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Fort and Brockhurst
Image: Fort Brockhurst 4-Gosport-geograph. org. uk-693238. jpg | Fort Brockhurst a mid-19th century polygonal fort in Hampshire, England
* Fort Brockhurst
After the Gosport Advanced Line of Fort Brockhurst, Fort Elson, Fort Rowner, Fort Grange and Fort Gomer had been approved by the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom a decision was made to build an outer line of three more forts two miles in advance of the Gosport Advanced Line.
The film briefly uses several railway locations including the level crossing at Fort Brockhurst on the ( by then ' goods only ') Gosport branch in Hampshire.

Fort and Forts
Forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point ( Fort St. Frederic ) controlled passage of the lake in colonial times.
In 1943, during World War II, HM Fort Roughs was constructed by the United Kingdom as one of the Maunsell Forts, primarily for defence against German mine-laying aircraft that might be targeting the estuaries that were part of vital shipping lanes ; it comprised a floating pontoon base with a superstructure of two hollow towers joined by a deck upon which other structures could be added.
Its located between two US Army Forts, Fort Lee to its East and Fort Pickett to its West.
* Fort Foster Park ( American Forts Network )
* Fort McClary ( American Forts Network )
Forts Lucas and Morrison were garrisoned during the war by the Massachusetts colonial militia, and there is also some evidence that British royal troops used Fort Morrison briefly.
* Fort Dearborn from American Forts Network
File: Forts at Forks of Ohio. png | Fort Duquesne & Fort Pitt Location
World War II brought establishment or reactivatation of military bases around Narragansett Bay, including Forts Getty and Wetherill on Conanicut Island, Fort Greble on Dutch Island, a torpedo factory on Goat Island and a torpedo station on Gould Island.
Fort Garry, along with the sites of nearby Fort Rouge and Fort Gibraltar, were collectively designated a National Historic Site in 1924 as part of the " Forts Rouge, Garry, and Gibraltar National Historic Site of Canada ".
The book was adapted into the 2002 film We Were Soldiers, which was filmed at Forts Benning and Hunter Liggett, depicting Moore's command of 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, at Fort Benning and in the Battle of Ia Drang.
Newhaven Fort, one of the Palmerston Forts, was built on Castle Hill on the recommendation of the 1859 Royal Commission to defend the growing harbour It was the largest defence work ever built in Sussex and is now open as a museum.
Holbrook served with the 4th Cavalry Brigade at Fort Walla Walla, Washington, until December 22, 1896, and at Boise Barracks, Forts Sherman and Wardner, Idaho, until May 1899.
The Humber Forts are two large fortifications in the mouth of the Humber estuary in northern England: Haile Sand Fort () and Bull Sand Fort ().
* Fort Constitution from American Forts Network
File: The Lahore Forts Alamgiri Gate Picture2 taken at night-July 20 2005. jpg | Lahore Fort at night-time.
6 July 1922: The ' 18 of the Copacabana Fort revolt ' on their way to confront army loyalistsTheir early-morning rebellion was taken up by a garrison in São Paulo but not by others ; only " scattered units around Rio de Janeiro revolted: the Escola Militar, some elements of the First Infantry Regiment and the Battalion of Engineers, and the garrisons of Forts Copacabana and Vigia.
Fort Donelson National Battlefield preserves Fort Donelson and Fort Heiman, two sites of the American Civil War Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, in which Union Army Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote captured three Confederate forts and opened two rivers, the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River, to control by the Union Navy.

Fort and David
In March 1865, while Lincoln met at City Point with Grant, Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter, Union forces finally took Petersburg and then captured Richmond in April, after an unsuccessful Confederate assault on Fort Stedman.
* July 14 — David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Columbia River, finding Fort Astoria under construction.
The county is home to Catoctin Mountain Park ( encompassing the presidential retreat Camp David ) and to the U. S. Army's Fort Detrick.
In August 1811, three months after Fort Astor was established, David Thompson and his team of British North West Company explorers came floating down the Columbia to Fort Astoria.
The French now turned to the remaining British settlement in the Carnatic, Fort St David at Cuddalore, which was dangerously close to the main French settlement of Pondicherry.
Early in 1747 a second expedition laid siege to Fort St David but withdrew on the arrival of a British naval squadron in March.
* St. David Pendleton Oakerhater, Okuhhatuh or " Making Medicine ," Southern Cheyenne ( 1847 – 1931 ), veteran of the Red River War, Fort Marion prisoner of war, ledger artist, deacon of Whirlwind Mission, sun dancer, canonized saint in the Episcopal Church
* Fort Early: Named after General Jubal Anderson Early, whose Confederate troops defended the city against invasion by Union General David Hunter.
On February 18, 1861, on orders from United States Army General David E. Twiggs, Fort Clark was surrendered to the Texas Commission.
The British took the missionaries David Zeisberger and John Heckewelder under guard back to Fort Detroit, where the two men were tried ( but eventually acquitted ) on charges of treason against the British Crown.
The early St. David settlers played an important role in establishing the subsequent surrounding settlements, such as Fort Huachuca and Tombstone, as they did much of the logging in the Huachuca Mountains to provide lumber for the construction of those locations.
*" Jeffersontown: Huge Family Farms, Buffalo, Linn Station Fort Marked Landscape ; Diseases Delayed Growth " — Article by M. David Goodwin of The Courier-Journal
* Peter David ( born 1956 in Fort Meade ), science fiction / fantasy author known for his comic book and Star Trek novel work .< font color =" blue ">( B )</ font >
Smithsburg is close to Fort Ritchie army base and just west of the presidential retreat Camp David.
In July 1811 David Thompson of the NWC voyaged down the Columbia River, reaching the partially constructed Fort Astoria of the American rival Pacific Fur Company.
Microsoft customer service representatives refused to believe that Fort Gay existed, and it took an appeal from Mayor David Thompson and media coverage for the issue to be corrected.
Other Registered Historic Places include the Fort Atkinson Water Tower, Panther Intaglio Effigy Mound, David W. and Jane Curtis House, Hoard's Dairyman Farm and Jones Dairy Farm.
Disguising themselves as natives, Clive and three others eluded their inattentive sentry, slipped out of the fort, and made their way to Fort St. David ( the British post at Cuddalore ), some to the south.
Clive was, however recognized for his contribution in the defence of Fort St. David, where the French assault on 11 March 1747 was repulsed with the assistance of the Nawab of the Carnatic, and was given a commission as ensign.
In the conflict, Clive's bravery came to the attention Major Stringer Lawrence, who arrived in 1748 to take command of the British troops at Fort St. David.
Madras and Fort St David could supply him with only 200 Europeans, 300 sepoys, and three small cannon ; furthermore, of the eight officers who led them, four were civilians like Clive, and six had never been in action.
In July 1755, Clive returned to India to act as deputy governor of Fort St. David at Cuddalore.
Following this action Clive headed to his post at Fort St. David and it was there he received news of twin disasters for the English.
The term " urban survival syndrome " was first used in 1994 in a Fort Worth, Texas murder case in which two defense attorneys, David Bays and Bill Lane, defended Daimion Osby, their 17-year-old black client, who had shot and killed two unarmed men in a parking lot and was on trial on two counts of first degree murder.

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