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.
It was completed by 1856, but like the American Third System forts it resembles in miniature, it would have suffered badly from rifled gunfire, so the Royal Commission enhanced it with batteries on the cliffs above. The fort is in private ownership and not open to the public, and indeed there is no public access even to the cliff tops which overlook it. It is most easily viewed from the sea, or from Hurst Castle.
The fort itself has been converted into luxury flats, and the battery, which is in declining condition due to neglect and coastal erosion, is part of a chalet estate.
Albert Alonzo "Doc" Ames (January 18, 1842–November 16, 1911) held several terms as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the late 19th century and very early 20th century.
Ames was born in Garden Prairie in Boone County, Illinois, but left the area at age ten when his father, Dr. Alfred Elisha Ames, moved his family to Fort Snelling in Minnesota Territory.
Albert attended local public schools, which were partially run by the federal government, and eventually began working for a local newspaper before moving on to study medicine.
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