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Encyclopedia: List of forts (5965 words) |
 | Fort Delimara is a fortification on the island of Malta. |
| Fort Mackinac painting Fort Mackinac was a military outpost garrisoned from the late 18th century to the late 19th century on Mackinac Island in the U.S. state of Michigan. |
| Fort 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. |
| Portwrinkle to Plymouth (5186 words) |
| Cawsand and Kingsand together form the last example of Cornish “quart in a pint pot” architechture, in which cottages are crammed and shoehorned together among steep and narrow lanes. |
| On the eastern end of the Hoe is the Citadel, an imposing military fort built by Charles II in the aftermath of the civil war. |
| There are several other forts in and around Plymouth, commissioned and built by various monarchs and governments through the ages – not one of them has ever fired a gun in anger and those built in the Victoian era by Palmerston as a defence against the French are now collectively known as Palmerston’s Follies. |
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