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Fort Drum (1470 words) |
 | Fort Drum was located on El Fraile Island, about 7500 yards south of Caballo Island and by virtue of its peculiar character, a static battleship in the southern approaches to Manila Bay, it was the most unique of the Harbor Defense forts. |
| The concept that forts could be attacked from the air would not be recognized for decades yet, and the coastal defense forts of Manila Bay, notably Corregidor, being entirely open to the skies, would suffer extensively from the air in later decades. |
| At Fort Drum one 240-mm shell penetrated the casemate shield at Battery Roberts disabling one gun temporarily. |
| Fort Mitchell: The Written Record (3080 words) |
| By 1825 Thomas Crowell had become the proprietor of a tavern at Fort Mitchell and it was there that the Marquis de Lafayette was entertained upon his visit to the fort in the spring of 1825. |
| The Treaty of Fort Jackson, signed in August 1814, provided that the Creek Indians were to be settled in an area delineated by the Line Creek on the west and the Chattahoochee River on the east. |
| Indians were being brought to the fort are to be prepared for transport to the west in accordance with the Indian Removal Bill of 1830. |
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