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...ivil War]] by Colonel [[Andrew Talcott]], CSA {{Cullum|181}}, on the James River in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Named for Confederate Major General [[Be |width="50%"|[[File:Shell House.jpg|350px|thumb|left|Fort Huger Shell House]] ...

...scrapping on 30 Sep 1918 and ordered scrapped 26 May 1920 as a part of the post-war disarmament program. The eight scrapped mortars were replaced with four Image:Fort Caswell Battery Bagely Shell Rm - 4.jpg|Battery Bagley Shell Room Entrances ...

...ort Pepperrell]] (1745-1746), and thereafter known as [[Fort Oswego]]. The post was destroyed by a large French force under General Montcalm in 1756 and no The British first built a trading post at this site in 1722 but fortified it with a stone blockhouse in 1727 after ...

...the [[U.S. Civil War]] and in 1866 still had a garrison of 205 men at the post. but by 1872 it had only a caretaker presence. ...lding coastal defenses. The consensus among the inspectors who visited the post in the 1870s and 1880s was that it had neither the armament nor the quarter ...

[[Image:Fort Washington Across River - 04 Blog.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Fort Washington from Fort Hunt - 2009]] ...onstruct a new defense system. Funds for the project was withdrawn and the post was abandoned for the next twenty years. ...

...S. Volunteers, who died 29 Jul 1863, of wounds received in action at Stone River, Tennessee, 31 Dec 1862, during the [[U.S. Civil War]]. Battery constructio ...ere moved from the magazine to the raised gun loading platform by hand. No shell or powder hoists were provided. Electrical power was furnished by the empla ...

...}, [[4th U.S. Infantry]], who was killed in action against Indians at Milk River, Colorado, 29 Sep 1879. Battery construction started in 1900, was completed ...n emplacements had an associated magazine and bomb proof located below. No shell or powder hoists were provided. An observation station was built into each ...

A concrete [[Endicott Period]] battery facing the mouth of the Columbia River with two, 10" rifles on disappearing carriages. The battery was unusual in ...trance Command Post ([[HECP]]) for controlling the defense of the Columbia River entrance. After the war in 1946-47, the rifles and carriages were scrapped. ...

|colspan="2"|[[File:Shell burst near Fort Steele.jpeg|795px|thumb|center|Fort Steele during the U.S. ...struction of the fort was supervised by retired Captain John L'Engle. That post was named Fort Steele after the company commander, Captain Holmes Steele. S ...

General Wool, while personally supervising matters on the Columbia River, directed a redistribution to some extent of the troops in the district, an When I arrived I found that the Rogue River Indians had just been placed upon the reservation, and subsequently the Coq ...

...n for territory gained in the Austrian Netherlands and the British trading post at Madras in India. Maurepas, the ministre de la marine, was determined to ...hold of Québec. Before an invasion force could be sent up the St. Lawrence River, however, Louisbourg — guarding the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence — ...