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* Fort Blockhouse and Submarine Mining on the Fort Gilkicker website
* Fort Gilkicker
A view from the parade at Fort Gilkicker showing the rear of the gun casemates
Fort Gilkicker is a historic Palmerston fort built at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire to dominate the key anchorage of Spithead.
The First Fort on Gilkicker Point was constructed as an auxiliary battery to Fort Monckton and consisted of an earthen rampart for eleven guns firing through embrasures cut through the parapets.
The current Fort Gilkicker was constructed between the years 1863 and 1869 at Stokes Bay, Gosport.
The fort was begun by a contractor who failed in November 1863 early in the stages of the construction and a renowned civil engineer, John Towlerton Leather who was already involved in the construction of the great sea forts at nearby Spithead, was asked to complete the Fort at Gilkicker.
The new Fort Gilkicker was conceived as a curvilinier fort for twenty six guns on one level firing through armoured embrasures with a barrack closing the rear.
The design for the fort was altered slightly and it was completed in 1871 for twenty two guns in casemates with five heavier guns in open positions on the roof. The estimated cost of Fort Gilkicker in 1869 was £ 61, 395, the actual cost on completion being £ 58, 766.
A plan of the New Fort Gilkicker showing the original layout of the gun casemates with the barrack block behind
Plan of Fort Gilkicker in 1906 showing the final Breech Loading armament
Trinity House had a small observation post on Fort Gilkicker after 1939.
* Fort Gilkicker
* Victorian Forts, Fort Gilkicker
To the east of Stokes Bay is Fort Gilkicker, which was built in 1871 to guard the headland and the western approaches to Portsmouth Harbour and housed 22 gun emplacements.

Fort and Solent
The process of coastal change is still continuing, with the soft cliffs on some parts of the Solent, such as Fort Victoria, constantly eroding, whilst other parts, such as Ryde Sands, accreting.
Spitbank is smaller than the two main Solent forts, Horse Sand Fort and No Man's Land Fort.
St Helens Fort is a sea fort in the Solent close in to the Isle of Wight, one of the Palmerston Forts near Portsmouth.
No Man's Land Fort was a fort built in the Solent as part of the Palmerston Forts.
Horse Sand Fort is one of the larger Royal Commission sea forts in the Solent off Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
The Fort provides easy access to the beach, ( although swimming is not advised in the fast-flowing channel ) and excellent views of the Solent, Hurst Castle, and passing shipping.
* Fort Brockhurst and the Gomer-Elson Forts, David Moore, Solent Papers No. 6, pub.

Fort and Papers
Fort Pitt is also the location of the fictional duel between Mr. Tracy Tupman and Dr. Slammer in the Charles Dickens novel The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
* Fort Worth Public Library, Stetson Family Papers
This included the Patty Hearst trial, the Sirhan Sirhan trial, the Charles Manson trial, the trials of the Black Panthers, including Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver and David Hilliard, the trials of Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee, and the trials of the Soledad Brothers, the San Quentin Six, Mass Murderer Juan Corona, John Linley Frazier, the Presidio Mutiny Court-Martial at Fort Ord, the Billy Dean Smith Court-Martial, Inez Garcia ( second trial ), Bill and Emily Harris ( Symbionese Liberation Army ), Russell Little and Joseph Remiro ( Murder of Marcus Foster / Symbionese Liberation Army ), Wendy Yoshimura, Camarillo State Hospital Grand Jury Hearings, the Hell's Angels, Alioto-Look Magazine Libel Trial, Alioto Conflict of Interest Trial, the Bonanno Brothers, Stephanie Kline, Larry Layton, Dan White, San Francisco Proposition Hearings, Sara Jane Moore, and Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo / Pentagon Papers.

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D. Bayless Lodge No. 359 Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a member of the Shriners ; he received the honorary 33rd degree in 1995.
In 2006, Money ranked Fort Collins as the best place to live in America, proclaiming that " great schools, low crime, good jobs in a high-tech economy and a fantastic outdoor life make Fort Collins No. 1.
" Palmetto Traction: Electric Railways of South Carolina " ( No ISBN ) Forty Fort ( PA ), US: Harold E. Cox.
The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands: An Archaeological Study of Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, Cultural Resources Survey Program Series No. 2, New York State Museum.
* Papewes ( Papaway-‘ Lucky Man ’, Chief of the Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), born in the late 1830s near Fort Pitt, was in the 1870s a leader of Mistahimaskwa ´ s Plains River Cree, as the bison disappeared, signed along with Little Pine on the 2nd July 1879 for the 470 members of his tribal group an annex to the Agreement No. 6 at Fort Walsh, in vain he asked for a reserve in the Cypress Hills and the Buffalo Lake, so many members went back to Mistahimaskwa (" Big Bear ") or joined Minahikosis (" Little Pine "), Papewes asked 1884 in vain a reserve adjacent to the reserves of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker '), Minahikosis and Mistahimaskwa, during the rebellion of 1885 were the two groups of Papewes and Minahikosis scattered and some of their members fled in the U. S., 1886 settled the remaining members of the two groups in the Little Pine's reserve died 1901 nahe Fort Assiniboine, Montana )
Mass production of airplanes at Aircraft Plant No. 4, near Fort Worth, Texas.
Canadian Battle Series No. 10: The Battles of Ridgeway and Fort Erie, 1866.
* Fort Jackson – ( aka Fort Garibaldi, Main Fort, Fort Milroy, Battery No. 2 )
* Fort Alabama – ( aka Star Fort, Battery No. 3 )
* Fort Collier – ( aka Battery No. 10 )
* Louisiana Heights – ( aka the combination of West Fort or Battery No. 5 and Battery No. 6 )
" In 1965 the line reintroduced summer steam passenger service between Fort Bragg and Willits with Baldwin-built steam locomotive No. 45, calling the colorful train " The Super Skunk.
No. 45 continues to power excursion trains from Fort Bragg as far as Northspur, the CWR's midpoint, on selected weekends summer to early autumn.
Permanent historic occupation of the islands began in 1839, when the United States Army, led by General Zachary Taylor, established " Fort No. 4 ", which served as a depot and included a hospital, on Depot Key ( later known as Atsena Otie Key ) during the Second Seminole War.
No colleges or universities are present in this small community, but the town lies within driving distance to Arlington and the rest of the Dallas / Fort Worth metropolitan area, which contains a number of colleges and universities including the University of Texas at Arlington and the Tarrant County College system.
No public transportation operates in Watauga and — like all other cities in Tarrant County except for Richland Hills — it is not a member of the Fort Worth Transportation Authority ( The T ), having chosen to direct local sales tax option funds elsewhere.
No alliances were made between the tribes in the east and the tribes in the west, and Fort Alden was abandoned ( along with other forts built around this time ).

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