
• Bankot
  Bankot
  Bankot is a town in India. It was made part of Bombay Presidency in 1756.Its most famous structure is Bankot Fort . This was the first residency of the British Raj in Southern Konkan.-References:* * *...
  
   (Fort Victoria / Himmatgad)
• Baramati
• Basgad
• Bavda (Gagangad)
• Bavdhan
• Belapur Fort
  Belapur Fort
  Belapur Fort is a fort near the township of Belapur in Navi Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The fort was built by the Siddis of Janjira. It was later conquered by the Portuguese, and then Marathas. In the early 19th century, the fort was captured by the British...
  
  
• Betavad
• Bhagwantgad
• Bhairavgad
  Bhairavgad
  Bhairavgad is a fort in India, twenty miles south-west of Patan, Maharashtra and about four miles west of Mala, from which it is pretty easily accessible by a rough footpath through dense jungle, is a rounded hill situated on the face of the Sahyadri range and jutting about a hundred feet into the...
  
   (Bhairamgad)
• Bhamer
• Bhamragad
• Bhana Hivra
• Bhandara (Behnor)
• Bhandargad
• Bharatgad
• Bhaskargad (Basgad)
• Bhavangad
• Bhudargad (Bhujbal)
• Bhuikot(Solapur)
• Bhupalgad
• Bhupatgad (Bhopatgad)
• Bhushangad
  Bhushangad
  Bhushangad is a hill fort in the Khatav taluk of the Satara district of Maharashtra, India. It is oval in shape and rises 600 feet above the surrounding plain. Its top is flat being about 300 square yards in area....
  
  
• Birwadi
• Bitangad
• Bodvad
• Bombay Fort
• Borale
• Borgaum
• Bhorgiri
• Bramhagiri

C

• Chakan Fort (Islamabad or Sangramgad or Vikramgad) see Sangram Durg
  Sangram Durg
  Sangram Durg is situated at Chakan, Pune. It is a land fort. Firangoji Narsala was a renowned Maratha warrior and military leader in the army of Shivaji, a Maharaja of Maharashtra, in 17th century India. He is famous for his defence of this fort against a Mughal army led by Shayeste Khan in 1660...
  
  
• Chambhargad
• Chandan
• Chanderi
• Chandgad
• Chandgad
• Chandpur
• Chandragad
• Chandrapur (Gonddurg / Chanderi / Chanda)
• Chandvad (Chanderi / Chandor)
• Chavand (Jund / Prassanagad)
• Chatale
• Chaul (Agarkot / Palm Garden)
• Chauler (Tilwan)
• Chaugaum
• Chimur
• Chinchgad
• Chinchani
• Chopda (Mustafabad)

D

• Dabhol
• Dahanu
  Dahanu
  Dahanu is a coastal city and a municipal council in Thane district in the western state of Maharashtra, India.-The Town:The name "Dahanu Gaon" originates from the word "Dhenu Gram" meaning the village of cows. A lot of cattle, particularly cows were owned by the people in Dahanu. Today, Dahanu...
  
  
• Danda
• Danda Rajpuri
• Danda Rajapur
• Dandot Fort (District Chakwal Punjab Pakistan)
• Dategad (Sudergad / Ghera Dategad)
• Dativre
• Daulatmangal (Bhuleshwar)
• Dehra (Bhorgad/Rajdehr)
• Deogiri (Daulatabad)
• Deoli
• Dermal
• Devgad
• Devrukh
• Dhadgaum
• Dhak (Bahiri / Bhaihari)
• Dhamnya
• Dhangad Fort (Gahangad)
• Dharavi (Kala Killa)
• Dharni
• Dharur (Fatahabad)
• Dhodap
  Dhodap
  Dhodap , is one of the hill forts of Maharashtra state in India. Situated in the Nashik district, the fort is approximately 4750 ft above sea level.-Location:The base village is called as Dhodambe from where you can start to climb the fort...
  
  
• Dhule (Devpur)
• Dindu
• Dondwada
• Dronagiri (Karanja)
• Drug
• Dudmal
• Durgadi Fort
• Dusana

G

• Gadahinglaj
• Gagangad
• Galna (Kelna)
• Gambhirgad
• Gandharvagad
• Ganeshdurg, Sangli
  Sangli
  Sangli is a city in the state of Maharashtra of India. Sangli is known as the Turmeric city for its vast production of Turmeric. Sangli is situated on the banks of river Krishna and is the largest market place for Turmeric in Asia and houses many sugar factories, which it is also noted for...
  
  
• Gawilgad
  Gawilghur
  Gawilghur was a well-fortified mountain stronghold of the Maratha Empire north of the Deccan Plateau, in the vicinity of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati District, Maharashtra. It was successfully assaulted by an Anglo-Indian force commanded by Arthur Wellesley on the 15 December 1803 during the...
  
  
• Ghanora
• Ghargad (Dhargad)
• Ghodbunder fort
  Ghodbunder fort
  Ghodbunder Fort is a located in Ghodbunder Village, Thane, Maharashtra, India. on the hill.In 1530 the Portuguese came to Thane but they only began building the Ghodbunder fort in 1730. The Portuguese name for the fort was Cacabe de Tanna. The British captured the fort and made it their...
  
  
• Ghosalgad (Ghosale)
• Gorakhgad
• Govagad
• Gumtara
• Gunwantgad (Morgiri)
• Golgumbaz (Bijapur)
• Gopalgad (Anjenwel-Guhagar)

H

• Hadsar (Parvatgad)
• Hanumangad (Manchigad / Bijarnigad)
• Hargad
• Harihargad
• Harishchandragad
  Harishchandragad
  Harishchandragad is a hill fort in the Ahmednagar region of India. Its history is linked with that of Malshej Ghat, and it has played a major role in guarding and controlling thesurrounding region.-History:...
  
  
• Harshgad (Harishgad)
• Hatgad
• Helvak
• Hindola
• Hingana
• Harihar
• Harnai

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• Jaigad
• Jalna
• Jallalkheda
• Jamba
• Jamgaum
• Jamner
• Jangli Jaygad
• Janjira (Mehar-ruba/Mehar-rusa)
• Jawlya
• Jivdhan
• Jintur
• Junnar
• Juna Panhala

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• Kachan
• Kada
• Kagal
• Kailashgad
• Kajagad (Lokhandi Killa)
• Kaldurg
• Kala Killa (or Kala Qilla; see Riwa Fort
  Riwa Fort
  The Riwa Fort , locally known as Kala Qilla or Black Fort, is a fort in central Mumbai , India on the banks of the Mithi River. The fort is currently in a dilapidated condition amidst the Dharavi slums. It was built by the first governor of Bombay, Gerald Aungier...
  
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• Kalam (Kalamb/Kolambi)
• Kalanidhigad(kaliwade)
• Kalyan (Durgadi)
• Kamalgad
  Kamalgad
  Kamalgad , also called Bhelanja or Kattalgad is a square hill fort in Wai Taluka in Maharashtra, India.- Location :...
  
  
• Kamandurg
• Kamsagad (Padamdurg)
• Kamtekot
• Kamtha
• Kanchana
• Kankrala (Kankadi)
• Kanhergad (Kanhira)
• Kanheri (Kanhera/Kanherigad)
• Kankadri (Kantra/Kandas)
• Kanakdurg
• Kandhar
• Kangori (aka Mangalgad)
• Kanvai
• Kanhera
• Karad
• Karanja Fort
• Karhe
• Karmala
• Karnala Fort
  Karnala fort
  Karnala fort is a hill fort in Raigad district about 10 km from Panvel city. Currently it is a protected place lying within the Karnala Bird Sanctuary...
  
  
• Karanala
• Katol
• Katragad
• Kaula Killa
• Kauthe
• Kavnai
• Kayar
• Kelapur
• Kelve
• Kenjalgad (Kelanja)
• Khanapur
• Khandaragad
• Khanderi
  Khanderi
  Khanderi is a fortified island 20 km off the coast of Mumbai. This along with its sister fort Underi formed the major fortification along the Mumbai coast. This was built by Shivaji in 1660 CE...
  
  
• Kharda
• Khare Patan
• Khatgad
• Khatoda
• Khatale (Pethkodhala)
• Khelna (see Vishalgad
  Vishalgad
  Vishalgad was one of the important forts of Shivaji and Maratha Empire. The name ‘Vishalgad’ meaning grand fort in Marathi, was given by Shivaji after annexing it for the Maratha Empire in 1659.The fort is about 1130 meters that is 3630 feet.-Origin of the name Vishalgad:Khelna was in the control...
  
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• Khubladha (Thal)
• Kittal
• Kohaj (Komj/Konagad)
• Kokan Diva
• Koldher (Kolther)
• Kole (Kale/Koldurg)
• Koparli (Ranala)
• Korigad
  Korigad
  Korigad is a fort located about 20 km away from Lonavla in Pune district, Maharashtra, India. Its date of construction is not known but likely predates 1500. It is about 929 m above sea level...
  
  
• Korlai fort
  Korlai Fort
  Korlai Fort is a Portuguese fortification in the town of Korlai, Maharashtra, India. It was built on an island which guards the way to the Revdanda Creek. It was meant as a companion to the fort at Chaul. At this strategic position the Portuguese could use it to defend their province which...
  
  
• Kothaligad
  Kothaligad
  Kothaligad is a small Fort is situated to the east of Karjat in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is one of the famous treks in the Karjat area, because of its small height and easy climbing...
  
   (Peth)
• Kudal
• Kulaba
  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...
  
   (Alibag)
• Kulang (Chota Kulang)
• Kumwarigad (Koraigad)
• Kunjalgad
• Kurdugad (Vitangad/Bishramgad)

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• Laling Fort
  Laling fort
  Laling Qila is a small fort situated in the present day Dhule district of Maharashtra state in India. The fort is situated on top of Laling hill about south of Dhule city...
  
  
• Lasalgaum
• Lasur
• Lingana
  Lingana
  Lingana is a massive pinnacle on the mainline of the Sahyadris between Raigad and Torna. It takes its name from its shape which is like a linga. It is 2969 feet high with an ascent of four miles, the first half is easy to climb while the second is difficult. Its rock cut steps have been destroyed...
  
  
• Lohagad
  Lohagad
  AD) built several structures in the fort such as a big tank and a step-well .On the west side, there is a long and narrow wall-like fortified spur called Vinchukata because of its shape...
  
  
• lonawala
• Loni Bhapkar

M

• Machal
• Machindragad
• Madangad Fort
• Madgad
• Madha
• Madhala Buruz
• Mahadevgad
• Mahim Fort
  Mahim Fort
  The Mahim Fort is a fort in Mahim in Mumbai, Maharashtra state, India. Strategically located in the Mahim Bay, the fort overlooks Worli to the south, Bandra to the north, and Mahim to the east. The origins of the fort are unclear, but it occupies a strategic location that has been frequently...
  
  
• Mahimangad (Mahimandangad/Maimangad/Mahimantgad)
• Mahipalgad
• Mahipatgad
• Makarandgad
• Mahuli
  Mahuli
  Mahuli FortAt 2815 ft., this is a sought after trekking destination.It is the highest point in the Thane district. The forest surrounding Mahuli has been declared as a sanctuary. Once Shahaji Raje, father of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, had this fortress under his belt.The nearest railway...
  
  
• Mahurgad Fort
• Malkapur
• Malanggad
  Malanggad
  Malanggad is a hill fort located in Raigad District, Maharashtra. It has an elevation of 789 m above sea level.- Major features :...
  
  
• Malavdi
• Malegaon Fort
• 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...
  
   (Soneri)
• Malot Fort (District Chakwal Punjab Pakistan)
• Manoranjan Fort (Rajamachi)
• Mansantoshgad (or Manasantoshgad)
• Manchur
• Mandangad
  Mandangad
  Mandangad is the northmost taluka in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, India.-Description:Mandangad is the taluka headquarters in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra state in India. The heart of Mandangad is valota.The village is situated at the extreme north of Ratnagiri District...
  
  
• Mangad (Mastiwade/Vinsai)
• Mangalgad
  Mangalgad
  Mangalgad, also known as Kangori, is a fort in Maharashtra near the village of Dudhanewadi. Kangori, or Mangalgad Fort, is in the Mahad sub-division about eleven miles east by south from Mahad town. The fort is built on the top of a steep and treeless spur of the Sahyadris, 2457 feet high, and is...
  
  
• Mangalvedha
• Mangi Tungi
• Manikgad (Gadchandur)
• Manikgad
  Manikgad
  Manikgad is an ancient fort in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra. It is a hill fort 507 metres above sea level built by the Naga kings in the 9 CE. Currently the forts is in a state of ruins and is frequently by wild animals that live in the vicinity like panthers and boars. Several monuments of...
  
  
• Manikpunj
• Manohargad
• Manor
• Markandya (Mayurkhandi)
• Masur
• Mathane
• Mathan (Malchan)
• Mazagon Fort
  Mazagon Fort
  The Mazagaon Fort was a British fort in Mazagaon, Mumbai, in the India state of Maharashtra, built around 1680. The fort was razed by the Siddi general, Yakut Khan in June 1690...
  
  
• Medad
• Mesna
• Miraj Fort(Murtazabad)
• Mohangad (Jasalodgad)
• Mohol
• Moragad
• Mulher
  Mulher
  Mulher is a village in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, India.In ancient times, the village was located around the Mulher fort. Now, Mulher village is situated at foothills 2 km away from the fort. The village belongs to the period of Mahabharata, when it was known as Ratnapur...
  
   (Auranggad/Hargad/Mayurgad/Morgad)
• Mruggad
• Murtazapur
• Murud-Janjira
  Murud-Janjira
  Murud-Janjira is the local name for a fort situated on an island just off the coastal village of Murud, in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, India...
  
   (Near Alibaug)

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• Nagardhan
• Naladurg
• Naladurg (Miragad)
• Nanded
• Kalyangad (Nandgiri)
• Nandos
• Nandurbar
• Narnala (Taliagad)
• Narnala
  Narnala
  Narnala also known as "Shahanur Fort" is an Indian hill fortress in Maharashtra, India. Narnala was one of the thirteen sarkar of Berar Subah...
  
   (Shahanur) near Akot
  Akot
  Akot is a city and a municipal council in Akola district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.-Prashis Meshram-Geography:Akot is located at . It has an average elevation of 345 metres .-Demographics:...
  
   ( Akola )
• Narayangad
  Narayangad
  About three miles east of the town Narayangoan on a detached hill which on the north, south, and west rises sharp from the plain is the dismantled fort of Narayangad .Narayangad is a hill fort near Pune, located 80 km from Pune, 8 km from Narayangaon and 5 km from Khodad village. Near Narayangad is...
  
  
• Narkher
• Nashratpur
• Nhavi Killa (see Ratangad
  Ratangad
  Ratangad is a fort in Ratan Wadi, Maharashtra, India, overlooking the picturesque locale of Bhandardara, one of the oldest artificial catchment area. The fort is about 2000 years old....
  
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• Nivati
• Nimgiri

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• Pabar
• Pabhargad
• Padar
• Padargad
• Padamgad
  Padmadurg
  Padmadurg, also known as Kasa fort, is a fort in Maharashtra, India. It was built by the great Maratha ruler King Shivaji to the northwest of the fort Janjira. It was built mainly to conquer the fort Janjira, although it is not as big as Janjira. Due to incomplete construction, and bombardment...
  
   (Padmagad/Padmadurg)
• Palgad
• Palshi
• Panhala Fort
  Panhala fort
  Panhala fort , also known as Panhalgad, Pahalla and Panalla , is located in Panhala, 20 kilometres northwest of Kolhapur in Maharashtra, India. It is strategically located looking over a pass in the Sahyadri mountain range which was a major trade route from Bijapur in the interior of Maharashtra to...
  
   (near Kolhapur)
• Pan Buruz
• Pandavgad
• Parbat
• Pargadh
  Pargadh
  Paargad Fort is situated to the south of Kolhapur in Maharashtra state in India, at a distance of around 28 km from Chandgad. One of the major attractions of this fort is its serene environment and lush green surroundings...
  
  
• Parkot
• Parinda
• Parola
• Parsik
• Partabgad (see 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.-Geography:...
  
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• Parwadi
• Patheri
• Patta
  Patta
  Patta Killa, also known as Vishramgad, is situated between Nasik and Ahmadnagar in Maharashtra. Shivaji Maharaj once visited and rested there. The residents of Patta Killa are known as Pattekar, meaning residents of Fort Patta....
  
   (aka Vishramgad)
• Patansaongi
• Pauni
• Pavangad
  Pavangad
  Pavangad is a hill fort in the Kolhapur District, Maharashtra half a mile east of Panhala fort from which it is separated by a ravine. The chief defense of the fort is a scarped rock fifteen to twenty-five feet high. In most places the steepness of the rock has been increased by artificial scarping...
  
  
• Peb (Vikatgad)
• Pedagaum (see Bahadurgad)
• Pemgiri (Shahagad)
• Pedka
• Phardapur
• Phonda
• Phutaka Buruz
• Piliv
  Piliv
  Piliv is a village in Tahshil Malshiras in Solapur district in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Geography:Piliv is located on Satara Solapur road, 44 km west of Pandharpur, India. It has an average elevation of 72,964820  sq. metres .-Demographics: India census, Piliv had a population...
  
  
• Pimpalner
  Pimpalner
  Pimpalner , is a village in Parner taluka in Ahmednagar district of state of Maharashtra, India....
  
  
• Pisol (Dighve)
• Prabalgad
  Prabalgad
  Prabalgad is a fort located in between Matheran and Panvel, visible from the Mumbai Pune expressway. The fort is located at an elevation of 2300 feet in the Sahyadri mountains. It is located on a plateau very close to Matheran, but unlike Prabalgad fort does not have a good source of water supply...
  
  
• Prachitgad
  Prachitgad
  Prachitgad is a in the Sahyadri mountain range in Maharashtra, India. It covers an area of .- Location :It is located within Ratnagiri district at Shringarpur. The closest city is Sangameshwar which is approximately 22 km away.-Major Features:It has an outer wall and an inner wall. The outer wall...
  
  
• 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.-Geography:...
  
  
• Purandar fort
  Purandar fort
  Purandar fort पुरंदर किल्ला figures repeatedly in the rising of Shivaji against the Bijapur kingdom and the Mughals. Purandhar fort stands 4,472 ft. above the sea in the Western Ghats, 20 miles southeast of Pune. It actually consists of two forts - Purandar and Vajragad...
  
  
• Purnagad

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• Raigad fort (Rairi/Shivtirth)
• Raipur (Rajkot)
• Rajapur
• Rajangaum
• Rajdehar
• Rajdher
• Rajgad
  Rajgad
  Rajgad , literally meaning King of forts, one of the forts of Maharashtra state in India. Situated in the Pune district, the fort is approximately 1326 meters above sea level....
  
  
• Rajgoli
• Rajmachi Fort
• Rajkot
• Rajura
• Ramgad
• Ramsej
  Ramsej
  Ramsej is a small fort 10 km from Nashik in North-west direction.Ramsej fort near Nashik fought with Mughal's for five and half years. Unfortunately we do not know the name of leader who was fighting but after five and half years he was transferred and new killedar was appointed. Mughal's won...
  
   (Ramsejgad)
• Ramtek
• Ranganagad (Prassidhagad)
• Randhiv
• Rasalgad
• Ratangad
  Ratangad
  Ratangad is a fort in Ratan Wadi, Maharashtra, India, overlooking the picturesque locale of Bhandardara, one of the oldest artificial catchment area. The fort is about 2000 years old....
  
   (Ratanwadi, Akole
  Akole
  Akole is a city in Akole tehsil of Ahmednagar district state of Maharashtra. in IndiaAkole is a Taluka Place in Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra State India.Well Surrounded with the mountains of Sahyadri....
  
  , Ahmednagar )
• Ratnagiri (Ramdurg, or Bhagwati; see Ratnadurg)
• Raver (Rasalpur)
• Rawlya
• Revdanda
  Revdanda
  Revdanda is a village near Alibag, India. It is 17 km away from Alibag and 125 km away from Mumbai.-Directions:Till a few years ago the coastal road that goes south from Alibag used to terminate at Revdanda where it encountered the Kundalika creek. A bridge now spans the creek and the...
  
  
• Riwa Fort
  Riwa Fort
  The Riwa Fort , locally known as Kala Qilla or Black Fort, is a fort in central Mumbai , India on the banks of the Mithi River. The fort is currently in a dilapidated condition amidst the Dharavi slums. It was built by the first governor of Bombay, Gerald Aungier...
  
  
• Rohida Fort (Vichitragad)
• Rohilgad
• Rohtas fort (punjab pakistan)

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• Sadashivgad
  Sadashivgad
  Sadashivgad is a fort located in Karwar, Uttara Kannada district, in the state of Karnataka in India. Significant and picturesque, the fort is now a popular tourist destination located by the Kali river bridge, which has been built at the confluence of the river and the Arabian Sea...
  
  
• Sagargad (Kheldurg/Khaladurg)
• Saitonda (Sutanda)
• Sajjangad
  Sajjangad
  Sajjangad meaning Fort of Good People, is located near the city of Satara, India. It is the final resting place of Sant Ramdas, a saint and social reformer in 17th century India...
  
   (Navarastara/Parali)
• Sakri
• Salher Fort (Salir/Saler)
• Salota
• Samangad
  Samangad
  Samangad is a hill fort in Kolhapur District, Maharashtra. It is above sea level. The fort is situated on the oval-shaped top of the hill. The eight-foot-high wall of the fort which encircled the hill top is still intact. Earlier several cisterns cut out of the rock ensured a plentiful supply of...
  
  
• Samkshi (Badrud-din)
• Sangli
• Sanjan
• Santoshgad
  Santoshgad
  Santoshgad is a fort in Phaltan taluka of Satara districtin Maharashtra, India-External links:* from the Maharashtra state government gazetteer.-See also:*List of forts in Maharashtra...
  
   (Thatvade/Thatoli)
• Sarasgad Fort (Aminabad/Pali)
• Sarjekot
• Satara (Azimtara or Azamgarh; see Ajinkyatara
  Ajinkyatara
  Ajinkyatara is a fort on one of the seven mountains surrounding the city of Satara in the Sahayadri Mountains of Maharashtra, India. It is a 16th Century fort and now also holds the television tower for the city of Satara...
  
  )
• Sathavli
• Savda
• Sawantwadi
• Sawargaum
• Sewri Fort
  Sewri Fort
  The Sewri Fort is a fort in Mumbai built by the British at Sewri. Built in 1680, fort served as a watch tower, atop a quarried hill overlooking the Mumbai harbour.-History:...
  
  
• Shahada
• Shahagad (Bhimgad)
• Shaniwar Wada
  Shaniwar Wada
  Shaniwarwada is a palace fort in the city of Pune in Maharashtra, India. Built in 1736, it was the seat of the Peshwa rulers of the Maratha Empire until 1818 when the Peshwas surrendered to the British...
  
  
• Shegwa
• Shirgaum
• Shirpur
• Shirval (Subhamangalgad)
• Shivgad
• Shivasamarth gad
• Shivaneri
  Shivneri Fort
  Shivneri Fort is a historic military fortification located near Junnar. It is the birthplace of Shivaji.Shahaji, Shivaji's father, was a general in the army of the Adil Shah, Sultan of Bijapur. He was concerned for the safety of his wife Jijabai during her pregnancy as there was constant warfare...
  
  
• Shrivardhan Fort
  Shrivardhan fort
  Shrivardhan fort is one of the two hill forts that constitute the Rajmachi fortification, the other being Manaranjan fort. It is located in Rajmachi village which 8.5 km from Lonavala in the Sahyadris mountain range. At 900 m above sea level it was the taller of the two peaks. Other than a...
  
   (Rajamachi)
• Shrimangalgad (Haji Malang)
• Sidhagad (Bakshidabaksh)
• Sidgad
• Sindhkhedraja
• 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.-History:Sindhudurg was built by the great Maratha...
  
  
• Sinhgad (Kondana/Bakshidabax)
• Sindola
• Sironcha
• Sitabuldi Fort
  Sitabuldi Fort
  Sitabuldi fort is located in the middle of Nagpur, India, atop a small hillock. The fort was built by Appa Sahib or Mudhoji II Bhonsle of the Kingdom of Nagpur, just before he fought against the British East India Company during the Third Anglo-Maratha War. The area surrounding the hillock is now...
  
  
• Solapur Fort
• Songad
• Sonegaum
• Songiri (Songir?)
• Sudhagad
  Sudhagad
  Sudhagad is a hill fort situated in Maharashtra, India. It lies about west of Pune, south of Lonavla and east of Pali in Raigad District. The summit is above sea level.- History :...
  
   (Bhorap)
• Sumargad
• Surgad (Ghera Surgad)
• Surjagad
  Surjagad
  Surjagad is a small village near Etapalli. There is a yearly festival known as 'Surjagad Yatra' in first week of January. It is a major festival for the Madia Tribes in Bhamragad and Etapalli Talukas of Gadchiroli District. Deity of God is situated in a dense forest and hilly area. This place is...
  
  
• Suvarnadurg
  Suvarnadurg
  Suvarnadurg is a fort that is located on a small island in the Arabian Sea, near Harnai in Konkan, along the West Coast of India, in the Indian state of Maharashtra...
  
   (Harnai)
• Sonori fort (Saswad)

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• Takmak (or Takmak Tok ; see Raigad Fort)
• Talegad
• Taloda
• Tambhurni
• Tambolya
• Tamkicha Buruz
• Tandulwadi
• Tankai
  TankAI
  TankAI is a Robocode clone written in Microsoft Visual C# 2005 by Michael T. Moosman. TankAI is currently in beta and no official release date has been set...
  
  
• Tarapur
• Tarkhed
• Telbaila
• Tembhurni
• Thalner
• Thane (Hirakot)
• Tipagad
• Tikona (Vitangad)
• Toranmal
• Torna (Prachandagad/Khutublai)
  Torna Fort
  Torna Fort or Prachandagad is a large fort located in Pune district in the state of Maharashtra, India. It is historically significant because it is the first fort captured by Shivaji in 1643, forming the nucleus of the Maratha empire. The hill has an elevation of 1405 mts. above sea level, making...
  
  
• Trimbak (Brahmagad(giri)/Shrigad)
• Tringalwadi
• Tung Fort
  Tung Fort
  Tung Fort is a hill fort in Pune District, India.- Location :It is about 12 km from Malawli railway station and can also be approached from Lonavala. Tung Fort has an elevation of 1075 m above sea level. After the building of Pawna dam, it is now surrounded by water on three sides...
  
  (Khatingad)
• Tungar
• Tungi (see Tung Fort
  Tung Fort
  Tung Fort is a hill fort in Pune District, India.- Location :It is about 12 km from Malawli railway station and can also be approached from Lonavala. Tung Fort has an elevation of 1075 m above sea level. After the building of Pawna dam, it is now surrounded by water on three sides...
  
  )

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• Uchitgad(see Prachitgad
  Prachitgad
  Prachitgad is a in the Sahyadri mountain range in Maharashtra, India. It covers an area of .- Location :It is located within Ratnagiri district at Shringarpur. The closest city is Sangameshwar which is approximately 22 km away.-Major Features:It has an outer wall and an inner wall. The outer wall...
  
  )
• Udgir Fort
  Udgir Fort
  Udgir city is known for a well built fort of pre-Bahamani age, dating from the twelfth century CE. It is also famous for the historic battle in which Marathas, led by Sadashivrao Bhau, defeated Nizam, and after which the treaty of Udgir was signed....
  
  
• Umbargaum
• Umred
• Underi
  Underi
  Underi is a fortified island near the mouth of Mumbai harbour south of Prong's Lighthouse. It is a companion fort to Khanderi and currently lies in Raigad district, Maharashtra. These islands of Khanderi and Underi served as one of the landmarks for ships entering Mumbai harbour...
  
   (see Jaidurg)
• Usrani

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• Vaghera
• Vairatgad
• Vaishakhgad
• Vandan
• Varangaum
• Vardhangad
• Varugad
• Vasai Fort (Bassein Fort/Bajipur)
• Vasantgad (Khild-i-Fateh)
• Vasota (Vajragad/Vyagrahgad)
• Vazirgad
• Vengurla
  Vengurla
  Under the Köppen climate classification, Vengurla features a tropical monsoon climate. The highest temperature in summer reaches 42°C while in winter, temperature drops up to 10°C. The annual precipitation is .-Demographics:...
  
  
• Versova Fort
  Madh Fort
  Madh Fort is a small fort in northern Mumbai, India situated at Madh Island. It was built by the Portuguese and lost it in February 1739 during the war against Maratha empire. It is secluded and difficult to reach, about from Malad and is the last stop on route 271 of BEST bus service or via...
  
  (also called Madh Fort
  Madh Fort
  Madh Fort is a small fort in northern Mumbai, India situated at Madh Island. It was built by the Portuguese and lost it in February 1739 during the war against Maratha empire. It is secluded and difficult to reach, about from Malad and is the last stop on route 271 of BEST bus service or via...
  
  )
• Vetalgad
• Vijaydurg
  Vijaydurg fort
  Vijaydurg , the oldest fort on Sindhudurg coast was constructed in the regime of Raja Bhoj of shilahar dynasty in 1205 . The fort was earlier known as "Gheria" as it is situated in the village "Girye"...
  
   (Gheria)
• Vijaygad
• Vikhara
• Vilashgad (a part of Jaigad)
• Vinchur
• Virthan
• Visapur
  Visapur fort
  Visapur fort is a hill fort near Visapur village in Maharashtra, India. It is a part of the Lohagad-Visapur fortification.- Location :...
  
  
• Vishalgad
  Vishalgad
  Vishalgad was one of the important forts of Shivaji and Maratha Empire. The name ‘Vishalgad’ meaning grand fort in Marathi, was given by Shivaji after annexing it for the Maratha Empire in 1659.The fort is about 1130 meters that is 3630 feet.-Origin of the name Vishalgad:Khelna was in the control...
  
   (Satkarlana/Khelna/Jinkhed)
• Vichitragad

W

• Wadgaum
• Wadgaum Madhe
• Wadgaum Nimbalkar
• Wajragad (Rudramal)
• Wathar
• Worli Fort
  Worli Fort
  thumb|250px|Old map of the region .The Worli Fort is a fort built by the British in Worli, Mumbai , India. The fort, often mistakenly referred to as being built by the Portuguese, was actually built by the British around 1675. The fort, built on the Worli hill, overlooked the Mahim Bay at a time...
  
  

Rajasthan

• Amber Fort
  Amber Fort
  Amer Fort is located in Amer , from Jaipur, Rajasthan state, India. It is one of the principal tourist attractions in the Jaipur area, located high on a hill. .Amer Fort was made by Meenas king Raja Alan Singh Chanda later occupied by Kachhawa rajput . Amer Fort is known for its artistic style,...
  
  , Jaipur
  Jaipur
  Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
  
  
• Chittaurgarh Fort, Chittor
• Junagarh Fort
  Junagarh Fort
  Junagarh Fort is a fort in the city of Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. 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 outside the fort limits. It is one of the few major forts in Rajasthan which...
  
  , Bikaner
• Kotah Fort, Kota
  Kota, Rajasthan
  Kota , formerly known as Kotah, is a city in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located south of state capital, Jaipur. Situated on the banks of Chambal River, the city is the trade centre for an area in which millet, wheat, rice, pulses, coriander and oilseeds are grown; industries...
  
  
• Kumbhalgarh Fort, Udaipur
  Udaipur
  Udaipur , also known as the City of Lakes, is a city, a Municipal Council and the administrative headquarters of the Udaipur district in the state of Rajasthan in western India. It is located southwest of the state capital, Jaipur, west of Kota, and northeast from Ahmedabad...
  
  
• Lohagarh Fort
  Lohagarh Fort
  Lohagarh Fort is situated at Bharatpur 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...
  
  , Bharatpur
  Bharatpur, India
  Bharatpur is a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It was founded by Maharaja Suraj Mal in 1733. Located in the Brij region, Bharatpur was once an impregnable, well-planned and well-fortified city, and the capital of Jat kingdom ruled by Sinsinwar Maharajas.The trio of Bharatpur, Deeg and...
  
  
• Mehrangarh Fort
  Mehrangarh Fort
  Mehrangarh Fort, located in Jodhpur city in Rajasthan state, is one of the largest forts in India.The fort is situated 400 feet above the city and is enclosed by imposing thick walls. Inside its boundaries there are several palaces known for their intricate carvings and expansive courtyards. A...
  
  , Jodhpur
  Jodhpur
  Jodhpur , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located west from the state capital, Jaipur and from the city of Ajmer. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, the capital of the kingdom known as Marwar...
  
  
• Sonar Qila, Jaisalmer
  Jaisalmer
  Jaysalmer , nicknamed "The Golden City", is a town in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located west from the state capital Jaipur. It was once known as Jaisalmer state. The town stands on a ridge of yellowish sandstone, crowned by a fort, which contains the palace and several ornate Jain...
  
  
• 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. It was constructed in AD 1354 upon a steep hillside. There are three gateways to the...
  
  , Bundi
  Bundi
  Bundi is a city and a municipality of approximately 88,000 inhabitants in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan state in northwest India. It is of particular architectural note for its ornate forts, palaces, and stepwell reservoirs known as baoris...
  
  

Tamil Nadu

• Vellore Fort
  Vellore Fort
  Vellore Fort is a large 16th-century fort situated in Vellore city near Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The Fort was at one point of time the headquarters of the Vijayanagara Empire...
  
  
• Attur Fort
  Attur
  Attur is a town, municipality and capital of Attur Taluk in the Salem district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.-Etymology:The name of the town derives from the word "Aaru", meaning "River" and "Oor", meaning "Town/City/village" - Vasishta Nadi...
  
  , Salem
• Dindigul
  Dindigul
  Dindigul is a town and municipality in the Tamil Nadu state of southern India. The name Dindigul comes from the Portmanteau of “Thindu” meaning pillow and “kal” meaning Rock and refers to the bare hill dominating the city’s both land and skyscape...
  
   Rock Fort
• Udayagiri
  Udayagiri Fort
  - Fort in Tamil Nadu :-Location:The fort in Tamil Nadu is located at a distance of 14 km from Nagercoil town in Kanyakumari District. The fort is situated on the Thiruvananthapuram-Nagercoil National highway at Puliyoorkurichi. This was the most important military barracks of the Travancore...
  
   Fort
• Gingee Fort
  Gingee Fort
  Gingee Fort also known as Chenji or Jinji in Tamil Nadu, India is one of the few surviving forts in Tamil Nadu, India. It lies in Villupuram District, from the state capital, Chennai, and is close to the Union Territory of Pondicherry...
  
  
• Trichy Rock Fort
• 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.-History:It was bought from the Mahrattas by the British East India Company in 1690. Robert Clive served as the governor of Fort St David in 1756.The ruins of Fort St David...
  
  , Cudalore
• Fort St George
  Fort St George
  Fort St George is the name of the first English fortress in India, founded in 1639 at the coastal city of Madras, the modern city of Chennai. The construction of the Fort provided the impetus for further settlements and trading activity, in what was originally a no man's land...
  
  , Chennai

Indonesia

• Fort Marlborough in Bengkulu
  Bengkulu
  Bengkulu is a province 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. The capital and largest city is Bengkulu city. It was formerly the site of a British garrison, which they called Bencoolen...
  
  , Sumatra
• Fort Rotterdam
  Fort Rotterdam
  Fort Rotterdam was a Dutch fort built in Makassar on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia during the 1670s. It was originally known as Ujung Pandang, named after the screwpine pandanus pal which grew in the region and was used for making mats. The fort became a center of Dutch colonial power in...
  
   in Makassar
  Makassar
  Makassar, is the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sulawesi Island. From 1971 to 1999, the city was 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 km². It is situated in the Minangkabau highlands, 90 km by road from the West Sumatran capital city of Padang. It is located at , near the volcanoes Mount...
  
  , West Sumatra
  West Sumatra
  West Sumatra is a province of Indonesia. It lies on the west coast of the island Sumatra. It borders the provinces of North Sumatra to the north, Riau and Jambi to the east, and Bengkulu to the southeast. It includes the Mentawai Islands off the coast...
  
  
• Fort Vredeburg
  Fort Vredeburg
  Fort Vredeburg is a fortress built by the Dutch in Yogyakarta during Colonial times. It is located in front of Gedung Agung, one of seven presidential palaces in Indonesia and the Sultan Palace called Kraton. It was built in 1765 to protect the Dutch governor. It is surrounded by a trench that is...
  
   in Yogyakarta
  Yogyakarta (city)
  Yogyakarta is a city in the Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. It is renowned as a centre of classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, ballet, drama, music, poetry, and puppet shows. Yogyakarta was the Indonesian capital during the Indonesian National Revolution from 1945 to...
  
  , 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 province of Indonesia. It lies on the west coast of the island Sumatra. It borders the provinces of North Sumatra to the north, Riau and Jambi to the east, and Bengkulu to the southeast. It includes the Mentawai Islands off the coast...
  
  
• Fort Victoria in Ambon, the Moluccas
• Fort Vastenburg in Surakarta
  Surakarta
  Surakarta, also called Solo or Sala, is a city in Central Java, Indonesia of more than 520,061 people with a population density of 11,811.5 people/km2. The 44 km2 city adjoins Karanganyar Regency and Boyolali Regency to the north, Karanganyar Regency and Sukoharjo Regency to the east and...
  
  , Java
• Citadel Prins Frederik in Jakarta
  Jakarta
  Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...
  
  , Java, now Istiqlal Mosque
  Istiqlal Mosque
  Istiqlal Mosque, or Masjid Istiqlal, in Jakarta, Indonesia is the largest mosque in Southeast Asia in terms of capacity to accommodate people and building structure. This national mosque of Indonesia was built to commemorate Indonesian independence, as nation's gratitude for Islam's blessings; the...
  
  
• Imam Bonjol Fort in Bonjol
  Bonjol
  Bonjol is name of a subdistrict in the Pasaman regency , province West Sumatera, Indonesia. It is famous especially for its location as it lies just at the equator line...
  
  , West Sumatra
  West Sumatra
  West Sumatra is a province of Indonesia. It lies on the west coast of the island Sumatra. It borders the provinces of North Sumatra to the north, Riau and Jambi to the east, and Bengkulu to the southeast. It includes the Mentawai Islands off the coast...
  
  
• 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.-History:...
  
   in Bandanaira, Banda Islands
  Banda Islands
  The Banda Islands are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about south of Seram Island and about east of Java, and are part of the Indonesian province of Maluku. The main town and administrative centre is Bandanaira, located on the island of the same name. They rise...
  
  

Israel

• Acre
  Acre, Israel
  Acre , is a city in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. Acre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the country....
  
  
• 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. The city site, Tel Arsuf, was intensively excavated from 1994...
  
   (a.k.a Apollonia)
• Belveer
  Mevaseret Zion
  Mevaseret Zion is a suburb of Jerusalem, Israel. Mevaseret Zion is composed of two distinct townships, Maoz Zion and Mevaseret Yerushalayim—under the jurisdiction of one local council. The newer neighborhoods of Mevaseret Zion were not part of either settlement.Mevaseret Zion is located on a...
  
  
• Belvoir
  Belvoir Fortress (Israel)
  Belvoir Fortress is a Crusader fortress in northern Israel, on a hill south of the Sea of Galilee. Gilbert of Assailly, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, began construction of the castle in 1168. The restored fortress is located in Belvoir National Park...
  
   (a.k.a Kochav Ha-Yarden)
• Beth Gibelin
• Bethsan
• Burj al Ahmar
  Burgata
  Burgata is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain on Highway 57 between Netanya and Tulkarm, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 929....
  
  , (a.k.a. Hurvat Burgata)
• Bokek Stronghold
  Ein Bokek
  Ein Bokek is a hotel and resort district on the Israeli shore of the Dead Sea, near Neve Zohar. It is under the jurisdiction of the Tamar Regional Council....
  
  
• 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 II of Judea...
  
   (a.k.a Antipatris Fortress)
• Caesarea
• Cafarlet
  Cafarlet
  Cafarlet is a fortress that was located in the village of Kfar Lam, built in the 8th or 9th century. Today, it is located inside moshav HaBonim, Israel.-External links:*...
  
   (a.k.a. HaBonim Fortress)
• Casal des Plains
  Azor
  Azor is a small town in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, on the old Jaffa-Jerusalem road southeast of Tel Aviv. Established in 1948, Azor was granted local council status in 1951. It was named for the ancient city of Azur , preserved in the name of the Arab village of Yazur...
  
  
• Castellum Regis
  Mi'ilya
  -Bibliography:*Abu-‘Uqsa, Hanaa  : Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, No. 117.*Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener : . London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 1, London,...
  
  
• Chateau Pelerin
  Chateau Pelerin
  Château Pèlerin, also known as Atlit Castle and Castle Pilgrim, is located on the northern coast of Israel about south of Haifa. The Knights Templar began building it in 1218 during the Fifth Crusade. One of the major Crusader fortresses, it could support up to 4,000 troops in siege conditions. ...
  
   (a.k.a Atlit Fortress)
• Latrun
  Latrun
  Latrun is a strategic hilltop in the Ayalon Valley in Israel overlooking the road to Jerusalem. It is located 25 kilometers west of Jerusalem and 14 kilometers southeast of Ramla.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Le Destroit
  Le Destroit
  Le Destroit is a medieval fortress, located near the town of Atlit, Israel....
  
  
• 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. The towers were enclosed by a wall six to seven meters high. Two huge gates in the wall...
  
   (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 horst, on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea. Masada is best known for the violence that occurred there in the first century CE...
  
   (Metzada in Hebrew)
• Mirabel
  Migdal Afek
  Migdal Afek Migdal Afek Migdal Afek (also Migdal Tsedek is a national park near Rosh HaAyin, Israel. On the site are the ruins of Mirabel, a Crusader castle. Before the establishment of the state, the Palestinian Arab village of Majdal Yaba was located in this area....
  
   (a.k.a. Migdal Afek or Migdal Tsedek)
• Montfort Castle
  Montfort Castle
  Montfort is a ruined crusader castle 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 a medieval fortress situated in the northern Golan Heights, on a ridge rising about 800 m above sea level.-History:...
  
   (a.k.a Qal'at Namrud)
• Qaqun Fortress
  Qaqun
  Qaqun was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Tulkarm 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 that stands today was constructed during the 2nd century BC and subsequently destroyed and rebuilt by,...
  
  
• Tzippori
  Tzippori
  Tzippori , also known as Sepphoris, Dioceserea and Saffuriya is located in the central Galilee region, 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. Around 1095, Christians from Europe marched to the Holy Land to retake control of Jerusalem. By 1099, the...
  
   (a.k.a Ateret Fortress)
• Yehiam Fortress
  Yehiam
  Yehiam founded on November 26, 1946, is a Kibbutz located in the western Upper Galilee region of Israel - about 10 miles due east of the coastal town of Nahariya and five miles south of the border with Lebanon...
  
  

Lazio

• Michelangelo's Fort, Civitavecchia
  Civitavecchia
  Civitavecchia is a town and comune of the province of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio. A sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea, it is located 80 kilometers west-north-west of Rome, across the Mignone river. The harbor is formed by two piers and a breakwater, on which is a lighthouse...
  
  
• Fortress of Sant'Andrea, Itri
  Itri
  Itri is a small city and comune in the central Italian region of Latium and the Province of Latina.Itri is an agricultural centre divided in two parts by a small river, the Pontone. It lies in a valley between the Monti Aurunci and the sea, not far from the Gulf of Gaeta...
  
  

Liguria

Liguria

Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. Its capital is Genoa. It is a popular region with tourists for its beautiful beaches, picturesque little towns, and good food.-Geography:...

• Fortresses of Genoa
  Genoa
  Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
  
   (sixteen forts on the hills around the city of Genoa; see: Walls of Genoa (section "The fortresses")
• Priamar Fortress
  Priamar Fortress
  The Priamar Fortress is a fortress occupying the hill with the same name above the port of Savona, Liguria, northern Italy.-History:...
  
  , Savona
  Savona
  Savona is a seaport and comune in the northern Italian region of Liguria, capital of the Province of Savona, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea....
  
  

Marche

Marche

The population density in the region is below the national average. In 2008, it was 161.5 inhabitants per km2, compared to the national figure of 198.8. It is highest in the province of Ancona , and lowest in the province of Macerata...

• Fortress of San Leo
  Fortress of San Leo
  The Fortress of San Leo is a castle on the border of the Marche and Romagna regions of central Italy, and famous as the death-place of Count Cagliostro. It contains a museum....
  
  , Marche
  Marche
  The population density in the region is below the national average. In 2008, it was 161.5 inhabitants per km2, compared to the national figure of 198.8. It is highest in the province of Ancona , and lowest in the province of Macerata...
  
  
• Fortezza Albornoz, Urbino
  Urbino
  Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482...
  
  

Tuscany

Tuscany

Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....

• Medici Fortress, Arezzo
  Arezzo
  Arezzo is a city and comune in Central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about 80 km southeast of Florence, at an elevation of 296 m above sea level. In 2011 the population was about 100,000....
  
  
• Belvedere (fort)
  Belvedere (fort)
  The Forte di Belvedere or Fortezza di Santa Maria in San Giorgio del Belvedere is a fortification in Florence, Italy...
  
  , Florence
  Florence
  Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
  
  
• Medici Fortress of Santa Barbara, Pistoia
  Pistoia
  Pistoia is a city and comune in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno.-History:...
  
  
• Orsini Fortress, Pitigliano
  Pitigliano
  Pitigliano is an Italian town and comune of province of Grosseto in the Maremma area of Tuscany. The town stands on an abrupt tuff butte high above the Olpeta, the Fiora and the Lente rivers.-History:...
  
  
• Fortress of Populonia, Populonia
  Populonia
  Populonia or Populonia Alta today is a frazione of the comune of Piombino . As of 2009 its population was 17...
  
  
• Medicean Fortress, Volterra
  Volterra
  Volterra, known to the ancient Etruscans as Velathri, to the Romans as Volaterrae, is a town and comune in the Tuscany region of Italy.-History:...
  
  

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, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis...
  
  
• Porta de Santiago or Fort A'Famosa
• Utrecht Fort
• Fort Philipina or Fort Kuala Linggi
• Fort Margherita
  Fort Margherita
  Fort Margherita is an old fort built in 1879 by Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak situated in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The fort is an important landmark and monument in Sarawak's history which goes back to the Brooke Dynasty. The fort, built in the style of an English castle, was designed to...
  
  
• Fort Sylvia
  Fort Sylvia
  Fort Sylvia is a historical monument located in Kapit town in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia. Built in 1880, it was renamed after Rani Sylvia Brooke, wife of Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke, in 1925...
  
  
• 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. Today the muzzle loading guns used to defend the fort can be seen within the grounds of...
  
   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, Malaysia.-History:The fort was built in the 1870s as the residence of Ngah Ibrahim. After the murder of J.W.W. Birch on 1 November 1875, the fort became a court for the trial of Birch's murder...
  
  
• 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.-History:The fort was built between 1876 and 1888 by the British. The main gate carries a date of 1881, but this is the date of completion of the gatehouse, not the commissioning of the fort....
  
  
• Fort Leonardo
  Fort Leonardo
  Fort Leonardo also known as Fort St Leonardo, Fort San Leonardo and Fort San Anard is a fortification on the island of Malta...
  
  
• 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 Creek...
  
  
• Fort Mellieħa
• Fort Ricasoli
  Fort Ricasoli
  Fort Ricasoli is a large fortification on the island of Malta. The fort was built by the Knights of Malta between 1670 and 1693.-General:It occupies the promontory known as Gallows Point that forms the eastern arm of Grand Harbour, and the north shore of Rinella Creek. Together with Fort St...
  
  
• Fort Rinella
  Fort Rinella
  Fort Rinella is a Victorian fortification on the island of Malta. It is also referred to as the Rinella Battery in some maps and publications.-History:...
  
  
• 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 the Knights of Malta 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-Silġ
  Fort Tas-Silg
  Fort Tas-Silġ is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands on high ground at the shoreward end of Delimara Point, above Il-Ħofra-z-Zgħira. It is a Polygonal fort and was built by the British. Its primary function was as a fire control point controlling the massed guns of Fort Delimara on...
  
  
• Għajn Tuffieħa Tower
• Għallis Tower
• Madliena Tower
  Madliena tower
  Madliena Tower is a fortification on the island of Malta built by the Knights of Malta. 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. In 1940 the British Military requisitioned the tower and used it as a Regional Headquarters. In support...
  
  
• 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. It is also known locally as Fra Ben Tower. To the west it commands the entrance to St. Paul's Bay, to the east Salina Bay along with Għallis Tower...
  
  
• 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.It was built by the Knights of Malta between 1610 and 1611 and is one of a series of Wignacourt towers....
  
  
• 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 the Knights of Malta. It is a small watchtower that stands on Qrejten Point on the north shore of Malta. St. Mark's Tower has sight of Għallis Tower to the west, and Madliena tower to the east...
  
  
• 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 of Malta in 1614 during the reign of Grand Master Fra Alof de Wignacourt, and is one of the set of Wignacourt towers.It is a...
  
  
• Wignacourt Tower
  Wignacourt towers
  The Wignacourt towers are a series of fortifications on the island of Malta built by the Knights of Malta.The initial towers of this type were built under the auspices of Grand Master Fra Aloph de Wignacourt...
  
  

The Netherlands

• Fort Nassau
  Fort Nassau
  The name Fort Nassau was used by the Dutch in the 17th century for several fortifications, mostly trading stations, named for the House of Orange-Nassau...
  
  
• Fort Bourtange
  Bourtange (fort)
  Fort Bourtange is a star fort located in the village of Bourtange, Groningen, Netherlands. It was built in 1593 under the orders of William the I of Orange...
  
  

Forts on the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie

Dutch Water Line

The Dutch Water Line was a series of water based defences conceived by Maurice of Nassau in the early 17th century, and realised by his half brother Frederick Henry...

• 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

• Pirpiai Fort
• Fort of Qilla Saifullah District
• Altit Fort
  Altit Fort
  Altit Fort is an ancient fort above Karimabad 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. But Sikhs won the war....
  
  , Peshawar
  Peshawar
  Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
  
  
• Mirgarh fort, Cholistan
• Muzaffarabad
  Muzaffarabad
  Muzaffarabad is the capital of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, Pakistan. It is located in Muzaffarabad District on the banks of the Jhelum and Neelum 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 is a hill station in Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan. The station lies on the Quetta Road 85 km from the city of Dera Ghazi Khan in the Sulaiman Mountains. Its elevation is 1800 meters above sea level and it attracts many people for short stays during the hot summer...
  
  
• Dhakki fort, Gujrat
  Gujrat
  Gujrat is a city in Pakistan. It is the capital of Gujrat District and the Gujrat Tehsil subdivision in the Punjab Province. People living in Gujrat refer to themselves as Gujratis, which sometimes leads to confusion with people from the Indian state of Gujarat which adjoins Pakistan...
  
  
• Burj Hari Singh
• Fort of Gujar Singh, Lahore
  Lahore
  Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...
  
  
• Giri Fort, Taxila
• Marotfort, Bahawalpur
• Malot Fort, Chakwal
• Nandana Fort, Chakwal
• Tulaja Fort, Kathwai(Soon Valley), Khushab

Philippines

• Corregidor
  Corregidor
  Corregidor Island, locally called Isla ng Corregidor, is a lofty island located at the entrance of Manila Bay in southwestern part of Luzon Island in the Philippines. Due to this location, Corregidor was fortified with several coastal artillery and ammunition magazines to defend the entrance of...
  
   Island
• Cuyo Fort, Cuyo Island, Palawan
• Fort Bonifacio
  Fort Bonifacio
  Fort Bonifacio is a highly urbanized district in Taguig City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The district is named after the main Philippine Army camp in Metro Manila, Fort Andres Bonifacio, which in turn was named after the famous Philippine revolutionary hero Andres Bonifacio...
  
  , Taguig City
• Fort Del Pilar, Baguio City
• 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. It was occupied by the Japanese in World War II, and was recaptured by the U.S...
  
  
• Fort Magsaysay
• Fort Malate
• Fort Pilar
  Fort Pilar
  Fort Pilar is a 17th century military defense fortress built by the Spanish colonial government in Zamboanga City on Mindanao Island in the Republic of the Philippines...
  
  
• 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 Spanish conquistador, Miguel López de Legazpi and the Spanish Government in Cebu...
  
  
• Fort Santa Isabel, Taytay, Palawan
• Fort Santiago
  Fort Santiago
  Fort Santiago is a defense fortress built for Spanish conquistador, Miguel López de Legazpi. The fort is part of the structures of the walled city of Intramuros, in Manila, Philippines. José Rizal, the Philippines' national hero, was imprisoned in the fort before his execution in 1896...
  
  , Intramuros, Manila
• Fort Sto. Domingo, Sta. Rosa, Laguna

Poland

• Wisloujscie stronghold in Gdansk
  Gdansk
  Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
  
  
• Kłodzko Fortress
• Kraków Fortress
  Kraków fortress
  Kraków fortress refers in the narrow sense to the 19th century Austro-Hungarian fortifications, and in the larger sense - to the interconnected fortifications in Kraków, Poland, including 18th century Kościuszko Insurrection forftifications, and the medieval Wawel castle and city...
  
  
• Międzyrzecz Fortification Region
• Modlin Fortress
  Modlin Fortress
  Modlin Fortress is one of the biggest 19th century fortresses in Poland. It is located the town of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki in district Modlin on the Narew river, some 50 kilometres north of Warsaw...
  
  
• Osowiec
  Osowiec Fortress
  Osowiec Fortress - a 19th century fortress located in north-eastern Poland, originally built by the Russian Empire. The Russian name is Крепость Осовец i.e. Krepost Osovets. In English sources it is variously given as Osowiec , Osovets, Ossovetz, Osovetz and Ossovets...
  
  
• Poznań Fortress
  Poznań Fortress
  Poznań Fortress, known in German as Festung Posen was a set of fortifications in the city of Poznań in western Poland, built under Prussian rule in the 19th and early 20th centuries...
  
  
• Toruń Fortress
  Torun Fortress
  Toruń Fortress , built from 1872–1894 by the Kingdom of Prussia and located in Toruń , is one of the largest fortresses in Central and Eastern Europe. The fortress complex – a chain of forts surrounding the city, as well as numerous smaller fortifications supplementing it – was intended to defend...
  
  
• Warsaw Fortress
  Warsaw Fortress
  Warsaw Fortress was the 19th century Russian fortress in Warsaw, Poland. Originally it was of the 19th century fortress of Russian Empire, one of the western Russian fortresses - the main and oldest part is known as Warsaw Citadel....
  
  

Russia

• Alexandrov Kremlin
  Alexandrov Kremlin
  The tsar’s residence in the Alexandrovskaya village is an old Russian fortress which served as the actual capital of the oprichnina in the Moscow state from 1564 until 1581...
  
  
• Astrakhan Kremlin
  Astrakhan Kremlin
  Astrakhan Kremlin is a fortress in Astrakhan, Russia. Located on river island, on the most high hill, washed by Volga, Kutum, Tsarev and narrow anabranch Cossack’s....
  
  
• Gdov Kremlin
  Gdov Kremlin
  The Gdov Kremlin is located on a bank of the Gdovka River, overlooking the Russian town of Gdov.- Origin :Gdov was established as an outpost of the Pskov Republic. It occupied a strategically important position, being close to Lake Peipus, separating Livonia and Rus. Located on an important road...
  
  
• Ivangorod fortress
  Ivangorod fortress
  Ivangorod Fortress is a Russian medieval castle established by Ivan III in 1492 and since then grown into the town of Ivangorod....
  
  
• Kazan Kremlin
  Kazan Kremlin
  The Kazan Kremlin is the chief historic citadel of Tatarstan, situated in the city of Kazan. It was built on behest of Ivan the Terrible on the ruins of the former castle of Kazan khans...
  
  
• Kolomna Kremlin
  Kolomna Kremlin
  Kolomna Kremlin is a very large fortress in Kolomna, Russia. The stone Kolomna Kremlin was built from 1525—1531 under the Russian Tsar Vasily III. Before its reconstruction in 1531, the Kolomna Kremlin was made of wood...
  
  
• Kronstadt
• Moscow Kremlin
  Moscow Kremlin
  The Moscow Kremlin , sometimes 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...
  
  
• Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
  Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
  Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin is a fortress in Nizhny Novgorod, the historic city center.- History :The first attempt to replace the wooden fort on the stone Kremlin refers to 1374, but construction limited to only one tower, known as the Tower of Dmitrov...
  
  
• Novgorod Kremlin
  Novgorod Kremlin
  Novgorod Kremlin stands on the left bank of the Volkhov River about two miles north of where it empties out of Lake Ilmen.-History:...
  
  
• Peter and Paul Fortress
  Peter and Paul Fortress
  The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706-1740.-History:...
  
  , Saint Petersburg
  Saint Petersburg
  Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
  
  
• Por Bajin, Tuva Republic
• Ryazan Kremlin
• Tobolsk Kremlin
  Tobolsk Kremlin
  The Tobolsk Kremlin is the sole stone Kremlin in Siberia. It is located in Tobolsk, Tyumen Oblast, Russia.- History :Tobolsk was founded in 1587. Moscow encouraged the construction of stone buildings there. In 1683-1686, masons sent from Moscow and Veliky Ustyug built the stone St....
  
  
• Tula Kremlin
  Tula Kremlin
  Tula Kremlin is a fortress in Tula, Russia. Monument of the 16th century.There are 2 Cathedrals inside the Kremlin:*Assumption Cathedral *Epiphany Cathedral - History :...
  
  

Serbia

• Belgrade Fortress
  Kalemegdan
  Belgrade Fortress , represent old citadel and Kalemegdan Park on the confluence of the River Sava and Danube, in an urban area of modern Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad...
  
  
• Golubac Fortress
  Golubac fortress
  Golubac Fortress was a medieval fortified town on the right side of the Danube River, 4 kilometers downstream from the modern-day town of Golubac, Serbia. The fortress, which was most likely built during the 14th century, is split into three compounds which were built in stages...
  
  
• Maglič Fortress
  Maglic
  Maglič is a medieval fortress in Ibar 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. The fortress protected the only caravan road that connected the Morava Valley and Kosovo polje...
  
  
• Kruševac Fortress
  Kruševac Fortress
  Kruševac Fortress or City of Prince Lazar was a medieval fortified town in Kruševac, Serbia, former capital of Prince Lazar. Within the city there is the court church so called Lazarica...
  
  
• Petrovaradin Fortress
  Petrovaradin fortress
  Petrovaradin Fortress is a fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia. It is located in the province of Vojvodina, on the right bank of the Danube river. The cornerstone of the present-day southern part of the fortress was laid on October 18, 1692, by Charles Eugène de Croÿ...
  
  
• Smederevo Fortress
  Smederevo Fortress
  Smederevo Fortress , in Smederevo, Serbia, was a medieval fortified city and temporary capital of Serbia. It was built by Despot Đurađ Branković of 1427 to 1430, during the era of the Serbian Despotate. Later that century it was further fortified by the Turks...
  
  
• Stari Ras
• Stari Grad
  Stari Grad, Užice
  Stari Grad ; is the remains of a fortress near the town of Užice, in central Serbia. It is an example of typical medieval Serbian architecture. Historians believe it was built between the 12th and 13th centuries to control movement along nearby roads, and the town of Užice...
  
  

Singapore

• Fort Canning
  Fort Canning
  Fort 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
  Fort Pasir Panjang or Labrador Battery is located within the lush Labrador Park at the southern tip of Singapore island. It was one of the 11 coastal artillery forts built by the British in the 19th century to defend the western passageway into Keppel Harbour against piracy and foreign naval powers...
  
  
• Fort Palmer
• Fort Serapong
• Fort Siloso
  Fort Siloso
  Fort 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
  Fort Tanjong Katong, which stood from 1879 to 1901, was one of the oldest military forts built by the former British colonial government of Singapore. The fort gave its name to today's Fort Road, and it used to stand on the grounds of the present Katong Park...
  
  
• Fort Teregah

Sri Lanka

• Fort (Colombo)
• Galle fort
  Galle Fort
  Galle Fort, in the Bay of Galle on the south east coast of Sri Lanka, was built first in 1588 by the Portuguese, then extensively fortified by the Dutch during the 17th century from 1649 onwards...
  
  
• Fort Fredrick

South Africa

• Fort Amiel
  Fort Amiel Museum
  Fort Amiel Museum is in Newcastle KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Fort Amiel was constructed in 1876 by Major Charles Frederick Amiel and soldiers of the 80th Staffordshire Volunteers...
  
  , KwaZulu-Natal
  KwaZulu-Natal
  KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....
  
  
• Fort Beaufort
  Fort Beaufort
  Fort Beaufort is a town in the Amatole District of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, and has a population of 78,300. The town was established in 1837 and became a municipality in 1883. The town lies at the confluence of the Kat and Brak rivers between the Keiskamma and Great Fish rivers...
  
  , Eastern Cape
  Eastern Cape
  The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...
  
  
• Fort Brown, Eastern Cape
  Eastern Cape
  The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...
  
  
• Fort Cox
  Fort Cox, Eastern Cape
  Fort Cox in the Eastern Cape, South Africa was a frontier fort in the Amatola Mountains on a loop of the Keiskamma River. Dating back to 1835, it was named after Major William Cox of the 75th Regiment and accommodated a garrison of six Royal Artillery, one company of British Infantry and 160...
  
  , Eastern Cape
  Eastern Cape
  The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...
  
  
• Fort de Goede Hoop
  Fort de Goede Hoop
  The Fort de Goede Hoop was the first military building to be erected in what is now Cape Town. It was built in 1652, and was in use until 1674 when it was superseded by the Castle of Good Hope....
  
  , Western Cape
  Western Cape
  The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...
  
  
• Fort Durnford, KwaZulu-Natal
  KwaZulu-Natal
  KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....
  
  
• Fort Frederick, Eastern Cape
  Eastern Cape
  The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...
  
  
• Fort Merensky, Mpumalanga
  Mpumalanga
  Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...
  
  
• Fort Napier, KwaZulu-Natal
  KwaZulu-Natal
  KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....
  
  
• Fort Nongqai, KwaZulu-Natal
  KwaZulu-Natal
  KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....
  
  
• Johannesburg Fort, Gauteng
  Gauteng
  Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...
  
  
• Fort Klapperkop
  Pretoria Forts
  The Pretoria Forts consisted mainly of four forts built by the government of the South African Republic just before the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War around Pretoria....
  
  , Gauteng
  Gauteng
  Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...
  
  
• Fort Schanskop
  Pretoria Forts
  The Pretoria Forts consisted mainly of four forts built by the government of the South African Republic just before the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War around Pretoria....
  
  , Gauteng
  Gauteng
  Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...
  
  
• Queen's Fort, Free State
  Free State
  The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...
  
  
• Fort Selwyn, Eastern Cape
  Eastern Cape
  The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...
  
  
• Fort Wynyard, Western Cape
  Western Cape
  The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...
  
  
• Fort Wonderboompoort
  Pretoria Forts
  The Pretoria Forts consisted mainly of four forts built by the government of the South African Republic just before the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War around Pretoria....
  
  , Gauteng
  Gauteng
  Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...
  
  
• Redoubt Duijnhoop, Western Cape
  Western Cape
  The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...
  
  

South Korea

• Namhansanseong Fortress 1621
• Hwaseong Fortress
  Hwaseong Fortress
  Hwaseong , the wall surrounding the centre of Suwon, the provincial capital of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, was built in the late 18th century by King Jeongjo 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...
  
   in Suwon
  Suwon
  Suwon is the provincial capital of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. A major city of over a million inhabitants, Suwon lies approximately south of Seoul. It is traditionally known as "The City of Filial Piety"....
  
   1796
• Haengju Mountain Fortress 1592
• Hangpadu-ri Fortress 1273?
• Suinsangseong Fortress

Ávila

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

Badajoz

Badajoz

Badajoz is the capital of the Province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain, situated close to the Portuguese border, on the left bank of the river Guadiana, and the Madrid–Lisbon railway. The population in 2007 was 145,257....

• 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 Portuguese frontier. The old town is surrounded by a Moorish wall with six gates. The newer portion is...
  
  
• Fort Codosera
• Fort Duques de Feria
• Fort Luna

Burgos

Burgos

Burgos is a city of northern Spain, historic capital of Castile. It is situated at the edge of the central plateau, with about 178,966 inhabitants in the city proper and another 20,000 in its suburbs. It is the capital of the province of Burgos, in the autonomous community of Castile and León...

• Fort de las Torres
• Fort El cid
  El Cid
  Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar , known as El Cid Campeador , was a Castilian nobleman, military leader, and diplomat...
  
  
• Fort Cartagena
  Cartagena, Spain
  Cartagena is a Spanish city and a major naval station located in the Region of Murcia, by the Mediterranean coast, south-eastern Spain. As of January 2011, it has a population of 218,210 inhabitants being the Region’s second largest municipality and the country’s 6th non-Province capital...
  
  

Cáceres

Cáceres, Spain

Cáceres is the capital of the same name province, in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. , its population was 91,131 inhabitants. The municipio has a land area of 1,750.33 km², and is the largest in geographical extension in Spain....

• Fort Arquijuelas de Abajo
• Fort Arguijuelas de Arriba
• Fort Coria
  Coria, Cáceres
  Coria is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, with some 12,900 inhabitants as of 2009.-History:Coria was taken twice during the Reconquista, firstly after 1085. It was lost to the Almoravids just after 1109 and unsuccessfully besieged in 1138...
  
  
• Fort Las Seguras
• Fort Trujillo

Cádiz

Cádiz

Cadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the homonymous province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia....

• Fort Guzmán el Bueno
• Fort San Sebastián
  San Sebastián
  Donostia-San Sebastián is a city and municipality located in the north of Spain, in the coast of the Bay of Biscay and 20 km away from the French border. The city is the capital of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. The municipality’s population is 186,122 , and its...
  
  
• Fort Santa Catalina

Córdoba

Córdoba, Spain

-History:The first trace of human presence in the area are remains of a Neanderthal Man, dating to c. 32,000 BC. In the 8th century BC, during the ancient Tartessos period, a pre-urban settlement existed. The population gradually learned copper and silver metallurgy...

• Fort Almodóvar del Río
• Fort Atienza
• Fort Molina de Aragón
  Molina de Aragón
  Molina de Aragón is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2009 census , the municipality has a population of 3,671 inhabitants...
  
  
• Fort Santiuste
• Fort Siguenza
• Fort Torija

Girona

Girona

Girona is a city in the northeast of Catalonia, Spain at the confluence of the rivers Ter, Onyar, Galligants and Güell, with an official population of 96,236 in January 2009. It is the capital of the province of the same name and of the comarca of the Gironès...

• Fort Sant Julià de Ramis
• Fort Sant Ferran (Figueres
  Figueres
  Figueres is the capital of the comarca of Alt Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.The town is the birthplace of artist Salvador Dalí, and houses the Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dalí, a large museum designed by Dalí himself which attracts many visitors...
  
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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 province of Huelva in the autonomous region of Andalusia. It is located along the Gulf of Cadiz coast, at the confluence of the Odiel and Tinto rivers. According to the 2010 census, the city has a population of 149,410 inhabitants. The...

• Fort Cartaya
  Cartaya
  Cartaya is a spanish locality and municipality in the province of Huelva . In 2010 had 18,415 inhabitants. Its surface area is 226.4 km² and has a density of 81.34 people per km²....
  
  
• Fort Niebla
• 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.-External links:* - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía*...
  
  

Huesca

Huesca

Huesca is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the comarca of Hoya de Huesca....

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

Jaén

Jaén, Spain

Jaén is a city in south-central Spain, the name is derived from the Arabic word Jayyan, . It is the capital of the province of Jaén. It is located in the autonomous community of Andalusia....

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

Menorca

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

Palencia

Palencia

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

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

Segovia

Segovia

Segovia is a city in Spain, the capital of Segovia Province in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is situated north of Madrid, 30 minutes by high speed train. The municipality counts some 55,500 inhabitants.-Etymology:...

• Fort Segovia
  Segovia
  Segovia is a city in Spain, the capital of Segovia Province in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is situated north of Madrid, 30 minutes by high speed train. The municipality counts some 55,500 inhabitants.-Etymology:...
  
  
• 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 province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León. , the municipality has a population of c. 39,500 inhabitants, 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 province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 1,099 inhabitants.-External links:* ** *...
  
  
• Fort Gormaz
• Fort Monteagudo de las Vicarías
• Fort Osma
• Fort Ucero

Toledo

Toledo, Spain

Toledo's Alcázar became renowned in the 19th and 20th centuries as a military academy. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 its garrison was famously besieged by Republican forces.-Economy:...

• Fort Toledo
  Toledo, Spain
  Toledo's Alcázar became renowned in the 19th and 20th centuries as a military academy. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 its garrison was famously besieged by Republican forces.-Economy:...
  
  
• Fort Fort Carlos V
• Fort Guadamur
• Fort Montalbán
• Fort Sabiote

Valladolid

Valladolid

Valladolid is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, situated at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers, and located within three wine-making regions: Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Cigales...

• Fort Encinas de Esgueva
  Encinas de Esgueva
  Encinas de Esgueva is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, 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 Castle
  Peñafiel Castle is located in Valladolid Province, Spain.- See also :* Peñafiel, Spain...
  
  
• 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 and León...
  
  
• Fort Villalba de los Alcores
  Villalba de los Alcores
  Villalba de los Alcores is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 537 inhabitants....
  
  
• Fort Villafuerte de Esgueva

Sweden

• Bodens fästning
  Boden Fortress
  Boden Fortress is a modern fortress consisting of several major and minor forts and fortifications surrounding the city of Boden, Norrbotten, in northern Sweden. The fortress was originally intended to stop or delay attacks from the east or coastal assaults, which at the time of construction meant...
  
  
• 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 Carl X of Sweden following the Treaty of Roskilde, 1658 to protect the newly acquired province of Bohuslän from hostile attacks....
  
  
• Bohus Fästning
  Bohus Fortress
  Bohus Fortress lies along the old Norwegian - Swedish border in Kungälv, Bohuslän, Sweden, north east from Hisingen where the Göta river splits into two branches...
  
  
• Karlsborg Fortress
  Karlsborg Fortress
  Karlsborg Fortress is situated on the Vannäs peninsula in Karlsborg by lake Vättern, the province of Västergötland, Sweden. Construction on the fortress began 1819 to realize the so-called central defense idea adopted by the Swedish military after the Finnish and Napoleonic Wars...
  
  

Taiwan (Republic of China

Republic of China

The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

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• Fort Provintia
  Fort Provintia
  Chihkan Tower , formerly Fort Provintia in West Central District, Tainan City was built in 1653 by the Dutch during their colonization of Taiwan. The fort was surrendered to Koxinga. Since 1945 the site has been known as 'Red-topped Tower'...
  
  
• Fort Santo Domingo
  Fort Santo Domingo
  Fuerte Santo Domingo or Fort San Domingo was originally a wooden fort built by the Spanish in 1629 at Tamsui on the northwestern coast of Taiwan.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Zeelandia
  Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)
  Fort Zeelandia was a fortress built over ten years from 1624–1634 by the Dutch Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, in the town of Anping on the island of Formosa, present day Taiwan, during their 38-year 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.In the 1880s Imperial China and France fought a war over today's Vietnam...
  
  

Turkey

• Rumelihisarı
  Rumelihisari
  Rumelihisarı is a fortress located in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul, Turkey, on a hill at the European side of the Bosporus. It gives the name of the quarter around it. It was built by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II between 1451 and 1452, before he conquered Constantinople...
  
  
• Anadoluhisarı
  Anadoluhisari
  Anadoluhisarı 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
  The Dubno Castle was founded in 1492 by Prince Konstantin Ostrogski on a promontory overlooking the Ikva River not far from the ancient Ruthenian fort of Dubno, Volhynia....
  
  
• Kiev fortress
  Kiev fortress
  Kiev fortress , also known as the Pechersk Fortress, is a generic name for the 19th century fortification buildings situated in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, that once belonged to a system of western Russian fortresses. These structures were built in the Pechersk and neighbourhoods by the Russian army...
  
  
• Kodak Fortress
  Kodak fortress
  Kodak fortress was a fort built in 1635 by the order of Polish king Władysław IV Vasa and the Sejm over the Dnieper River, near what was to become the town of Stari Kodaky...
  
  
• Letychiv Fortress
  Letychiv Fortress
  Letychiv Fortress is a complex of limestone walls built in 1598 by Jan Potocki to defend Podolia from the regular raids of the Crimean Tatars. The north-western tower, the eastern wall and parts of the southern wall still stand in the town of Letychiv, Ukraine. The most prominent feature on the...
  
  
• Lutsk Castle
• Lysa Hora
  Lysa Hora
  Lysa Hora ; literally "Barren Mount", Featureless Mount, or Bald Mount) is a large woody hill in the Ukrainian capital Kiev , near the confluence of the Dnipro and Lybid' rivers...
  
  
• 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 Świętej 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 12th century. For almost three centuries, the castle it was a residence of the Ostrogski princely family which gave Ukraine famous military leaders,...
  
  
• Sevastopol
  Sevastopol
  Sevastopol is a city on rights of administrative division of Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 . Sevastopol is the second largest port in Ukraine, after the Port of Odessa....
  
  
• Zaporizhian Sich
  Zaporizhian Sich
  Zaporizhian Sich was socio-political, grassroot, military organization of Ukrainian cossacks placed beyond Dnieper rapids. Sich existed between the 16th and 18th centuries in the region around the today's Kakhovka Reservoir...
  
  

United Kingdom

See also the list of castles, as many early forts were called castles, and many castle sites were reused for later fortifications.
Also Palmerstone Forts lists the many British fortifications built in the 1860s.

SE England

• Dymchurch Redoubt
  Dymchurch Redoubt
  Dymchurch Grand Redoubt is a fortification on the coast of Kent in England, built during the Napoleonic War as part of a large defensive scheme to protect the country from an expected French invasion.-Description:...
  
  
• Eastbourne Redoubt
  Eastbourne Redoubt
  Eastbourne Redoubt is a fort on what is now Royal Parade, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England.-History:The Redoubt was built between 1804 and 1810 to support the associated Martello towers in defending against the threat of an invasion by Napoleon. It has defended the Eastbourne coast for nearly 200...
  
  
• Fort Burgoyne
  Fort Burgoyne
  Fort Burgoyne, originally known as Castle Hill Fort, was built in the 1860s as one of the Palmerston forts around Dover in southeast England. It was built to a polygonal system with detached eastern and western redoubts, to guard the high ground northeast of the strategic port of Dover, just north...
  
  
• Admiralty Pier Turret
  Admiralty Pier Turret
  The Admiralty Pier Turret or Dover Turret, is an enclosed armoured turret built in 1882 on the western breakwater of Dover Harbour in southeast England. It contains 2 Fraser RML 16 inch 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
  Littlehampton Redoubt, usually known as Littlehampton Fort, was built in 1854 to protect the entrance to the River Arun at Littlehampton on the south coast of England, against possible attack by the French under the Emperor Napoleon III. There had been a previous battery on the east bank of the...
  
  
• Newhaven Fort
  Newhaven Fort
  Newhaven Fort was built on the recommendation of the 1859 Royal Commission to defend the growing harbour at Newhaven, on the south coast of England...
  
  
• Saxon Shore Forts
• Shoreham Redoubt
  Shoreham Redoubt
  Shoreham Redoubt stands at the entrance to Shoreham harbour, at the mouth of the River Adur in West Sussex, England. It was planned in the 1850s during a period of alarm about a possible French attack. Construction was completed in June 1857 at a cost of £11,685...
  
  

Thames

• Coalhouse Fort
  Coalhouse Fort
  Coalhouse Fort is a large casemated fort in East Tilbury, near the modern town of Tilbury, in Thurrock, Essex, downstream from Tilbury Fort. It contains a museum of memorabilia from World War I and II.-History of the fort:...
  
  
• Cliffe Fort
• New Tavern Fort
  New Tavern Fort
  New Tavern Fort was built at Gravesend, Kent, England in the 1780s against the threat of invasion from France. It was one of the Palmerston Forts, also known as Royal Commission forts. The fort was extensively rebuilt by General Gordon about 1870. It was regunned in 1904...
  
  
• 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. Part of it is now open to the public....
  
  
• 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. It is of polygonal design and was never originally armed...
  
  
• Fort Bridgewood
• Fort Clarence
  Fort Clarence
  Fort Clarence is a now defunct fortification that was located in Rochester, Kent, England.-History:The fort was built between 1808 and 1812 to prevent invaders gaining access from Maidstone Road to the River Medway. The work was composed of a long brick revetted dry ditch running between a...
  
  
• Fort Darnet
  Fort Darnet
  Fort Darnet, like Fort Hoo was built on the recommendations of the 1859 Royal Commission 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, 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 1859 Royal Commission on an island covering the inner navigable channel of the River Medway, Kent.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Pitt
  Fort Pitt, Kent
  Fort Pitt was a fort built between 1805 and 1819 on the high ground of the boundary between Chatham and Rochester, Kent. It did not last long, becoming a hospital for invalid soldiers in 1828, with an asylum added in 1849...
  
  
• Garrison Point Fort
  Garrison Point Fort
  Garrison Point Fort in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent was built on the recommendations of the Royal Commission report in the 1860s opposite Grain Fort to control the entrance to the Medway, Kent. It originally contained 36 Rifled Muzzle Loaders with calibres from 9in to 12in...
  
  
• Grain Fort
  Grain Fort
  Grain Fort was built in the 1860s on the eastern end of the Hoo peninsulato control the entrance to the Medway, Kent, England.All surface structures were demolished in the 1960s, so all that remains are underground passages....
  
   & Grain Tower Battery

Solent

• 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. The hill is on the mainland, just to the north of Ports Creek, which separates the mainland from Portsea Island, on which lies the...
  
  

• • Crookhorn Redoubt
  • Fort Fareham
  • Farlington Redoubt
  • Langstone Redoubt
  • Fort Nelson
    Fort Nelson, Portsmouth
    Fort Nelson, in the civil parish of Boarhunt in the English county of Hampshire, is one of five defensive forts built on the summit of Portsdown Hill in the 1860s, overlooking the important naval base of Portsmouth. It is now part of the Royal Armouries, housing their collection of...
    
    
  • 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. Construction was...
    
    
  • Fort Purbrook
  • Fort Wallington
  • Fort Widley

• Gosport
  Gosport
  Gosport is a town, district and borough situated on the south coast of England, within the county of Hampshire. It has approximately 80,000 permanent residents with a further 5,000-10,000 during the summer months...
  
  

• • 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. It is unique in two respects - firstly, it was built over a number of...
    
    
  • Fort Brockhurst
    Fort Brockhurst
    Fort Brockhurst is one of the Palmerston Forts, 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 historic Palmerston fort built at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire to dominate the key anchorage of Spithead. It was erected between 1863 and 1871 as a semi-circular arc with 22 casemates, to be armed with 5 12" guns, 17 10" guns and 5 9" guns. The actual...
    
    
  • Fort Grange
    Fort Grange
    Fort Grange is one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England. After Gomer and Elson forts had been approved in 1852, further consideration led to a decision to fill the gap between them by three more forts, and Grange is the most southerly of the three...
    
    
  • Fort Monckton
  • Fort Rowner
    Fort Rowner
    Fort Rowner is one of the Palmerston Forts, in Gosport, England. It is now an English Heritage property.Built circa 1858 as part of the outer defence line for Gosport along with Fort Brockhurst and Fort Elson to the North East and Fort Grange and Fort Gomer to the South West. The fort was later...
    
    

• Portsmouth
  Portsmouth
  Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly 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. It was sited to protect the Royal Navy Dockyard, by preventing enemy forces from landing in Langstone Harbour and attacking...
    
    
  • Lumps Fort
    Lumps Fort
    Lumps Fort is a disused fortification built on Portsea Island as part of the defences for the naval base at Portsmouth.Lumps Fort dates from the 18th century. The earliest reference is in the records of the Board of Ordnance in 1805 which mention "Lumps Fort-three 32-pounder guns".By 1822 the fort...
    
    

• Sea Forts

• • Horse Sand Fort
    Horse Sand Fort
    Horse Sand Fort is one of the larger Royal Commission sea forts in the Solent off Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. It is 240 feet across, built between 1865 and 1880, with two floors and a basement, armour plated all round....
    
    
  • 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. It is 2.2 kilometres off the coast of the Isle of Wight and built between the years 1867 and 1880 to protect Portsmouth. It was built for a cost of £462,500, a considerable sum if adjusted for inflation*...
    
    
  • Spitbank Fort
    Spitbank Fort
    Spitbank Fort or Spitsand Fort or Spit Sand Fort or simply Spit Fort is a sea fort built as a result of the 1859 Royal Commission. 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, 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 two 10-inch 18-ton rifled muzzle loading ...
    
    

• Isle of Wight
  Isle of Wight
  The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called 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 .-History:...
    
    
  • Fort Bembridge
  • Golden Hill Fort
    Golden Hill Fort
    Golden Hill Fort was a defensible barracks built as part of the 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. The Fort is a local landmark which is in a very prominent...
    
    
  • Needles Old Battery
    The Needles
    The Needles is a row of three distinctive stacks of chalk that rise out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, England, close to Alum Bay. The Needles lighthouse stands at the end of the formation...
    
    
  • Fort Victoria
    Fort Victoria (Isle of Wight)
    Fort Victoria was a single tier battery with defensible barracks west of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England, built in the 1850s, later used as a submarine mining centre and training area for military purposes....
    
    

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.-National Nature Reserve:Berry Head to Sharkham Point is a haven for several nationally rare and threatened species which are dependent upon the thin limestone soils, mild climate and exposed...
  
  

• 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. It extends from the lower estuary of the River Severn to the North Atlantic Ocean...
  
  
  • 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, England.The site has a long history, because of its prominent position...
    
    

• Dartmouth
  Dartmouth, Devon
  Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. 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 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...
    
    
  • Gallants Bower

• Plymouth
  Plymouth
  Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...
  
  

• • Royal Citadel
  • Agaton Fort
  • Bowden Fort
  • Breakwater Fort
  • Cawsand Fort
  • Crownhill Fort
    Crownhill Fort
    Crownhill Fort is a Royal Commission fort built in the 1860s in Crownhill as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth. Restored by the Landmark Trust, it is now open to the public.-History of the fort:...
    
    
  • Egg Buckland Keep
  • Ernesettle Fort
  • Fort Austin
  • Fort Bovisand
    Fort Bovisand
    thumb|right|Fort Bovisand from the southFort 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.-Founding:...
    
    
  • Polhawn Fort
  • Fort Scraesdon
  • Staddon Fort
  • Fort Tregantle
    Fort Tregantle
    Tregantle Fort in south east Cornwall is one of several forts surrounding 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.-History:...
    
    
  • 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, forming the southernmost point of the county of Dorset, England. A tombolo over which runs the A354 road connects it to Chesil Beach and the mainland. Portland and...
  
  

• • 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 breakwaters, and was extended during the 1860s as a result of the Royal Commission, ending up with 8 RML guns with calibres up to 12". It is now...
    
    
  • East Wear Battery
    East Wear Battery
    East Wear Battery was 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 to guard the new Portland harbour and Royal Navy institutions on the island. Five open batteries were built...
    
    
  • 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, along to the...
  
  
  • 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. The fort was built in 1872 to protect Portland's harbour, which was then becoming an important...
    
    

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 Redoubt, armed with 3 x 24 pdr cannon. The battery was allowed to decay, and after 1990 excavations is marked out on the ground in front of the Anchor pub, Stour Road...
  
  
• 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. This site was abandoned within ten years. After the death of Henry VIII the site was rearmed...
  
  
• 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 opens it to the public.- Construction :...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Shotley Battery
  Shotley Battery
  Shotley Battery was built in 1865 on the Shotley Peninsula to guard the port of Felixstowe, within HMS Ganges Naval Training school, on the same site as an existing Martello Tower. Originally with 14 64 pound guns, it has suffered much damage since HMS Ganges closed, and became a police training...
  
  

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 Hull in northern England.Batteries have been built at Paull by Henry VIII, Charles I during the Civil War during the siege of Hull and the Napoleonic Wars...
  
  
• The Tyne Turrets
  Tyne Turrets
  The Tyne Turrets were two 12-inch Mk VIII guns from the battleship HMS Illustrious, installed in Roberts Battery at Hartley, near Seaton Sluice north of the Tyne, and Kitchener Battery in Marsden near Lizard Point south of the river. The batteries were planned in World War I but only commissioned...
  
  

Wales

• Milford Haven
  Milford Haven
  Milford Haven is a town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is situated on the north side of the Milford Haven Waterway, a natural harbour used as a port since the Middle Ages. The town was founded in 1790 on the north side of the Waterway, from which it takes its name...
  
  

• • 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...
    
    
  • Fort Hubberstone
    Fort Hubberstone
    Fort Hubberstone, on the west side of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, is a Grade II* Listed Building which belongs to a series of forts built as part of the inner line of defence of the Haven following the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom...
    
    
  • Popton Fort
    Popton Fort
    Popton Fort, a Grade II* Listed Building, 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
    Scoveston Fort
    Scoveston Fort, on the northern shore of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, is a Grade II Listed Building which belongs to a series of forts built as part of the inner line of defence of the Haven following the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom...
    
    
  • Stack Rock Fort
    Stack Rock Fort
    Stack Rock Fort is a Royal Commission fort built on a small island in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. A Grade II* Listed Building, it was built between 1859 and 1871 with 16 10" and 7 9" RMLs, changed to 4 12 pdr QF guns in 1902. Disarmed in 1929, it was placed on the market in 2005 for £150,000,...
    
    
  • Thorn Island Fort
    Thorn Island
    Thorn Island is in the Community of Angle 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. The Angle lifeboat received silver medals in 1878 rescuing the crew of the Loch Shiel on rocks near the island which carried...
    
    
• St Catherine's Fort
  St Catherine's Island
  St Catherine's Island is a small tidal island linked to Tenby in Pembrokeshire, Wales, by a beach at low tide. The island is home to a Palmerston fort, constructed to protect Pembroke Dock and completed in 1870. In 1907, the island was sold privately for 500 pounds. St...
  
  

• Fort Belan
  Fort Belan
  Fort Belan is a coastal fortress in North Wales. It is located opposite Abermenai Point, at the south-western end of the Menai Strait, on the coast of Gwynedd, in the parish of Llanwnda...
  
  

Scotland

• Fort Charlotte, Shetland
• Fort George, Scotland

Alabama

• Fort Gaines, historic fort open to the public
• Fort Louis de la Mobile
• Fort McClellan
  Fort McClellan
  Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, was a United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II, it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million troops...
  
  
• Fort Morgan, historic fort open to the public
• Fort Rucker
  Fort Rucker
  Fort Rucker is a U.S. Army post located mostly in Dale County, Alabama, United States. It was named for a Civil War officer, Confederate General Edmund Rucker. The post is the primary flight training base for Army Aviation and is home to the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence and...
  
  
• Fort Stoddert
  Fort Stoddert
  Fort Stoddert was a stockade fort in the Mississippi Territory, in what is today Alabama. It was located on a bluff of the Mobile River, near modern Mount Vernon, close to the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers. It served as the western terminus of the Federal Road which ran through...
  
  

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...
  
  
• Fort Richardson
• Fort Wainwright
  Fort Wainwright
  Fort Wainwright is a United States Army post adjacent to Fairbanks in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is part of the Fairbanks, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Yukon

Arizona

• Fort Apache
  Fort Apache Indian Reservation
  The Fort Apache Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in Arizona, United States, encompassing parts of Navajo, Gila, and Apache counties. It is home to the federally recognized White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, a Western Apache tribe. It has a land area of 2,627.608...
  
  
• 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 Bowie was established in 1862 after a series of engagements between the U.S. Military and the Chiricahua Apaches. The most violent of which was the...
  
  
• Fort Buchanan
  Fort Buchanan, Arizona
  Fort Buchanan, was a United States Army post founded in 1856 three 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. It was officially abandoned in 1861 but during the...
  
  
• Fort Crittenden
  Fort Crittenden
  Fort Crittenden, originally Camp Crittenden, was a United States Army post built in 1867 three miles from Sonoita, Arizona along Sonoita Creek. It was established for campaigning against the Apache and to protect American pioneers in the area.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Defiance
  Fort Defiance, Arizona
  Fort Defiance is a census-designated place in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The population was 4,061 at the 2000 census.- History :...
  
  
• Fort Grant
  Fort Grant, Arizona
  Fort Grant, located in the U.S. state of Arizona, is a state prison and a former United States Army fortification. Fort Grant began its life as an Old West outpost in Arizona Territory, built in 1860 at Aravaipa Canyon originally as Camp Grant.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Huachuca
  Fort Huachuca
  Fort Huachuca is a United States Army installation under the command of the United States Army Installation Management Command. It is located in Cochise County, in southeast Arizona, about north of the border with Mexico. Beginning in 1913, for 20 years the fort was the base for the "Buffalo...
  
  
• Lee's Fort
• Fort Lowell
  Fort Lowell
  Fort Lowell was a United States Army post active from 1873 to 1891 on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona. Fort Lowell was the successor to Camp Lowell, an earlier Army installation. The Army chose a location just south of the confluence of the Tanque Verde and Pantano creeks, at the point where they...
  
  
• Fort McDonald
• Fort McDowell
  Fort McDowell, Arizona
  Fort McDowell is an unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. Fort McDowell is 23 miles northeast of Phoenix, Arizona...
  
  
• Fort Milligan
• Fort Misery
• Fort Mojave
  Fort Mojave
  Fort Mohave was originally named Camp Colorado when it was established on April 19, 1859 by Lieutenant Colonel William Hoffman during the Mohave War...
  
  
• 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 Apache Wars-era fort as it appeared in the 1880s...
  
  , historic buildings open to the public
• 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 by Edward Banker Willis 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 is a fort in California that is located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. It was on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 until 1861 and was abandoned May 16, 1883, and transferred to the Department of the Interior. The Fort Yuma Indian School and a...
  
  

California

• Alcatraz Island
  Alcatraz Island
  Alcatraz Island is an island located in the San Francisco Bay, offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. Often referred to as "The Rock" or simply "Traz", the small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison, and a Federal...
  
  , a historic landmark open to the public
• Benicia Arsenal
  Benicia Arsenal
  The Benicia Arsenal 1851-1964, and Benicia Barracks 1852-1866, 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.In 1847 a parcel of land adjoining...
  
  
• Camp Kearny
  Camp Kearny
  Camp Kearny was a U.S. military base in San Diego, California, on the site of the current Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. It operated from 1917 to 1946.-Establishment and early years:...
  
  , now Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
  Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
  Marine Corps Air Station Miramar , formerly Naval Air Station Miramar is a United States Marine Corps installation that is home to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, which is the aviation element of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force...
  
  
• 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 area...
  
  , one historic building open to the public
• Fort Humboldt
  Fort Humboldt State Historic Park
  Fort Humboldt State Historic Park is a California state park located in the southern portion of Eureka, just off U.S. Route 101. The North Coast regional headquarters of the California State Parks is located onsite.-Early years, 1853–1860:...
  
  , now a state historic park
• Fort Hunter Liggett
  Fort Hunter Liggett
  Fort Hunter Liggett , named after General Hunter Liggett in 1941, is a United States Army fort in southern Monterey County, California, about 250 miles north of Los Angeles and south of San Francisco...
  
  
• Fort Irwin
  Fort Irwin Military Reservation
  Fort Irwin & the National Training Center is a major training area for the United States Military and is a census-designated place located in the Mojave Desert in northern San Bernardino County, California. Fort Irwin sits at an elevation of . The 2010 United States census reported Fort Irwin's...
  
  
• Fort MacArthur
  Fort MacArthur
  Fort MacArthur is a former United States Army installation in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California . The fort is named in honor of Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur...
  
  , partially preserved and open to the public
• 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 Ord was one of the most attractive locations of any U.S. Army post, because of its proximity to the beach and California...
  
  
• Fort Point, historic fort open to the public
• Fort Ross, an antique Russian fort, partially restored
• Fort Tejon
  Fort Tejon
  Fort Tejon in 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 Canyon area of Tejon Pass along Interstate 5, the main route through the mountains separating the Central Valley from Los...
  
  , now a state historic park
• Presidio of Monterey
• Presidio of San Diego
  Presidio of San Diego
  El Presidio Reál de San Diego is an historical fort established on May 14, 1769, by Commandant Pedro Fages for Spain. It was the first permanent European settlement on the Pacific Coast of the United States. As the first of the presidios and Spanish missions in California, it was the base of...
  
  , now Presidio Park
  Presidio Park
  Presidio Park is a city historic park in San Diego, California. It is the site where the San Diego Presidio and the San Diego Mission, the first European settlements in what is now the western United States, were founded in 1769...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , now a part of the National Park Service
• Presidio of Santa Barbara
  Presidio of Santa Barbara
  The El Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara, also known as the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, was a military installation in Santa Barbara, California. It was built by Spain in 1782, with the mission of defending the Second Military District in California...
  
  , now a state historic park

Colorado

• Bent's New Fort
  Fort Lyon
  Fort Lyon, first named Fort Wise, was operated on the Colorado eastern plains until 1867. That year a new fort called Fort Lyon, and later Las Animas, Colorado, U.S. Naval Hospital and 5BN117, was built near the present-day town of Las Animas, Colorado. First named after Virginia governor Henry...
  
  
• Bent's Old Fort
  Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
  Bent's Old Fort is an 1833 fort located in Otero County in southeastern Colorado, USA. William and Charles Bent, along with Ceran St. Vrain, built the fort to trade with Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Plains Indians and trappers for buffalo robes...
  
   National Historic Site
• 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, USA, was designed to house two 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 Huerfano
  Fort Huerfano
  Fort Huerfano is a Mexican adobe fort with two circular towers that was located about six miles east of town at the mouth of the Huerfano River.It was built in Colorado around 1845 and was in service until 1847.- External links :* North American Forts...
  
  
• Fort Independence
• Fort Jackson
  Fort Jackson (Colorado)
  Fort Jackson was one of the four fur trading forts that lined the South Platte River area north of present-day metro Denver area. It was built by in the early part of 1837 at a cost of $12,000.00 by Peter A. Sarpy and Henry Fraeb and partially financed by the Western Division of the American Fur...
  
  
• Fort Juana
• Fort Julesburg
• Fort Lancaster
• Fort Leche
• Fort Le Duc
  Fort Le Duc
  Fort Le Duc was a short-lived Mexican trading post that was built in Colorado around 1830 and was in service until 1840. The fort was located very near the town of Wetmore, CO.There are no remains.- External links :* North American Forts...
  
  
• Fort Lewis
  Fort Lewis College
  Fort Lewis College is a public liberal arts college in Durango, Colorado.-History:Military FortThe original site of Fort Lewis College began southwest of its present location back in 1880. Set up originally as a Military Fort for the 22nd Regimental Infantry which occupied the land from...
  
  
• Fort Logan
  Fort Logan National Cemetery
  Fort Logan National Cemetery is a National cemetery in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Fort Logan was named after Union General John A. Logan, commander of US Volunteer forces during the American Civil War...
  
  
• Fort Lookout
• Fort Lupton
• Fort Lyon
  Fort Lyon
  Fort Lyon, first named Fort Wise, was operated on the Colorado eastern plains until 1867. That year a new fort called Fort Lyon, and later Las Animas, Colorado, U.S. Naval Hospital and 5BN117, was built near the present-day town of Las Animas, Colorado. First named after Virginia governor Henry...
  
  
• 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 Saint Vrain was an 1837 fur trading post built by the Bent, St. Vrain Company, and located at the confluence of Saint Vrain Creek and the South Platte River, about 20 miles east of the Rocky Mountains in the unorganized territory of the United States. This area later became part od the State...
  
  
• Fort Sanders
• Fort Sangre de Cristo
• Fort Schofield
• Fort Sedgwick
  Sedgwick, Colorado
  Sedgwick is a statutory town in Sedgwick County, Colorado, United States. The population was 191 at the 2000 census.-History:The town was named for Fort Sedgwick, which was named after John Sedgwick, who was a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Geography:Sedgwick is...
  
  
• Fort Sheridan
• Fort Spaulding
• Fort Uncompahgre
• Fort Vasquez
  Fort Vasquez
  -External links:*...
  
  
• Fort Wardwell
• Fort Weld
• Fort Wicked
• Fort William
• Fort Wise
• Milk Fort
• Peebles Fort
• Robert Fisher's Fort
• Roubideaux's Old Fort
• Sharps Trading Fort
• Spanish Fort

Connecticut

• Fort Griswold
  Fort Griswold
  Fort Griswold is a former American military base 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, also known as Fort Hale Park, Black Rock, is a city park located on the east shore of New Haven Harbor in New Haven, Connecticut. It includes the site of a 1659 fort and a Revolutionary War-era fort. The fort was named after Nathan Hale, Connecticut's official hero. Since 1921,...
  
  , reconstructed historic fort open to the public
• Fort Trumbull
  Fort Trumbull
  Fort Trumbull refers to a fort in New London, Connecticut and to a nearby neighborhood.-Neighborhood:The neighborhood of Fort Trumbull was demolished as part of plan for the economic development of New London. The plan was appealed in a case that reached the US Supreme Court, Kelo v...
  
  , historic fort open to the public

Delaware

• Fort Casimir
  Fort Casimir
  Fort Casimir was a Dutch settlement in 17th century colonial province of New Netherland. It was located on a no-longer existing barrier island at the end of Chestnut Street in what is now New Castle, Delaware...
  
  
• Fort Christina
  Fort Christina
  Fort Christina was the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony...
  
  
• Fort Delaware
  Fort Delaware
  Fort Delaware is a harbor defense facility, designed by Chief Engineer Joseph Gilbert Totten, and located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River. During the American Civil War, the Union used Fort Delaware as a prison for Confederate prisoners of war, political prisoners, federal convicts, and...
  
  , historic fort open to the public
• Fort du Pont
  Fort DuPont State Park
  Fort DuPont State Park is a Delaware state park located in Delaware City, Delaware. The fort itself, named after Rear Admiral Samuel Francis duPont, was used as a military base from the Civil War through World War II, and was part of a three fort defense system, with Fort Delaware and Fort Mott...
  
  
• Fort Miles
  Fort Miles
  Fort Miles was an American military installation located on Cape Henlopen near Lewes, Delaware. Although funds to build the fort were approved in 1934, it was 1941 before the fort was constructed. It was built to defend Delaware Bay and River and to protect domestic shipping from enemy fire within...
  
  , one tower open to public while in renovation

Georgia

• Fort Benning
  Fort Benning
  Fort Benning is a United States Army post located southeast of the city of Columbus in Muscogee and Chattahoochee counties in Georgia and Russell County, Alabama...
  
  
• Fort Gordon
  Fort Gordon
  Fort Gordon, formerly known as Camp Gordon, is a United States Army installation established in 1917. It is the current home of the United States Army Signal Corps and Signal Center and was once the home of "The Provost Marshal General School" . The fort is located in Richmond, Jefferson, McDuffie,...
  
  
• Fort Frederica
• Fort Gillem
  Fort Gillem
  Fort Gillem is a United States Army military base located in Forest Park, Georgia, on the southeast edge of Atlanta. Founded in 1941, it was a satellite installation of nearby Fort McPherson it has closed due to BRAC. The base houses many different supply and support units including the U.S...
  
  
• Fort Hawkins, partial re-creation sometimes open to the public
• Fort James Jackson
  Fort James Jackson
  Fort James Jackson is a restored nineteenth-century fort located one mile east of Savannah, Georgia, on the Savannah River. It hosts the Fort Jackson Maritime Museum....
  
   (aka Old Fort Jackson or Fort Oglethorpe), historic fort open to the public
• Fort King George
  Fort King George
  Fort King George was a fort located in the U.S. state of Georgia. The fort was built in 1721 along the Altamaha River and served as the southernmost outpost of the British Empire in the Americas until 1727. The fort was constructed in what was then considered part of the colony of South Carolina,...
  
  , re-constructed fort, now a state historic park
• Fort McAllister
  Fort McAllister Historic Park
  Fort McAllister Historic Park is a Georgia state park located near Keller and Richmond Hill in South Bryan County, Georgia and on the south bank of the Ogeechee River . The park is home to the best preserved earthwork fortification of the Confederacy...
  
  , state park with preserved earthwork fortification and museum
• Fort McPherson
  Fort McPherson
  Fort McPherson was a U.S. Army military base located in East Point, Georgia, on the southwest edge of the City of Atlanta, Ga. It was the headquarters for the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, Southeast Region; the U.S. Army Forces Command; the U.S. Army Reserve Command; the U.S...
  
  
• Fort Pulaski, historic fort open to the public
• Fort Stewart
  Fort Stewart
  Fort Stewart is a census-designated place and U.S. Army post primarily in Liberty County and Bryan County, but also extending into smaller portions of Evans, Long, and Tattnall Counties in Georgia, USA. The population was 11,205 at the 2000 census...
  
  

Hawaii

• Fort DeRussy
  Fort DeRussy Military Reservation
  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. The former Battery Randolph now houses the U.S...
  
  
• Fort Kamehameha
  Fort Kamehameha
  Fort Kamehameha was a United States Army military base that was the site of several coastal artillery batteries to defend Pearl Harbor starting in 1907 in Honolulu, Hawaii.-History:The eastern areas of the fort were in the district called Moanalua...
  
  
• Fort Ruger
  Fort Ruger
  Fort Ruger is a fort on the island of Oahu that served as the first military reservation in the Territory of Hawaii. Named after Civil War General Thomas H...
  
  
• Russian Fort Elizabeth
  Russian Fort Elizabeth
  Russian Fort Elizabeth is a fort on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. It was the last remaining Russian fort on the Hawaiian islands, built in the early 19th century by the Russian-American Company as the result of an alliance with High Chief Kaumualii to gain influence in Hawaii...
  
  
• Schofield Barracks, a large installation, the home of the complete 25th Infantry Division
• Fort Shafter
  Fort Shafter
  Fort Shafter is in Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu, Hawai‘i, extending up the interfluve between Kalihi and Moanalua valleys, as well as onto the coastal plain at Māpunapuna. Fort Shafter is the headquarters of the United States Army Pacific Command, the MACOM of U.S. Army forces in...
  
  

Idaho

• Fort Boise
  Fort Boise
  Fort Boise refers to two different locations in southwestern Idaho. The first was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post near the Snake River on the Oregon border, dating from the era when Idaho was part of the fur company's Columbia District. After several rebuilds, it was ultimately abandoned in...
  
  
• Camp Connor
  Camp Connor
  Camp Connor was a Union Army outpost established May 23, 1863 by Captain David Black, 3rd Regiment California Volunteer Infantry, by order of Brigadier General Patrick Edward Connor commander of the District of Utah, Department of the Pacific for whom the post was named.Camp Conner was located east...
  
  
• Fort Hall
  Fort Hall
  Fort Hall, sitting athwart the end of the common stretch shared by the three far west emigrant trails was a 19th century outpost in the eastern Oregon Country, which eventually became part of the present-day United States, and is located in southeastern Idaho near Fort Hall, Idaho...
  
  , re-constructed fort (in Pocatello) open to the public
• Fort Lapwai
  Fort Lapwai
  Fort Lapwai , a Federal fort now in the Nez Perce National Historical Park, was originally called Camp Lapwai until 1863. It was located on the left bank of the Lapwai River three miles above where it joined the Clearwater River...
  
  
• Fort Sherman

Illinois

• Fort Armstrong
  Fort Armstrong
  Fort Armstrong , was one of a chain of western frontier defenses which the United States erected after the War of 1812. It was located at the foot of Rock Island, Illinois, in the Mississippi River between present-day Illinois and Iowa. It was five miles from the principal Sac and Fox village on...
  
  
• Fort de Chartres
  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 18th century in the era of French colonial control over...
  
  
• Fort Clark
  Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site
  Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site was once the home to a Mandan and later an Arikara settlement. Over the course of its history it also had two factories...
  
  
• Fort Johnson
  Fort Johnson
  This article is about the War of 1812 fortification:*For the community in New York, see Fort Johnson, New York*For the Revolutionary War British garrison named Fort Johnson see Wilmington, North Carolina...
  
  
• Fort Kaskaskia
• Fort Massac
  Fort Massac
  Fort Massac is a colonial and early National-era fort on the Ohio River in Massac County, Illinois, United States.Legend has it that, as early as 1540, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and his soldiers constructed a primitive fortification here to defend themselves from native attack...
  
  

Indiana

• Fort Benjamin Harrison
  Fort Benjamin Harrison
  Fort Benjamin Harrison was a U.S. Army post located in suburban Lawrence, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis. It is named for the 23rd United States President, Benjamin Harrison. Land was purchased in 1903, with the post being officially named for President Harrison in honor of Indianapolis being...
  
  
• 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.- Original Trading Post :...
  
  
• 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.- Original Trading Post :...
  
  
• Fort Miami
  Forts of Fort Wayne, Indiana
  Fort Wayne in modern Fort Wayne, Indiana, was established by Captain Jean François Hamtramck under orders from General "Mad" Anthony Wayne as part of the campaign against the Indians of the area. It was named after General Wayne, who was victorious at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Wayne may have...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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.- Original Trading Post :...
  
  
• 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.- Original Trading Post :...
  
  
• Fort Wayne
  Forts of Fort Wayne, Indiana
  Fort Wayne in modern Fort Wayne, Indiana, was established by Captain Jean François Hamtramck under orders from General "Mad" Anthony Wayne as part of the campaign against the Indians of the area. It was named after General Wayne, who was victorious at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Wayne may have...
  
  

Iowa

• Fort Atkinson
  Fort Atkinson State Preserve
  Fort Atkinson State Preserve is a state preserve of Iowa, USA, containing the remnants of Fort Atkinson, a U.S. Army frontier post created to keep the peace between various Native American tribes as well as prevent white settlers from encroaching on Indian lands.-History:The 1830 Treaty of Prairie...
  
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• Fort Des Moines I, II, and III (1834-present)
• Fort Dodge (1850–1853)
• Fort Madison (1808–1813)

Kansas

• Fort Aubrey
  Fort Aubrey
  Fort Aubrey, in eastern Hamilton County, Kansas, was established by the US Army in the 1850s. It originally had no name and was not made a truly permanent post until 1865. It was originally established to serve as a temporary resting place for traveling troops.The intermittant camp was...
  
  
• Aubry's Post
  Aubry's Post
  On March 7, 1862, Confederate guerrillas under William C. Quantrill raided the small Kansas town of Aubry, southwest of Kansas City, Missouri, and just west of the Kansas-Missouri border. Three residents were killed in the raid and much property was carted away by the guerrillas.Quantrill's raid...
  
  
• Fort Bain
• Barnesville's Post
  Barnesville's Post
  Barnesville, located in Bourbon County, Kansas, was the site of military camps for stretches of time during the American Civil War. The first mention of a camp there came from a report written on September 4, 1861, by Sen. James Lane. This was during the time Lane had evacuated Fort Scott and...
  
  
• Fort Belmont
  Fort Belmont
  Fort Belmont, in southern Woodson County, Kansas, was built about 1860 near the town of Belmont. It was to protect the settlers there from attacks by Border Ruffians and Indians. The fort consisted of three or four officer cabins, a redoubt about a quarter of a mile to the north and a parade...
  
  
• Fort Bissell
• Fort Blair (Fort Scott)
  Fort Blair (Fort Scott)
  In spring and possibly through summer 1864, three blockhouses were constructed to help defend the town and post of Fort Scott. These were Fort Blair, Fort Henning and Fort Insley. Fort Blair was enclosed by a rectangular wall of log palisades covered on the outside by earthworks, which in turn were...
  
  
• Fort Brooks
  Fort Brooks
  Fort Brooks, in northwest Clay County, Kansas, was located three miles west of Clifton, Kansas. Built on the north bank of the Republican River in August or September 1864, it was named for George D. Brooks. Brooks, an ensign in the Shirley County Militia, owned the farm on which the fort was...
  
  
• Burlingame's Fort
  Burlingame's Fort
  In 1862 the citizens of Burlingame, Kansas, constructed a stone fort around the town well, in an intersection in the business district. This was done to prevent the burning of Burlingame by Confederate guerrilla William Anderson, later known as Bloody Bill Anderson...
  
  
• Camp Ben Butler
  Camp Ben Butler
  In early May 1863 a temporary camp, Camp Hooker, was established at the site of what later became Baxter Springs, Kansas. This area was located in what was known as the Cherokee Strip . In late May while the camp commander, Col. James M. Williams, was in Fort Scott, the troops moved the camp...
  
  
• Fort de Cavagnial
• Fort Cavagnolle
• Chapman's Dugout
  Chapman's Dugout
  In the early 1860s Stephen B. Chapman and his family lived on a farm near the town of Black Jack, south of Lawrence, Kansas. In summer 1863 Bushwhackers began traveling through the area, terrorizing the citizens. After William C...
  
  
• A.P. Chouteau's Fort
• Fort Clifton
  Fort Clifton
  Clifton, Kansas, was established in 1859 in northern Clay County, Kansas. The first building erected there was a one-room log hut that served the pioneers who settled there as a fort during troubled times between them and the area's Indians...
  
  
• Fort Clinton
  Fort Clinton
  Fort Clinton was an American Revolutionary War fortification in present-day Highlands, Orange County, New York. It was 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...
  
  
• Coldwater Grove's Post
  Coldwater Grove's Post
  During the Civil War, Coldwater Grove existed 13½ miles east of Paola, Kansas. It straddled the Kansas-Missouri border, being partly in both states. About June 1863 a Union military post was established on the Kansas side of the community and the post was put under the command of Lt. Col. Charles...
  
  
• Council Grove's Post
  Council Grove's Post
  Council Grove, Kansas, was a town with mixed loyalties during the Civil War. While the majority of the area's citizens supported the Union cause, quite a number of residents had ties to the south and many sympathyzed with the Confederacy...
  
  
• Camp Defiance
  Camp Defiance
  In December 1861 Potosi, Kansas, along the Kansas-Missouri border, was attacked by Confederate guerrillas. Very soon Col. James Montgomery stationed the Kansas 3rd Regiment about to the northeast....
  
  
• Fort Dodge
  Fort Dodge (US Army Post)
  The site of Fort Dodge in the US state of Kansas was originally an old campground for wagons traveling along the Santa Fe Trail. A military camp was established on the site in 1864, but was abandoned....
  
  
• Fort Downer
• Fort Drinkwater
  Fort Drinkwater
  Fort Drinkwater, in western Chase County, Kansas, was built in 1857 by Orlo H. Drinkwater and W. L. Fowler on Drinkwater's farm. The fort served the area settlers as a refuge during Indian disturbances until 1868. It was built on the south bank of Cedar Creek...
  
  
• Camp Drywood
  Camp Drywood
  Camp Drywood was established by the US Army in fall 1862. It was located about fifteen miles south of Fort Scott. It was intended to serve as a military post guarding against Confederate guerrillas in the area...
  
  
• Eggert House
  Eggert House
  Eggert House is located 1½ miles west of the abandoned Franklin townsite in Douglas County, Kansas. Franklin was east of Lawrence, Kansas. Originally the house was a log hut that the Johan H. Eggert family moved into in 1856...
  
  
• Fort Ellsworth
  Fort Ellsworth (Kansas)
  In June 1864 soldiers from the 7th Iowa Cavalry, under the command of 2nd Lt. Allen Ellsworth, established a fort four miles southeast of the site that eventually became Ellsworth, Kansas. A two-story blockhouse was built there. In July Maj. Gen. Samuel Curtis, the department commander, named the...
  
  
• Fort Expedient
• Fort Fletcher
• Fort Folly
• Fort Harker
  Fort Harker (Kansas)
  Fort Harker, located in Kanopolis, Kansas, was an active military installation of the United States Army from November 17, 1866 to October 5, 1872. The fortification was named after General Charles Garrison Harker, who was killed in action at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the American Civil War...
  
  
• Fort Hays
  Fort Hays
  Fort Hays was an important frontier outpost of the United States Army located in Hays, Kansas between 1865 and 1889. Fort Hays was the home of several well-known Indian wars regiments including the Seventh U.S. Cavalry, the Fifth U.S. Infantry, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry, whose black troopers were...
  
  
• Fort Henning
  Fort Henning
  In spring and probably into summer 1864 Fort Henning was constructed. It, along with Fort Blair and Fort Insley, was built to help protect the city and post of Fort Scott. Fort Henning, located at the intersection of Second and National Streets, was almost in the center of town. Fort Henning...
  
  
• Fort Humboldt
• Camp Hunter
  Camp Hunter
  Camp Hunter was established in June 1862 or a bit earlier at what is now Baxter Springs, Kansas. It was established by Union troops. At the same time Indian Home Guard regiments established a camp nearby on Little Five Mile Creek....
  
  
• Indian Home Guard Camp (Baxter Springs)
  Indian Home Guard Camp (Baxter Springs)
  In June 1862 two Union camps were established in the vicinity of what is today Baxter Springs, Kansas. One was Camp Hunter, located in what is now the center of the town. The other was the Indian Home Guard Camp, located at Little Five Mile Creek, 1½ miles southeast of Camp Hunter.The area where...
  
  
• Fort Insley
  Fort Insley
  In spring and summer 1864 Fort Blair, Fort Henning and Fort Insley were constructed to help protect the town and post of Fort Scott from Confederate forces. Fort Insley was named for Capt. Martain H. Insley. It was located just northeast of town, about 1½ blocks northeast of the main part of the...
  
  
• Fort Jewell
• Fort Kansas
• Fort Kanses
• Fort Lane
• Fort Larned
  Fort Larned National Historic Site
  Fort Larned National Historic Site, located six miles west of Larned, Kansas, United States, preserves Fort Larned, which operated from 1859 to 1878...
  
  
• Fort Leavenworth
  Fort Leavenworth
  Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army facility located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, immediately north of the city of Leavenworth in the upper northeast portion of the state. It is the oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C. and has been in operation for over 180 years...
  
  
• Fort Lecompton
• Fort Lincoln
  Fort Lincoln (Kansas)
  Fort Lincoln was established about August 24, 1861, by US Sen. James Lane. Earlier, August Lane had reestablished Fort Scott as a military post...
  
  
• Fort Lincoln blockhouse
  Fort Lincoln blockhouse
  Sometime in 1864 a large log blockhouse was removed from Fort Lincoln, Kansas, and was relocated to the town of Fort Scott, Kansas. This blockhouse was placed at the intersection of Lowman and First streets...
  
  
• 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 National Historic Landmark....
  
  
• Fort Mann
• Fort McKean
  Fort McKean
  Fort McKean is a fort located inside Kansas along the Kansas-Missouri border. On November 14, 1862, Company C of the 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry, led by Lieut. James B. Pond, established a camp at Morris Mills on Drywood Creek. It was fifteen miles southeast of Fort Scott. Sometime later this camp...
  
  
• Fort Montgomery (Eureka)
  Fort Montgomery (Eureka)
  Fort Montgomery in the town of Eureka, Kansas was built in summer 1861 by local citizens for protection against Indian attacks and Confederate guerrilla forces....
  
  
• Fort Montgomery (Linn County)
  Fort Montgomery (Linn County)
  Fort Montgomery was a fortress home constructed of logs by James Montgomery in 1855 five miles west of Mound City, Kansas, in Linn County.Montgomery was a free-state leader in Kansas Territory. This was after southerners burned his previous cabin...
  
  
• Fort Monument
• Mount Oread Civil War posts
  Mount Oread Civil War posts
  Lawrence, Kansas was not well defended in the early part of the Civil War. That ended with William Quantrill's devastating guerrilla raid August 21, 1863. By early 1864 Union soldiers were permanently camped on the top and slopes of Mount Oread, then to Lawrence's southwest. It seems the camp...
  
  
• Fort Podunk
• Fort Pyramid
• Fort Riley
  Fort Riley
  Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in Northeast Kansas, on the Kansas River, between Junction City and Manhattan. The Fort Riley Military Reservation covers 100,656 acres in Geary and Riley counties and includes two census-designated places: Fort Riley North and Fort...
  
  
• Fort Roach
• Fort Row
  Fort Row
  Fort Row, located on the south bank of the Verdigris River and east of the present town of Coyville, Kansas, was built in the fall of 1861, probably in October. It was built by the local mounted militia for their use...
  
  
• Fort Saunders
• Fort Scott
  Fort Scott National Historic Site
  Fort Scott National Historic Site is a historical area under the control of the United States National Park Service in Bourbon County, Kansas, United States. Named after Mexican-American War General Winfield Scott, during the middle of the 19th century it served as a military base for army action...
  
  
• Fort Simple
  Fort Simple
  Fort Simple was built in Topeka, Kansas, as a result of Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Missouri Raid in the late summer and fall of 1864 . Topeka had become the permanent capital of the State of Kansas in 1861, but no fortifications had been built to protect the city from guerrilla bands, which roamed...
  
  
• Fort Sod
• Fort Sodom
• Fort Solomon
  Fort Solomon
  In early 1864 settlers in Ottawa County, Kansas, began building Fort Solomon and completed it by the spring or summer. This structure replaced the much smaller dugout owned by the Chapman family and used as a refuge in times of trouble . The Chapman dugout was about a mile south of Fort Solomon...
  
  
• Fort Sully (Fort Leavenworth)
  Fort Sully (Fort Leavenworth)
  Fort Sully was built on the plateau of Hancock Hill, the highest hill just west of Fort Leavenworth, in September and October 1864. Its purpose was to boost the defenses of Fort Leavenworth in case Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. Sterling Price attempted to overrun the area...
  
  
• Fort Sumner
  Fort Sumner
  Fort Sumner was a military fort in De Baca County in southeastern New Mexico charged with the internment of Navajo and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863-1868 at nearby Bosque Redondo.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Titus
• Fort de la Trinité
• Fort Village
• Fort Wakarusa
• Fort Wallace
  Fort Wallace
  Fort Wallace was a US Cavalry fort built in Wallace County, Kansas to help defend settlers against Cheyenne and Sioux raids. All that remains today is the cemetery, but for a period of over a decade Fort Wallace was one of the most important military outposts on the frontier.-External links:* * *...
  
  
• Fort Wichita
• Fort Wyncoop
• Fort Zarah
  Fort Zarah
  A fort in Barton County, Kansas, just outside Great Bend, Kansas, that was used from 1864-1869.- Dates of operation :In July 1864, because of frequent Indian attacks in the area, Camp Dunlap was established 2 miles east of present day Great Bend, Kansas, where the Santa Fe Trail crossed the Walnut...
  
  

Kentucky

• Fort at the Falls
• Fort Campbell
  Fort Campbell
  Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located astraddle the Kentucky-Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennessee...
  
  
• Fort Knox
  Fort Knox
  Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. The base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties. It currently holds the Army Human Resources Center of Excellence to include the Army Human Resources Command, United States Army Cadet...
  
  
• Fort Hartford, Hartford, KY
• Fort Nelson
• Fort, Vienna, Calhoun, KY
• Fort William
  Fort William (Kentucky)
  Fort William was a pioneer fort in Kentucky established in 1785 by Colonel William Christian and Anne Christian. William Christian directed the defense of what is now Louisville from attacks by the Indians. The fort was in the area of Jefferson County near St. Matthews and Lyndon...
  
  
• Spring Fort

Louisiana

• Fort Jackson
  Fort Jackson, Louisiana
  Fort Jackson is a decommissioned masonry fort located some up river from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. It was constructed as a coastal defense of New Orleans between 1822 and 1832, and was a battle site in the American Civil War. It is a National Historic...
  
  
• Fort Macomb
  Fort Macomb
  Fort Macomb is a 19th century fortress in Louisiana, on the western shore of Chef Menteur Pass. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally within the city limits of New Orleans, Louisiana, although some miles distant from the city when first built and still a considerable...
  
  
• Fort Pike
  Fort Pike
  Fort Pike is a decommissioned 19th century fort, named after Brigadier General Zebulon Montgomery Pike, which formerly guarded the Rigolets pass in Louisiana. It was near the community of Petite Coquille, Louisiana, and now within the city limits of New Orleans, and was long a tourist attraction...
  
  
• Fort Polk
  Fort Polk
  Fort Polk is a United States Army installation located in Vernon Parish, approximately 7 miles east of Leesville, Louisiana and 20 miles north of DeRidder, Louisiana....
  
  
• Fort Proctor / Fort Beauregard
  Fort Proctor
  Fort Proctor is a ruined 19th century fort in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Also known as Fort Beauregard or Beauregard's Castle is located on the shore of Lake Borgne just north of the mouth of Bayou Yscolskey...
  
  
• Fort St. Philip
  Fort St. Philip
  Fort St. Philip is a decommissioned masonry fort located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, about up river from its mouth in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana...
  
  

Maine

• Fort Baldwin
  Fort Baldwin
  Fort Baldwin is a coastal defense land battery near the mouth of the Kennebec River in Phippsburg, Maine, United States. It 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...
  
  
• Fort Gorges
  Fort Gorges
  Fort Gorges is a United States military fort built on Hog Island Ledge in Casco Bay, Maine.-History:Following the War of 1812, the United States Army Corps of Engineers proposed that a fort be built on Hog Island Ledge, in Casco Bay at the entrance to the harbor at Portland, Maine...
  
  , historic fort open to the public
• Fort Halifax
  Fort Halifax (Maine)
  Fort Halifax was a U.S. colonial outpost on the Kennebec River at modern-day Winslow, Maine. It is a National Historic Landmark.-History:Fort Halifax was a fort on the north bank of the Sebasticook River. Its blockhouse, which survives, is the oldest blockhouse in the United States....
  
  , reconstructed fort
• Fort Kent
  Fort Kent (fort)
  Fort Kent is a site significant for its association with the Aroostook War.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973, and is now known as Fort Kent State Historic Site...
  
  , a blockhouse remains
• Fort Knox, now a state park, historic fort
• Fort McClary
  Fort McClary
  Fort McClary is a former defensive fortification of the United States military located along the southern coast of Maine at Kittery Point, the seaside district of Kittery. Used primarily throughout the 19th century, it was built to protect approaches to the nearby Piscataqua River...
  
  , now a state memorial, historic blockhouse is a museum
• Fort Pentagouet
• Fort Popham
  Fort Popham
  Fort Popham is a coastal defense land battery at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Phippsburg, Maine. It is located in sight of the short-lived Popham Colony and, like the colony, named for George Popham, the colony's leader...
  
  , historic fort open to the public
• Fort Scammel, on a privately owned island
• Fort Williams, Maine, now a town park open to the public

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...
  
  , abandoned historic fort
• Fort Cumberland (Maryland)
  Fort Cumberland (Maryland)
  thumb|380px|Fort Cumberland, 1755 Fort Cumberland was an 18th century frontier fort at the current site of Cumberland, Maryland, USA...
  
  
• Fort Defiance
  Fort Defiance (Maryland)
  Fort Defiance was an earthworks fortification on the western bank of the Elk River in northern Maryland. The fort was in use from 1813 to 1815 during the War of 1812 and repelled British forces on April 29, 1813. Today, there is a historical marker located approximately northwest of the original...
  
  , abandoned historic fort
• 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 United States' biological weapons program ....
  
  
• Fort Frederick
  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 and American Revolutionary War. The park is south of the town of Big Pool on the Potomac River; the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal runs through the park grounds...
  
  , now a state park, restored historic fort
• Fort George G. Meade
  Fort George G. Meade
  Fort George G. Meade is a United States Army installation that includes the Defense Information School, the United States Army Field Band, and the headquarters of United States Cyber Command, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Courier Service...
  
  
• Fort McHenry
  Fort McHenry
  Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland, is a star-shaped fort best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy in Chesapeake Bay...
  
  , premier restored historic fort
• Fort Washington
  Fort Washington Park
  Fort Washington, located near the community of Fort Washington, Maryland, USA, was for many decades the only defensive fort protecting Washington D.C. The original fort, overlooking the Potomac River, was completed in 1809, and was named Fort Warburton...
  
  

Massachusetts

• Acushnet Fort
• Fort Andrews
  Fort Andrews
  Fort Andrew was a six-gun Patriot fort also known as Gurnet Fort. Once located at Gurnet Point, it was rebuilt in 1808, and again in 1863 and was renamed. It became a federal fort in 1869. The reservation was sold in 1926 and became private property. A World War II fire-control tower was built on...
  
  
• Fort Banks
  Fort Banks (Massachusetts)
  Fort Banks was a U.S. Coast Artillery fort located in Winthrop, Massachusetts. It served to defend Boston Harbor from enemy attack from the sea and was built in the 1890s during what is known as the Endicott period, a time in which the coast defenses of the United States were seriously expanded and...
  
  , historic battery
• Beverly Fort
• Bonnet Point Fort
• Cow Fort
• Fort Dawes
• Fort Defiance
• Fort Duvall
  Fort Duvall
  Fort Duvall was a Coast Artillery fort, part of the defenses of Boston Harbor, in Massachusetts. What was then called Hog Island was acquired by the U.S. government in 1917, and the fort was constructed in the early 1920s...
  
  
• Eastern Point Fort
• Gilbert Heights Fort
• Fort Gloucester
• Fort Glover
• Fort Heath
  Fort Heath
  Fort Heath was built in 1898 as a Coast Artillery fort, located on Grovers Cliff in Winthrop, Massachusetts, and was part of the defenses of Boston Harbor. It was named in honor of General William Heath, who served in the American Revolution...
  
  
• Fort Independence
  Fort Independence (Massachusetts)
  Fort Independence is a granite star fort that provided harbor defenses for Boston, Massachusetts. Located on Castle Island, Fort Independence is the oldest continuously fortified site of English origin in the United States. The first primitive fortification was placed on the site in 1634 and...
  
  , historic fort open to the public
• Fort Juniper
• Fort Lee
• Fort Massachusetts
• Fort Miller
• Fort Nichols
• Old Stone Fort
• Fort Philip
• Fort Phoenix
  Fort Phoenix
  Fort Phoenix is a Revolutionary War-era fort located at the entrance to the Fairhaven-New Bedford harbor, south of U.S. 6 in Fort Phoenix Park in Fairhaven, Massachusetts....
  
  
• Fort Pickering
  Fort Pickering
  Fort Pickering is a historic fort site on Winter Island in Salem, Massachusetts.The fort was first established in 1644 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973....
  
  
• Fort Ralph
• Fort Revere
  Fort Revere
  Fort Revere is an historic site situated on a small peninsula located in Hull, Massachusetts. It is situated on Telegraph Hill in Hull Village and houses the remains of two seacoast fortifications, a water tower with an observation deck, a military history museum and picnic facilities...
  
  
• Fort Ridiculous
• Fort Rodman
• Fort Ruckman
  Fort Ruckman
  Fort Ruckman was a U.S. Coast Artillery fort located in Nahant, Massachusetts. Originally called the Nahant Military Reservation, the fort was laid out in 1904-1907 and covered an area of about 45 acres just northwest of Bass Point, on the southwest side of the Nahant peninsula. During the 1920s,...
  
  
• Fort Sewal
• Stage Fort
• Fort Standish (1st Location)
• Fort Standish (2nd Location)
• Fort Stark
• Fort Strong
  Fort Strong
  Fort Strong is located on Long Island in Boston Harbor.It was originally named Long Island Military Reservation until 1899.Camp Wightman, a Civil War training camp, was located on the island in 1861....
  
  
• Fort Useless
• Fort Warren
  Fort Warren (Massachusetts)
  Fort Warren is a historic fort on the Georges Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor. The fort is pentagonal, made with stone and granite, and was constructed from 1833–1861, completed shortly after the beginning of the American Civil War...
  
  , historic fort open to the public
• Fort Washington
• Fort Winthrop
  Fort Winthrop
  Fort Winthrop was a defensive fortification in Boston Harbor named after John Winthrop, the early governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was built on Governors Island, which had been granted to Winthrop in 1632. His family owned the island until 1808, when the United States acquired land in...
  
  

Michigan

• Fort de Buade
  Fort de Buade
  Fort de Buade was a French fort at the present site of St. Ignace in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was garrisoned between 1683 and 1701.-The mission:...
  
  
• Fort Detroit
  Fort Detroit
  Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit or Fort Détroit was a fort established by the French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac in 1701. The location of the former fort is now in the city of Detroit 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 is a former American military outpost garrisoned from the late 18th century to the late 19th century near Michilimackinac, Michigan, on Mackinac Island...
  
  
• 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 explorers led by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on the banks of what was then called the River...
  
  
• Fort Michilimackinac
  Fort Michilimackinac
  Fort Michilimackinac was an 18th century French, and later British, fort and trading post in the Great Lakes of North America. Built around 1715, it was located along the southern shore of the strategic Straits of Mackinac connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, at the northern tip of the lower...
  
  
• Fort St. Joseph (Niles)
• Fort St. Joseph (Port Huron)
  Fort St. Joseph (Port Huron)
  A short lived French 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, Henri de Tonti, Nicholas Perrot, Oliver Morel de La Durantaye, and thirty French soldiers gathered there under Marquis de...
  
  , rebuilt as Fort Gratiot
  Fort Gratiot
  Fort Gratiot was an American stockade fort in Fort Gratiot, Michigan, in Saint Clair County, Michigan.The Army constructed Fort Gratiot in 1814 as an outpost to guard the juncture of the Saint Clair River and Lake Huron. The fort took the name of the engineer supervising its construction, Charles...
  
  
• Fort Wayne (Detroit)
  Fort Wayne (Detroit)
  Fort Wayne is located in the city of Detroit, Michigan, at the foot of Livernois Avenue in the Delray neighborhood. The fort is situated on the Detroit River at a point where it is about a mile to the Canadian shore. The original 1848 limestone barracks still stands, as does the 1845 star...
  
  

Minnesota

• Fort Beauharnois
  Fort Beauharnois
  Fort Beauharnois was a French fort 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. It was the site of the first Roman Catholic chapel in Minnesota, which was dedicated to...
  
  
• Fort L'Huillier
  Fort L'Huillier
  Fort L'Huillier was a short-lived fortification located on the Blue Earth River, just south of its confluence with the Minnesota River in southern Minnesota, United States....
  
  
• Fort Ridgely
  Fort Ridgely
  Fort Ridgely was a United States Army outpost near the Dakota reservation in southwestern Minnesota . Built between 1853–1855, it played an important role in the Dakota War of 1862...
  
  
• Fort St. Charles
  Fort St. Charles
  Fort Saint Charles was a secure trading post constructed in 1732, one of several western forts built under the direction of military commander La Vérendrye...
  
  
• Fort Snelling

Mississippi

• Fort Massachusetts
  Fort Massachusetts (Mississippi)
  Fort Massachusetts is a fort on West Ship Island along the Mississippi Gulf Coast of the United States. It was built following the War of 1812, with brick walls during 1859-1866, and remained in use until 1903. Currently, it is a historical tourist attraction within the Gulf Islands National Seashore...
  
  
• Fort Maurepas
  Fort Maurepas
  Not to be confused with the Fort Maurepas built in 1699 by Bienville and Iberville in present-day Ocean Springs, Mississippi.Fort Maurepas was one of the first forts built by Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye and his men. In 1733, they traveled from Fort St. Charles, which was...
  
  

Missouri

• Fort Bellefontaine
  Fort Bellefontaine
  Fort Bellefontaine was the first United States military installation in the Louisiana Territory.Located on the south bank of the Missouri River, in Missouri, Fort Bellefontaine was first a Spanish military post. Later, by a treaty made between the United States Government, signed by William H...
  
  
• Fort Cap au Gris
  Fort Cap au Gris
  Fort Cap au Gris, also called Capo Gray, was a temporary fort built in September 1814 near Troy, Missouri during the War of 1812 by Missouri Rangers under the direction of Nathan Boone, son of Daniel Boone. After the defeat of Fort Johnson, U.S...
  
  
• Fort Leonard Wood
  Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
  Fort Leonard Wood is a census-designated place in Pulaski County, Missouri, United States. The population was 13,667 at the 2000 census. It is named in honor of Major General Leonard Wood, who was awarded the Medal of Honor...
  
  
• Fort Osage
  Fort Osage
  Fort Osage was part of the United States factory trading post system for the Osage Nation in the early 19th century near Sibley, Missouri....
  
  
• Jefferson Barracks
  Jefferson Barracks Military Post
  The Jefferson Barracks Military Post, located on the Mississippi River at Lemay, Missouri, which is just south of St. Louis, Missouri,was, at first owned land by the DeGamache's then borrowed by military leaders, but after war, the land was not returned. It was an important and highly active U.S....
  
  

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. Army forces led by General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. The fort is located in...
  
  
• Fort C. F. Smith
• Fort Ellis
  Fort Ellis
  Fort Ellis was an early United States Army outpost established August 27, 1867 to the eastern side of present-day Bozeman, Montana. The fort was established to protect and support settlers moving into the Gallatin Valley. The post was named for Civil War Colonel Augustus van Horne Ellis who was...
  
  
• Fort Keogh
  Fort Keogh
  Fort Keogh is located on the western edge of Miles City, Montana. Occasionally spelled Fort Keough. Originally a military post, today it is a United States Department of Agriculture livestock and range research station. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
  
  
• Fort Parker
  Fort Parker
  This article is about the fort in Montana; for the fort in Texas see Fort Parker massacre.The Fort Laramie Indian Treaty of 1868, 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...
  
  
• Fort William Henry Harrison
  Fort William Henry Harrison
  Fort William Henry Harrison is the Montana National Guard training facility.-History:Fort William Henry Harrison was authorized by a Congressional act of 12 May 1892 which was intended to establish, as a part of a greater consolidation program, concentrations of troops in a few larger...
  
  
• Fort Missoula
  Fort Missoula
  Fort Missoula was established by the United States Army in 1877 on land that is now part of the city of Missoula, Montana, to protect white settlers in Western Montana from possible threats from the native American Indians, such as the Nez Perce....
  
  

Nebraska

• Alkali Station
• Armas de Francia
• Fort Atkinson
  Fort Atkinson (Nebraska)
  Fort Atkinson was the first United States Army post to be established west of the Missouri River in the unorganized region of the Louisiana Purchase of 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
• Cabanne's Trading Post
  Cabanne's Trading Post
  Cabanne's Trading Post was established in 1822 by the American Fur Company as Fort Robidoux near present-day Dodge Park in North Omaha, Nebraska. It was named for influential fur trapper Joseph Robidoux...
  
  
• 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
  Nebraska
  Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....
  
  
• 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 the site of the later city of Bellevue, was built in 1822 in the Nebraska Territory by Joshua Pilcher, then president of the Missouri Fur Company. Located on the Missouri River, it developed as one of the first European-American settlements in...
  
  
• 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, United States. The population was 48,520 at the 2010 census.Grand Island is home to the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center which is the sole agency responsible for training law enforcement officers throughout the state,...
  
  
• Fort Grattan
• Fort Hartsuff
• Fort Heath
  Fort Heath
  Fort Heath was built in 1898 as a Coast Artillery fort, located on Grovers Cliff in Winthrop, Massachusetts, and was part of the defenses of Boston Harbor. It was named in honor of General William Heath, who served in the American Revolution...
  
  
• Fort Independence
• Junction Station Post
• 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 .-Origins and various missions of the...
  
  
• Camp Keya Paha
• Fort Kiowa
  Fort Kiowa
  Fort Kiowa was an 19th century American Fur Company trading post on the Missouri River near Oacoma, South Dakota. Fort Kiowa was the destination of Hugh Glass' several hundred mile crawl. The site is now underwater....
  
  
• Liberty Pole Camp
• Fort Lisa
• Little Blue Station Post
• Mackay's House
• Camp McKean
• Cantonment McKean
• Fort McPherson
  Fort McPherson, Nebraska
  Fort McPherson was originally called Cantonment McKean, and was popularly known as Fort Cottonwood. The Fort was an Indian Wars-era U.S...
  
  
• Camp Meiklejohn
• Military Bridge Camp
• Fort Mirage Flats
• Camp Missouri
• Cantonment Missouri
• Camp Mitchell
• Fort Mitchell
  Fort Mitchell, Nebraska
  Fort Mitchell, Nebraska an Army fort in service from 1864-1867. Its location is marked by Nebraska Historical Society Marker 190 on highway NE 92 two miles west of present day, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, just south of the junction with highway NE L79G....
  
  
• 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. Located at 5730 North 30th Street, with the entrance at North 30th and Fort Streets in modern-day North Omaha, Nebraska, the facility is primarily occupied by ...
  
  
• 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 U.S. Army fort and a present-day state park. Located in the Pine Ridge region of northwest Nebraska, it is west of Crawford on U.S. Route 20.- History :...
  
  
• St. Deroin Fort
• Camp Sargent
• Sarpy's Post
• Camp Saunders
• Camp Sheridan
  Camp Sheridan
  Camp Sheridan was established originally as the Post at Spotted Tail Indian Agency, near the Spotted Tail Agency in northwestern Nebraska in March 1874. In 1875, the garrison moved into permanent structures on the west fork of Beaver Creek, 12 miles upstream from the White River, near Hay Springs,...
  
  
• Fort Sheridan
• Sherman Barracks
• Camp Sherman
• Camp Shuman
• Sidney Barracks
• Fort Sidney
  Fort Sidney
  Fort Sidney is a historic fort located in Sidney, Nebraska, United States. The 37th Infantry Regiment established "Sidney Station" at a point midway between the Platte Rivers, where the modern community of Sidney, Nebraska, now stands. Initially the installation was a block house on a bluff with...
  
  
• Post at Spotted Tail Agency

Nevada

• Fort Churchill
  Fort Churchill State Historic Park
  Fort Churchill State Historic Park is a Nevada state park in Lyon County, Nevada, in the United States. Located south of the town of Silver Springs, it is in the Central Nevada Region of Nevada State Parks, and is one of seven National Historic Landmarks in the state of Nevada. The site is one...
  
  
• Fort Halleck

New Hampshire

• Fort Constitution
• Fort at Number 4
  Fort at Number 4
  The Fort at Number 4 was the northernmost British settlement along the Connecticut River in New Hampshire until after the French and Indian War. Now known as Charlestown, it was more than from the nearest other British settlement at Fort Dummer. Construction began in 1740 by brothers Stephen,...
  
  , re-created as a living history museum
• 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. In 1759,...
  
  
• Fort William and Mary
  Fort William and Mary
  Fort William and Mary was a colonial defensive post on the island of New Castle, New Hampshire at the mouth of the Piscataqua River estuary. First fortified by the British in 1632, the fort guarded access to the harbor at Portsmouth....
  
  , now a state park, tower open only for tours

New Jersey

• Fort Dix
• Fort Lee
• Fort Hancock
  Fort Hancock, New Jersey
  Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook, located in Middletown Township in Monmouth County, along the Atlantic coast of eastern New Jersey in the United States. This coastal artillery base played an important part in the defense of New York Harbor and played a role in the...
  
  
• Fort Monmouth
  Fort Monmouth
  Fort Monmouth was an installation of the Department of the Army in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The post is surrounded by the communities of Eatontown, Tinton Falls and Oceanport, New Jersey, and is located about 5 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. The post covers nearly of land, from the Shrewsbury...
  
  
• Fort Mott
  Fort Mott (New Jersey)
  Fort Mott was part of a three-fort defense system designed for the Delaware River during the postbellum modernization period following the American Civil War. The other two forts in the system were Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island and Fort DuPont in Delaware City, Delaware...
  
  
• Fortifications of New Netherland
  Fortifications of New Netherland
  New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the seventeenth century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to southern Cape Cod. Settled areas are now part of...
  
  
• Fort Nonsense

New Mexico

• Fort Bascom
  Fort Bascom
  Fort Bascom, established in 1863, is located in New Mexico on the Canadian River slightly west of the Texas border. The fort was named in honor of Captain George Nicholas Bascom who was killed during the American Civil War on February 21, 1862 while defending Fort Craig against Confederate forces...
  
  
• Fort Bayard
  Bayard, New Mexico
  Bayard is a city in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 2,534 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bayard is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Fort Craig
  Fort Craig
  Fort Craig was a U.S. Army fort located along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, near Elephant Butte Lake State Park and the Rio Grande in Socorro County, New Mexico....
  
  
• Fort Cummings
  Fort Cummings
  Fort Cummings , , a former U. S. Army post located near Cooke's Springs, in Luna County, New Mexico. It is located 20 miles northeast of Deming, New Mexico.-Cooke's Springs:...
  
  
• Fort Fauntleroy (aka Fort Wingate
  Fort Wingate
  Fort Wingate is near Gallup, New Mexico. There were two locations in New Mexico that had this name. The first one was located near San Rafael. The current fort was established on the southern edge of the Navajo territory in 1862. The initial purpose of the fort was to control the large Navajo...
  
  )
• Fort Fillmore
  Fort Fillmore
  Fort Fillmore was a fortification established by Col Edwin Vose Sumner in September of 1851 near Mesilla in what is now New Mexico, primarily to protect settlers and traders traveling to California. Travelers in the Westward Migration were under constant threat from Indian attack, and a network of...
  
  
• Fort Marcy
  Fort Marcy (New Mexico)
  Fort Marcy was a military reservation in New Mexico.At the height of the Mexican War, an undersized military and trading expedition left Austin, Texas, to seize the Santa Fe Trail in 1841. The troops assembled were inadequately equipped, disorganized, and warded off by the Mexican army. As a...
  
  
• Fort McRae
• Fort Selden
  Fort Selden
  Fort Selden was a United States 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 American 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 in the Apache Wars...
  
  
• Fort Sumner
  Fort Sumner
  Fort Sumner was a military fort in De Baca County in southeastern New Mexico charged with the internment of Navajo and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863-1868 at nearby Bosque Redondo.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Thorn (aka Fort Thorne)
• Fort Tularosa
• Fort Union
• Fort Webster
• Fort Wingate
  Fort Wingate
  Fort Wingate is near Gallup, New Mexico. There were two locations in New Mexico that had this name. The first one was located near San Rafael. The current fort was established on the southern edge of the Navajo territory in 1862. The initial purpose of the fort was to control the large Navajo...
  
   (aka Fort Lyon)

New York

• Fort Amsterdam
  Fort Amsterdam
  For the historic fort on the island of Saint Martin, see 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...
  
  
• Castle Clinton
  Castle Clinton
  Castle Clinton or Fort Clinton, once known as Castle Garden, is a circular sandstone fort now located in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, New York City, in the United States. It is perhaps best remembered as America's first immigration station , where more than 8 million...
  
  
• Fort Crown Point
  Fort Crown Point
  Crown Point, was a British fort built by the combined efforts of both British and Provincial troops in North America in 1759 at narrows on Lake Champlain on the border between modern New York State and Vermont...
  
  
• Fort Drum
  Fort Drum
  Fort Drum is a United States Army base in New York near the Canadian border.Fort Drum may also refer to:*Fort Drum, Florida, a nearly-uninhabited town in the United States*Fort Drum , Philippines...
  
  
• 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, Dyker Heights, and Bensonhurst, 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 the Narrows of New York Harbor, built offshore from Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now Bay Ridge in the New York City borough of Brooklyn...
  
  
• Fort Lévis
  Fort Lévis
  Fort Lévis, a fortification on the St. Lawrence River, was built in 1759 by the French. They had decided that Fort de La Présentation was insufficient to defend the St. Lawrence against the British. Named for François Gaston de Lévis, Duc de Lévis, the fort was constructed on Isle Royale, three...
  
  
• Fort Montgomery
  Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain)
  Fort Montgomery on Lake Champlain refers to the second of two American forts built at the northernmost point on the lake: a first, unnamed fort built on the same site in 1816 and Fort Montgomery built in 1844....
  
  
• 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.-Origin:...
  
  
• Fort Oswego
  Fort Oswego
  Fort Oswego was an important frontier post for British traders in the 18th century. A trading post was established in 1722 with a log palisade, and New York governor William Burnet ordered a fort built at the site in 1727. The log palisade fort established a British presence on the Great Lakes....
  
  
• Fort de La Présentation
  Fort de La Présentation
  In 1749, the French Sulpician priest, Abbé Picquet, built a mission fort, which he named Fort de La Présentation . It was also sometimes known as Fort La Galette. It was built at the confluence of the Oswegatchie River and the St Lawrence River in Canada...
  
  
• 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. The fort guarded a portage known as the Oneida Carrying Place during the French and Indian War...
  
  , reconstructed living history museum
• Fort Ticonderoga
  Fort Ticonderoga
  Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century fort built by the Canadians and the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York in the United States...
  
  
• Fort Totten
• Fort Wadsworth
  Fort Wadsworth
  Fort Wadsworth is a former United States military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into Upper and Lower halves, a natural point for defense of the Upper Bay and Manhattan beyond. Prior to closing in 1994 it claimed to be the longest...
  
  
• Fort Washington
  Fort Washington (New York)
  Fort Washington was a fortified position near the north end of Manhattan Island and was located at the highest point on the island. The Fort Washington Site is listed on the U.S...
  
  
• Fort William Henry
  Fort William Henry
  Fort William Henry was a British fort at the southern end of Lake George in the province of New York. It is best known as the site of notorious atrocities committed by Indians against the surrendered British and provincial troops following a successful French siege in 1757, an event which is the...
  
  
• Castle Williams
  Castle Williams
  Notes...
  
  
• Fort Wood

North Carolina

• Fort Bragg
  Fort Bragg (North Carolina)
  Fort Bragg is a major United States Army installation, in Cumberland and Hoke counties, North Carolina, U.S., mostly in Fayetteville but also partly in the town of Spring Lake. It was also a census-designated place in the 2010 census and had a population of 39,457. The fort is named for Confederate...
  
  
• Fort Branch
• Fort Caswell, now private property
• Fort Fisher
  Fort Fisher
  Fort Fisher was a Confederate 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....
  
  , partly reconstructed fortifications with museum and guided tours
• Fort Macon, restored historic fort open to the public

North Dakota

• Fort Abercrombie
  Fort Abercrombie
  Fort Abercrombie, in North Dakota, was an American fort established by authority of an act of Congress, March 3, 1857. The act allocated twenty-five square miles of land on the Red River in Dakota Territory to be used for a military outpost, but the exact location was left to the discretion of...
  
  
• 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 United States Army base at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers in North Dakota, and the site of Sitting Bull's surrender in 1881....
  
  
• Fort Clark
  Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site
  Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site was once the home to a Mandan and later an Arikara settlement. Over the course of its history it also had two factories...
  
  
• Fort Mandan
  Fort Mandan
  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...
  
  
• Fort Ransom
  Fort Ransom, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 70 people, 37 households, and 19 families residing in the city. The population density was 233.1 people per square mile . There were 44 housing units at an average density of 146.5 per square mile...
  
  
• Fort Seward
• Fort Stevenson
  Fort Stevenson
  Fort Stevenson was a frontier military fort in the 19th century in what was then Dakota Territory and what is now North Dakota. The fort was abandoned in 1883 with the sale of all buildings and property. In 1901 the lands encompassing the Fort Stevenson Military Reservation were sold to Black and...
  
  
• Fort Totten
  Fort Totten State Historic Site
  -History:Established on July 17, 1867, the fort was first built to watch over the surrounding Indian Reservation after a group of the Sioux tribe moved to the area after 1867. The soldiers were stationed to enforce the peace and guard transportation routes. The fort was decommissioned in 1890...
  
  
• Fort Union

Ohio

• Fort Ancient
  Fort Ancient
  Fort Ancient is a name for a Native American culture that flourished from 1000-1750 CE among a people who predominantly inhabited land along the Ohio River in areas of modern-day Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, Southeastern Indiana and Western West Virginia. They were a maize based agricultural...
  
  , museum and Indian earthworks open to the public
• Fort Meigs
  Fort Meigs
  Fort Meigs was a fortification along the Maumee River in Ohio during the War of 1812. It is named in honor of Ohio governor Return J. Meigs, Jr., for his support in providing General William Henry Harrison with militia and supplies for the line of forts along the Old Northwest...
  
  , now a state memorial, fully recreated with occasional living history
  Living history
  Living history is an activity that incorporates historical tools, activities and dress into an interactive presentation that seeks to give observers and participants a sense of stepping back in time. Although it does not necessarily seek to reenact a specific event in history, living history is...
  
   guides
• 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. It was built by the British on territory disputed between Britain and the USA; according to the U.S. interpretation of the terms of the...
  
  
• 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 was located on the site of the present-day village of Fort Recovery, Ohio, United States, on the Wabash River within two miles of the boundary with...
  
  , now a state memorial, museum and recreated buildings
• Fort Steuben
  Fort Steuben
  Fort Steuben was a fortification erected in present day Steubenville, Ohio in the 18th century to provide protection from Indians for the first surveyors to venture into the Northwest Territory.-History:...
  
  

Oklahoma

• Fort Arbuckle
• Fort Cobb
  Fort Cobb, Oklahoma
  Fort Cobb is a town in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 667 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Fort Cobb is located at ....
  
  
• Fort Gibson
  Fort Gibson
  Fort Gibson, now located in Oklahoma and designated Fort Gibson Historical Site, guarded the American frontier in Indian Territory from 1824 until 1890...
  
  
• Camp Gruber
  Camp Gruber
  Camp Gruber Maneuver Training Center is an Oklahoma Army National Guard training facility used for Summer field training exercises and for monthly drills. It covers a total of .The base is named after General Edmund L...
  
  
• Fort McCulloch
  Fort McCulloch
  Fort McCulloch was a Confederate military fort built by CSA Brigadier General Albert Pike in the Indian Territory during the American Civil War after the Battle of Pea Ridge.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Nichols
  Camp Nichols
  Camp Nichols, also known as Fort Nichols or Camp Nichols Ranch, was a historic fortification located in present-day Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was built by New Mexico and California volunteers under the command of Col. Kit Carson to protect travelers on the Cimarron Cut-off of the Santa Fe Trail...
  
  
• Fort Reno
  Fort Reno (Oklahoma)
  Fort Reno was established as a permanent post in July 1875, near the Darlington Indian Agency on the old Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation in Indian Territory, in present-day central Oklahoma. Named for General Jesse L. Reno, who died at the Battle of South Mountain, it supported the U.S...
  
  
• Fort Sill
  Fort Sill
  Fort Sill is a United States Army post near Lawton, 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...
  
  
• Fort Supply
  Fort Supply
  Fort Supply was a United States Army post established on November 18, 1868, in Indian Territory to protect the Southern Plains...
  
  
• Fort Towson
  Fort Towson
  Fort Towson was a frontier outpost for Frontier Army Quartermasters along the Permanent Indian Frontier located about two miles northeast of the present community of Fort Towson, Oklahoma....
  
  
• Fort Washita
  Fort Washita
  Fort Washita is the former United States military post and National Historic Landmark located near Nida, Oklahoma on SH 199. Established in 1842 by General Zachary Taylor to protect citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations from the plains indians it was later abandoned by Federal forces at...
  
  
• Fort Wayne
  Fort Wayne (Indian Territory)
  Fort Wayne was established 1839 in Indian Territory by Lt. Col. R.B. Mason of the 1st Dragoons. Named for Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne, it was intended as a link in the great line of forts protecting the American West...
  
  

Oregon

• Fort Astoria
  Fort Astoria
  Fort Astoria was the Pacific Fur Company's primary fur trading post in the Northwest, and was the first American-owned settlement on the Pacific coast. After a short two-year term of US ownership, the British owned and operated it for 33 years. It was the first British port 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...
  
  
• 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. The Fort Hoskins Site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.- History :The post was begun in 1856 on the Luckiamute River under the...
  
  
• Fort Klamath
• Fort Stevens
  Fort Stevens (Oregon)
  Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of 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. The fort was an active military...
  
  
• 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 Wappatoo Island in what is now part of Portland, Oregon. It was the site of a murder and the first Euro-American trial in what is now the state of Oregon...
  
  
• Fort Yamhill
  Fort Yamhill
  Fort Yamhill was an American military fortification in what became the state of Oregon. Built in 1856 in the Oregon Territory, it remained an active post until 1866. The Army outpost was used to provide a presence next to the Grand Ronde Agency Coastal Reservation...
  
  

Pennsylvania

• Fort Augusta
  Fort Augusta
  Fort Augusta was a stronghold in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in the upper Susquehanna Valley from the time of the French and Indian War to the close of the American Revolution. The fort was erected by Col...
  
  
• Fort Bedford
  Fort Bedford
  Fort Bedford was a French and Indian War-era British military fortification located at the present site of Bedford, Pennsylvania. The fort was a star-shaped log fortress erected in the summer of 1758.-Background:...
  
  
• Fort Crawford
• Fort Dewart
• Fort Duquesne
  Fort Duquesne
  Fort Duquesne was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania....
  
  
• Fort Granville
  Fort Granville
  Fort Granville was a militia stockade located in the colonial Province of Pennsylvania. Its site was in what is now Granville Township near Lewistown...
  
  
• 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. The fort was erected by Col. William Clapham, with...
  
  
• Fort Hunter
• Fort Jones (Mount Oliver)
  Fort Jones (Mount Oliver)
  Fort Jones, with its companion, Fort Laughlin were 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. It is named for Benjamin Franklin Jones, a local businessman. Fort Jones...
  
  
• Fort Laughlin
  Fort Laughlin
  Fort Laughlin was an Civil War redoubt, built in 1863 for the defense of Pittsburgh by the employees of Jones and Laughlin Iron Works, and named for James H. Laughlin. It was also known as Fort McKinley or Fort Ormsby. It was a circular earthwork on Ormsby's Hill, now part of Arlington Park on...
  
  
• Fort Le Boeuf
  Fort Le Boeuf
  Fort Le Boeuf, , was a fort established by the French in 1753 on a fork of French Creek, in present-day Waterford, in northwest Pennsylvania...
  
  
• Fort Ligonier
  Fort Ligonier
  Fort Ligonier is a British fortification from the French and Indian War located in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, United States. The fort served as a staging area for the Forbes Expedition of 1758. During the eight years of its existence as a garrison, Fort Ligonier was never taken by an enemy...
  
  
• Fort Machault
  Fort Machault
  Fort Machault was a fort built by the French in 1754 near the confluence of French Creek with the Allegheny River, at present-day Franklin, in northwest Pennsylvania. The fort was part of a line that included Fort Presque Isle, Fort Le Boeuf, and Fort Duquesne.- Description:The fort was built on a...
  
  
• Fort McIntosh
  Fort McIntosh (Pennsylvania)
  Fort McIntosh was an early American log frontier fort situated near 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 Island on the Delaware River below Philadelphia, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia International Airport...
  
  
• Fort Necessity
• Fort Pitt
  Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania)
  Fort Pitt was a fort built at the location of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.-French and Indian War:The fort was built from 1759 to 1761 during the French and Indian War , next to the site of former Fort Duquesne, at the confluence the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Fort Robert Smalls
  Fort Robert Smalls
  Fort Robert Smalls was a 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. It is named for Robert Smalls, a slave who commandeered a Confederate transport and brought his family and...
  
  
• Fort Roberdeau
  Fort Roberdeau
  Fort Roberdeau, also known as The Lead Mine Fort, is a historic fort located near Culp, Blair County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1777, and reconstructed in 1939-1941, by concerned local agencies with support from the National Youth Administration. It is a square structure with blockhouse-like...
  
  
• Fort Venango
  Fort Venango
  Fort Venango was a small British fort built in 1760 near the site of present Franklin, Pennsylvania. The fort replaced Fort Machault, a French fort burned by the French in 1759 after they left the area near the end of the French and Indian War. On June 16, 1763, during Pontiac's Rebellion, the fort...
  
  

Puerto Rico

• Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico
  Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico
  United States Army Garrison Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico is the U.S. Army’s only active military installation in Puerto Rico. Located in the Metropolitan area of San Juan, it serves under the direct control of the Installation Management Command, Southeast Region...
  
  
• El Cañuelo
  El Cañuelo
  Fortín San Juan de la Cruz , better known as el Cañuelo, is located on Isla de Cabras, Puerto Rico. It is part of San Juan National Historic Site.-History:This fort was originally built in wood in 1610...
  
  
• Fort San Cristóbal (Puerto Rico)
• Fort San Felipe del Morro
  Fort San Felipe del Morro
  Also known as Fort San Felipe del Morro or Morro Castle, is a 16th-century citadel located in San Juan, Puerto Rico.- Rundown :Lies on the northwestern-most point of the islet of San Juan, Puerto Rico...
  
  
• Fortín de San Gerónimo
• Fuerte de Vieques
  Fuerte de Vieques
  Fuerte de Vieques, also known as El Fortin Conde de Mirasol, is a fort built in 1845 located in the town of Isabel Segunda in Vieques, an island municipality of Puerto Rico. In 1991, the fort was restored by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture...
  
  

South Carolina

• Fort Charlotte
  Fort Charlotte (South Carolina)
  Fort Charlotte is located in McCormick County, South Carolina beneath the waters of the Strom Thurmond Lake. It was named for the reigning queen at the time. The Fort was made mostly of granite quarried from across the Savannah River...
  
  
• Fort Jackson
• Fort Motte
  Fort Motte
  Fort Motte was a plantation commandeered by the British as a temporary military outpost in what is now South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War...
  
  
• Fort Moultrie
• Old Ninety Six and Star Fort
  Ninety Six National Historic Site
  Ninety Six National Historic Site, also known as Old Ninety Six and Star Fort, is a United States National Historic Site located about 60 miles south of Greenville, South Carolina...
  
  
• Fort Prince George
  Fort Prince George (South Carolina)
  Fort Prince George was constructed in 1753 in northwest South Carolina, on the Cherokee Path. It was named for the Prince of Wales, who would later become King George III of the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Fort Sumter
  Fort Sumter
  Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston 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.- Construction :...
  
  
• Fort Wagner
  Fort Wagner
  Fort Wagner was a beachhead fortification on Morris Island, South Carolina, that covered the southern approach to Charleston harbor...
  
  

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. The site for the fort was selected in 1856 by General William S. Harney...
  
  
• Fort Sully

Tennessee

• Fort Adair
  Fort Adair
  Fort Adair was a stockade fortification that served as a supply depot for early settlers migrating west. The structure was constructed in 1788 or around 1791 at Grassy Valley, an early European settlement in the Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley region of East Tennessee...
  
  
• Fort Assumption
  Fort Assumption
  Fort Assumption was a French fortification constructed in 1739 on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff on the Mississippi River at present day Memphis, Tennessee...
  
  
• Bledsoe's Fort
• Fort Blount
  Fort Blount
  Fort Blount was a frontier fort and federal outpost located along the Cumberland River in Jackson County, Tennessee, USA. Situated at the point where Avery's Trace crossed the river, the fort provided an important stopover for migrants and merchants travelling from the Knoxville area to the...
  
  
• Camp Boone
  Camp Boone
  Camp Boone, Tennessee was located on Guthrie Road/ U.S. Route 79 near the Kentucky - Tennessee border at Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee .Camp Boone was laid out in early 1861 by three men who had been authorized to raise a Kentucky Regiment for...
  
  
• Fort Cass
  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 in present-day Charleston, Tennessee, it housed a garrison of United States troops and watched over the largest concentration of internment camps where...
  
  
• Fort Defiance, Tennessee
  Fort Defiance, Tennessee
  In November 1861, Confederate troops began to build a defensive fort that would control the river approach to Clarksville, Tennessee. They mounted three guns in the fort. On February 19, 1862, Federal gunboats came up the river from Fort Donelson and reported the fort displayed a white flag and was...
  
  
• Fort Donelson
  Fort Donelson
  Fort Donelson was a fortress built by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to control the Cumberland River leading to the heart of Tennessee, and the heart of the Confederacy.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Henry
• Fort Loudon
  Fort Loudoun (Tennessee)
  Fort Loudoun was a British colonial fort in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee, near the towns of the Overhill Cherokee. The fort was reconstructed during the Great Depression and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Nashborough
  Fort Nashborough
  Fort Nashborough was the stockade for the settlement that became the city of Nashville, Tennessee, USA. A reconstruction, maintained by Nashville Parks and Recreation today stands on the banks of the Cumberland River near the site of the original fort....
  
  
• Fort Negley
  Fort Negley
  Fort Negley was a fortification built for the American Civil War, located approximately south of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. It was the largest inland fort built in the United States during the war...
  
  
• Fort Pillow
• Fort Prudhomme
  Fort Prudhomme
  Fort Prudhomme, or Prud'homme, was a simple stockade fortification, constructed on one of the Chickasaw Bluffs of the Mississippi River in West Tennessee by Cavelier de La Salle's French canoe expedition of the Mississippi River Basin in 1682...
  
  
• Fort Randolph
  Fort Randolph (Tennessee)
  Fort Randolph was a Confederate Army fortification built in 1861 during the Civil War. Fort Randolph was located on the second Chickasaw Bluff at Randolph, Tipton County, Tennessee.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Sanders
  Battle of Fort Sanders
  The Battle of Fort Sanders was the decisive engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War, fought in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 29, 1863. Assaults by Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet failed to break through the defensive lines of Union Maj. Gen...
  
  
• Fort Southwest Point
  Fort Southwest Point
  Fort Southwest Point was a federal frontier outpost at what is now Kingston, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Constructed in 1797 and garrisoned by federal soldiers until 1811, the fort served as a major point of interaction between the Cherokee and the United States government as...
  
  
• Tellico Blockhouse
  Tellico Blockhouse
  The Tellico Blockhouse was an early American outpost located along the Little Tennessee River in Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee. Completed in 1794, the blockhouse operated until 1807 with the purpose of keeping the peace between nearby Overhill Cherokee towns and early Euro-American settlers in...
  
  
• Fort Watauga
  Fort Watauga
  Fort Watauga, more properly Fort Caswell, was an American Revolutionary War fort that once stood at the Sycamore Shoals of the Watauga River in what is now Elizabethton, Tennessee...
  
  
• White's Fort
• Fort Wright
  Fort Wright (Tennessee)
  Fort Wright was constructed in 1861 and located on the second Chickasaw Bluff at Randolph, Tipton County, Tennessee. Fort Wright was a Civil War fortification and the first military training facility of the Confederate Army in Tennessee.-History:...
  
  

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 about , it is the Army's second-largest installation behind the adjacent White Sands Missile Range. It is FORSCOM's largest installation, and has the Army's largest Maneuver Area behind the...
  
  
• 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.-Early years:...
  
  
• Fort Concho
  Fort Concho
  Fort Concho is a National Historic Landmark owned and operated since 1935 by the city of San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County in West Texas...
  
  
• Fort Crockett
  Fort Crockett
  Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlookingthe Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation 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.The base...
  
  
• Fort Davis
  Fort Davis National Historic Site
  Fort Davis National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in unincorporated Jeff Davis County, Texas. Located within the Davis Mountains of West Texas, the historic site was established in 1961 to protect one of the best remaining examples of a United States Army fort in...
  
  
• Fort Hood
• Fort Saint Louis
• Fort Worth

Utah

• Fort Buenaventura
  Fort Buenaventura
  Fort Buenaventura was the first permanent Anglo settlement in the Great Basin and the region that is now the state of Utah in the United States. It was founded in 1846 just east of the Weber River, west of current downtown Ogden, Utah. The fort and the surrounding land were bought by the Mormon...
  
  
• Cove Fort
• Fort Deseret
  Fort Deseret
  Fort Deseret was built in 1865 during the Utah Black Hawk War to protect settlers in western Utah from the attacks of local Utes. Due to U.S. Army obligations in the Civil War, local settlers were advised to take measures to defend themselves, resulting in the construction of the fort. The...
  
  
• Fort Douglas
  Fort Douglas, Utah
  Camp Douglas was established in October 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. In 1878, the post was renamed Fort Douglas. The fort was officially...
  
  
• Fort Duchesne
  Fort Duchesne, Utah
  Fort Duchesne is a census-designated place in Uintah County, Utah, United States. The population was 621 at the 2000 census, a slight decrease from the 1990 figure of 655...
  
  
• Fort Utah
  Fort Utah
  Fort Utah was the original settlement at Provo, Utah, and was established March 12, 1849. The original settlers were President John S. Higbee, and about 30 families or 150 persons that were sent from Salt Lake City to Provo by President Brigham Young...
  
  

Vermont

• Orlando Bridgman's Fort
• Josiah Sartwell's Fort
• Fort Dummer
  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...
  
  
• Brattleboro Barracks
  Brattleboro Barracks
  The Vermont State Police is the state police agency for the U.S. State of Vermont, and has jurisdiction throughout the state. The Vermont Public Safety Commission directs policy and selects the Commander. The Commander is Colonel Thomas L'Esperance. The Vermont Public Safety Commissioner is Keith W...
  
  
• Fort Putney (also called Fort Hill)
• Fort Defiance
• Fort Rutland
• Fort Ranger
  Fort Ranger
  Fort Ranger is a historical fort located near Rutland, Vermont, USA which dates back to the colonial period. During the American Revolutionary war Whitcomb's Rangers were stationed there....
  
  
• Fort Warren
  Fort Warren (Vermont)
  Fort Warren was a fort located in Castleton, Vermont, from 1777-1779. American troops during the American Revolution retreated to Castleton after the loss of Ticonderoga). Fort Warren was then built as part of a line of forts used to defend Vermont....
  
  
• Fort Vengeance
• Fort Mott
  Fort Mott (Vermont)
  Fort Mott, located in Pittsford, Vermont, was a picket fort used by American militiamen during the American Revolutionary War. The fort was constructed by the citizens of Pittsford as a sanctuary in case of approaching British troops or hostile Native Americans. The Battle of Hubbardton was the...
  
  
• Fort Independence
  Fort Independence (Vermont)
  Fort Independence was a fort built in 1775 on Mount Independence next to Lake Champlain. It was placed directly across from Fort Ticonderoga to help fortify the approach to Albany. The intent was to provide a combined, two-shore defense to approaching British Forces...
  
   located on Mount Independence
  Mount Independence
  Mount Independence is a high hill on the Vermont side of Lake Champlain, in the northeastern United States.It is a Vermont State Historic Site and was the site of Fort Independence, an American revolutionary war fortification built opposite Fort Ticonderoga...
  
  
• Chimney Point
• Champlain Arsenal
  Champlain Arsenal
  -Origins:The Army established this federal arsenal in 1826 or 1828. It contained quarters for officers, barracks, a magazine, ordnance storehouses, and munitions storehouses.-Decommissioning:...
  
  
• Fort Cassin
• Fort New Haven
• Battery Redoubt
• Fort Frederick
  Fort Frederick (Vermont)
  Fort Frederick was a formidable blockhouse that was built at the Winooski River in 1773 by Ira Allen, one of the first English occupants to settle in the locality...
  
  
• Fort Ethan Allen
  Fort Ethan Allen
  Fort Ethan Allen was a U.S. army installation in Vermont, named for American Revolutionary War figure Ethan Allen. First serving as a cavalry post in 1894, today it is the center of a designated national historic district straddling the town line between Colchester and Essex...
  
  
• Fort Sainte Anne
  Fort Sainte Anne (Vermont)
  In 1666, the French built a fort to protect Canada from the Iroquois. The fort was dedicated to Saint Anne. Fort Sainte Anne was the most vulnerable to attacks by the Iroquois, because it was the last of five forts stretching along the Richelieu River going south...
  
  
• Fort Loyal
• Camp Baxter (also known as Baxter Barracks)
• Cooke's Hill Fort

Virginia

• Fort A.P. Hill
  Fort A.P. Hill
  Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, is an active duty installation of the United States Army, located near the town of Bowling Green, Virginia.Named for Confederate Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill, Fort A.P...
  
  
• 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 during the American Civil War.The fort...
  
  
• 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 during the American Civil War. The remains of the fort, a portion of the earthen walls, now overgrown, are...
  
  
• Fort Eustis
• Fort Hunt
  Fort Hunt Park
  Fort Hunt Park is a public park located in Fort Hunt, Fairfax County, Virginia. It is administered by the National Park Service as part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. The park preserves the remains of the eponymous Fort Hunt, portions of which date to the time of the Spanish-American War...
  
  
• Fort Lee
• Fort Loudoun
• Fort Monroe
  Fort Monroe
  Fort Monroe was a military installation in Hampton, Virginia—at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula...
  
  
• Fort Myer
  Fort Myer
  Fort Myer is a U.S. Army post adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. It is a small post by U.S...
  
  
• Fort Pickett
  Fort Pickett
  Fort Pickett, Virginia, is a Virginia Army National Guard installation, located near the town of Blackstone, Virginia. It is named for the United States Army officer and Confederate General George Pickett.- Beginnings :...
  
  
• Fort Richardson
  Fort Richardson (Arlington, Virginia)
  Fort Richardson was a detached redoubt constructed by the Union Army in September 1861 as part of the defense of Washington during the American Civil War....
  
  
• 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 during the American Civil War...
  
  
• Fort Story
  Fort Story
  Formerly a sub-installation of Fort Eustis, Fort Story is a sub-installation of the United States Navy and Little Creek Amphibious Base...
  
  
• Fort Ward
  Fort Ward (Virginia)
  Fort Ward is a former Union Army installation now located in the city of Alexandria in the U.S. state of Virginia. It was the fifth largest fort built to defend Washington, D.C. in the American Civil War...
  
  
• 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 ships’ ballast....
  
  

Virgin Islands (U.S.)

• Fort Christian
  Fort Christian
  Fort Christian is a Danish-built fort in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. It was constructed by the Danish government in the 17th century who occupied the small Caribbean island. As the oldest standing structure in the U.S. Virgin Islands, this fort has served as a town center, a government...
  
  
• Fort Frederik
  Fort Frederik
  Fort Frederik, also known as Frederiksfort, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark in Frederiksted, United States Virgin Islands. It was built between 1752 and 1760 by Denmark....
  
  
• Fort Segarra

Washington

• Fort Columbia, now a state park, one building open to the public
• 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 center, as the latter was deemed to be too far from the Columbia River...
  
  
• Fort Dent
  Fort Dent
  -History:Fort Dent, in Tukwila, Washington, was a blockhouse built on the orders of Territorial Governor, Isaac Stevens, in approximately 1860. It was located southeast of the confluence of the Black and Green Rivers, which join to form the Duwamish River. It was named for Frederick Dent, the...
  
  
• 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 neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The fort was included in the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure list.-History:...
  
  
• Fort Lewis
  Fort Lewis
  Joint Base Lewis-McChord is a United States military facility located south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Joint Base Garrison, Joint Base Lewis-McChord....
  
  
• Fort Nez Percés
  Fort Nez Percés
  Fort Nez Percés, sometimes also spelled Fort Nez Percé , named after the Nez Perce people and later known as Fort Walla Walla, was a fortified British fur trading post on the Columbia River on the territory of modern-day Wallula, Washington...
  
   (aka Old Fort Walla Walla)
• Fort Nisqually
  Fort Nisqually
  Fort Nisqually was an important fur trading and farming post of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Puget Sound area of what is now DuPont, Washington and was part of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department. Today it is a living history museum located in Tacoma, Washington, USA, within the...
  
  , rebuilt as a living history museum
• 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 and Columbia Rivers, in what is now Okanogan County, 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 Indian tribes...
  
  , now a state park, recreated and partially open to the public
• Fort Spokane
• Fort Townsend
• Fort Vancouver
  Fort Vancouver
  Fort Vancouver was a 19th century fur trading outpost along the Columbia River that served as the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company in the company's Columbia District...
  
  , fully recreated and open to the public
• 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 Walla Walla should be distinguished from Fort Nez Percés or Old Fort Walla Walla ....
  
  , museum and living history
  Living history
  Living history is an activity that incorporates historical tools, activities and dress into an interactive presentation that seeks to give observers and participants a sense of stepping back in time. Although it does not necessarily seek to reenact a specific event in history, living history is...
  
   pioneer village
• Fort Ward
  Fort Ward (Washington)
  Fort Ward is a former United States Army coastal artillery fort, and later, a Navy installation located on the southwest side of Bainbridge Island, Washington, along Rich Passage.-Early:...
  
  , now a state park, some bunkers remain
• Fort Worden
  Fort Worden
  Fort Worden and accompanying Fort Worden State Park are located in Port Townsend, along Admiralty Inlet in Washington. It is situated on 433 acres originally built as a United States Army installation for the protection of Puget Sound. Fort Worden was named after U.S...
  
  , now a state park, bunkers remain, one building partially open to the public

Washington, D.C.

• Fort DeRussy
  Fort DeRussy (Washington, D.C.)
  Fort DeRussy was an American Civil War-era fortification constructed in 1861 on a hilltop along the west bank of Rock Creek within Washington, D.C., as part of the defenses of the national capital...
  
  
• 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 Brig. Gen...
  
  
• Fort Totten
  Fort Totten, Washington, D.C.
  Fort Totten is a park and neighborhood in northeast Washington, D.C.. The neighborhood is bordered by N Capitol St to the west, Riggs Rd NE to the north, the Red Line tracks to the east, and Hawaii Ave NE to the south. It is named after a Civil War-era fort. The Fort Totten Metro station is named...
  
  

West Virginia

• Fort Ashby
  Fort Ashby
  Fort Ashby is a historic stockade fort located in Fort Ashby, West Virginia. A military installation constructed during the French and Indian War, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
  
  
• Fort Milroy
  White Top
  White Top is a knob and spur of Cheat Mountain in southeastern Randolph County, West Virginia, USA. Sitting at an elevation of , it is located just west of the Shavers Fork of Cheat River and Cheat Bridge. While White Top was originally crossed by the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, modern-day U.S...
  
  
• Fort Pearsall
  Fort Pearsall
  Fort Pearsall was an early frontier fort constructed in 1756 in Romney, West Virginia to protect local settlers in the South Branch Potomac River valley against Native American 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. National Historic Landmark in 1960....
  
  
• Fort Howard
• Fort McCoy
  Fort McCoy, Wisconsin
  Fort McCoy is an active United States Army installation. It is located on 60,000 acres between Sparta and Tomah, Wisconsin, in Monroe County...
  
  
• Fort Shelby/Fort McKay
  Fort Shelby (Wisconsin)
  Fort Shelby was a United States military installation in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, built in 1814. It was named for Isaac Shelby, Revolutionary War soldier and first governor of Kentucky. The fort was captured by the British during the Siege of Prairie du Chien in July 1814...
  
  
• 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 and Wisconsin Rivers in Portage, Wisconsin...
  
  

Wyoming

• Camp Augur
• Fort Bridger
  Fort Bridger
  Fort Bridger was originally a 19th century fur trading outpost established in 1842 on Blacks Fork of the Green River and later a vital resupply point for wagon trains on the Oregon Trail, California Trail and Mormon Trail. The Army established a military post here in 1858 during the Utah War until...
  
  
• Camp Brown
• Fort Caspar
  Fort Caspar
  Fort Caspar was a military post of the United States Army in present-day Wyoming, named after 2nd Lieutenant Caspar Collins, a U.S. Army officer who was killed in the 1865 Battle of the Platte Bridge Station against the Lakota and Cheyenne...
  
  
• 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 Army, and later the Air Force, located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The fort had been established in 1867 to protect workers for the...
  
  
• 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. It was located high on the bluffs on the south side of the North Platte River...
  
  
• Fort Francis E. Warren, now the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base
  Francis E. Warren Air Force Base
  Francis E. Warren Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is one of three strategic missile bases in the United States. It is named in honor of Francis E. Warren....
  
  
• Fort Fred Steele
• Fort Halleck
  Fort Halleck (Wyoming)
  Fort Halleck was a military outpost that existed in the 1860s along the Overland Trail and stage route in what is now the U.S state of Wyoming. The fort was established in 1862 to protect emigrant travelers and stages transporting mail between Kansas and Salt Lake City, Utah and named for Major...
  
  
• Fort Laramie
• 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. Construction began Friday July 13, 1866 by Companies A, C, E and H of the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry, under the direction of the regimental...
  
  
• Fort Platte
  Fort Platte
  Fort Platte was a stronghold and trading post established by Lancaster Lupton that was active between 1840 and 1846. The fort competed with Fort Laramie which was only one mile away and quickly surpassed it due to a superior supply system...
  
  
• 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 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. Originally named Fort John Buford, it was renamed Fort Sanders after General William P. Sanders who died at the Siege of Knoxville during the American Civil War. This was the...
  
  
• Camp Stambaugh
  Camp Stambaugh
  Camp Stambaugh was a U.S. army outpost in the Wyoming Territory located in the mining district near South Pass City and Atlantic City in the Wind River Mountains. It was established in June 1870 to stop hostilities between miners and Native Americans and named for First Lieutenant Charles B....
  
  
• Fort Washakie
  Fort Washakie
  Fort Washakie was a U.S Army fort in what is now the U.S. state of Wyoming. The fort was established in 1869 and named Camp Augur afterGeneral Christopher C. Augur, commander of the Department of the Platte. In 1870 the camp was renamed Camp Brown in honor of Captain Frederick H. Brown who was...
  
  
• Fort Yellowstone
  Fort Yellowstone
  -See also:* Grand Loop Road Historic District* Lake Fish Hatchery Historic District* Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District* North Entrance Road Historic District* Roosevelt Lodge Historic District* Old Faithful Historic District* US Post Office-Yellowstone Main...
  
  

Cities and areas with Fort in the name

• Fort Bridger, Wyoming
  Fort Bridger, Wyoming
  Fort Bridger is a census-designated place in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 400 at the 2000 census. The town takes its name from the eponymous Fort Bridger established in 1842.-Geography:...
  
  
• Fort Collins, Colorado
  Fort Collins, Colorado
  Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2010 census...
  
  
• Fort Garland, Colorado
  Fort Garland, Colorado
  Fort Garland is a census-designated place in Costilla County, Colorado, United States. The population was 433 at the 2010 census. The Fort Garland Post Office has the ZIP Code 81133.-General Information:...
  
  
• Fort Hunt, Virginia
  Fort Hunt, Virginia
  Fort Hunt is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. . It is one of the wealthiest places in the United States with a median household income surpassing that of Greenwich, Connecticut and Malibu, California, and is most famous for the site of former P.O...
  
  
• Fort Laramie, Wyoming
  Fort Laramie, Wyoming
  Fort Laramie is a town in Goshen County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 243 at the 2000 census. The town is named after historic Fort Laramie, an important stop on the Oregon, California and Mormon trails as well as a staging point for various military excursions...
  
  
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010...
  
  
• Fort Lawn, South Carolina
  Fort Lawn, South Carolina
  Fort Lawn is a town in Chester County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 864 at the 2000 census.-Geography and Climate:Fort Lawn is located at ....
  
  
• Fort Lee, New Jersey
  Fort Lee, New Jersey
  Fort Lee is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 35,345. Located atop the Hudson Palisades, the borough is the western terminus of the George Washington Bridge...
  
  
• Fort Lee, Virginia
  Fort Lee, Virginia
  Fort Lee is a census-designated place in Prince George County, Virginia, United States. The population was 7,269 at the 2000 census.Fort Lee is a United States Army post and headquarters of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command / Sustainment Center of Excellence , the U.S. Army Quartermaster...
  
  
• Fort Lupton, Colorado
  Fort Lupton, Colorado
  The City of Fort Lupton is a Statutory City located in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The population was 6,787 as of the 2000 census.-Geography:Fort Lupton is located at ....
  
  
• Fort Mill, South Carolina
  Fort Mill, South Carolina
  Fort Mill is a fast-growing suburban town in both York and Lancaster counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina, and a suburb of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rock Hill...
  
  
• Fort Myers, Florida
  Fort Myers, Florida
  Fort Myers is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. Its population was 62,298 in the 2010 census, a 29.23 percent increase over the 2000 figure....
  
  
• Fort Rock, Oregon
  Fort Rock, Oregon
  Fort Rock is an unincorporated community in Lake County, Oregon, United States, southeast of Fort Rock State Natural Area.The community of Fort Rock was named after the natural feature Fort Rock by the town's founder, Ray Nash. Fort Rock post office was established in 1908 under postmaster Josiah...
  
  
• Fort Thomas, Kentucky
  Fort Thomas, Kentucky
  Fort Thomas is a city in Campbell County, Kentucky, on the southern bank of the Ohio River and the site of an 1890 US Army post. The population was 16,325 at the 2010 census, making it the largest city in Campbell County and it is officially part of the Cincinnati – Northern Kentucky metropolitan...
  
  
• Fort Washakie, Wyoming
  Fort Washakie, Wyoming
  Fort Washakie is a census-designated place in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States, within the Wind River Indian Reservation and along U.S. Route 287...
  
  
• Fort Wayne, Indiana
  Fort Wayne, Indiana
  Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana...
  
  
• Fort Worth, Texas
  Fort Worth, Texas
  Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
  
  

See also

• :Category:Forts by country
• List of buildings
• List of castles
• List of fortifications
• Martello tower
  Martello tower
  Martello towers are small defensive forts built in several countries of the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the Napoleonic Wars onwards....
  
  
• List of United States Army installations
• List of tourist attractions worldwide