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| [[Category:All]]
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| [[Category:Rhode Island Forts]]
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| [[Image:FortAdamsModern RI.jpg|thumb|400px|left|Fort Adams, RI]]
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| '''Fort Adams (1793-1946)''' - Fort Adams was built on the site of an earlier Patriot and French fort from 1780. Rebuilt in 1798 with 17 guns by Major [[Louis Tousard]], it was named for President [[John Adams]] and opened on 4 Jul 1799.
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| The current structure was built beginning in 1824 under the supervision of engineers, Lt. Andrew Talcott and Ltc. Joseph Totten. The Outer Redoubt was built in 1825.
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| Endicott era batteries on the west side include
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| * Battery Belton (1907-1925)
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| * Battery Bankhead (1907-1913)
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| * Battery Reilly (1899-1917)
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| * Battery Talbot (1899-1917)
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| * Battery Edgerton (1898-1943)
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| * Battery Greene (1898-1943), which was renamed Battery Gilmore in 1940
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| * Unnamed battery from 1898 near Battery Bankhead
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| * Mobile 90mm guns were also here in WWII.
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| [[Image:FortAdamsPlan RI.gif|thumb|250px|right|Fort Adams Plan]]
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| '''Location:'''
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| {{Mapit-US-cityscale|47.6570|-122.4182}}
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| '''Links:'''
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| * [http://www.riparks.com/fortadamshistory.htm History]
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| * [http://www.fortadams.org/ Site]
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| '''Visited:''' No
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