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List of forts


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, United States.

St Ann's Fort

Antwerp (1914, internal defenses)

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

Namur (1914, clockwise from E, right bank of Meuse River)

Bermuda had around 90 coastal defense scattered all over the island chain. Early colonial defense works constructed before the 19th century were primarily small coastal batteries built of stone having anywhere from two to ten guns. Some of these early forts and batteries are the oldest standing masonry forts in the new world. Later forts constructed by the royal engineers were much larger and more complex.

Many places in Canada which bear the name "Fort" were never military establishments. Many were simply , log enclosures for fur trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company or the North West Company. Many in the West were also originally police outposts set up by the North-West Mounted Police prior to European-Canadian settlement of the area. See also Category: Forts in Canada

All forts in Macau were built during or used during Portuguese rule:

Kaunas Fortress fortifications (listed in order of number)

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


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