Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.

( the fort was sacked by the Mongols led by Hulagu ).

The fort was partially destroyed by the Dutch in the mid 17th century, rebuilt, then destroyed again in 1776 by an earthquake.

From his fort at Athelney, an island in the marshes near North Petherton, Alfred was able to mount an effective resistance movement, rallying the local militias from Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

Tārāgaṛh Fort, the fort guarding Ajmer, was the seat of the Chauhān rulers.

When it fell to the British Raj, the fort was dismantled on the orders of Lord William Bentinck and was converted into a sanatorium for the British troops stationed at the garrison town of Nasirabad.

Gobannium was a Roman fort guarding the road along the valley of the River Usk which linked the legionary fortress of Burrium ( Usk ) and later Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, ( Caerleon ) in the south with Y Gaer, Brecon and Mid Wales.

Initially built from wood, the fort was eventually rebuilt in stone.

Crassus laid siege to fort, but had to enlist the assistance of Rholes, the Getan petty king to dislodge them, for which service Rholes was granted the title of socius et amicus populi Romani (" ally and friend of the Roman people ").

The fort was garrisoned by French soldiers and armed with at least four cannon and two heavy mortars.

Ten minutes after the French opened fire Goliath, ignoring fire from the fort to starboard and from Guerrier to port, most of which was too high to trouble the ship, crossed the head of the French line.

The Great Uprising of 1598 swept all Spanish presence south of the Bío-Bío River except Chiloé ( and Valdivia which was decades later reestablished as a fort ), and the great river became the frontier line between Mapuche lands and the Spanish realm.

The fort was partially overrun after a month-long siege, but the attackers were ultimately repelled after the arrival of British reinforcements from Halifax.

Originally Dartmouth's only wharf was Bayard's Cove, a relatively small but picturesque area protected by a fort at the southern end of the town.

The fort was built by Royalist occupation forces in c. 1643 to the south east of the town, with a similar fort at Mount Ridley on the opposite slopes of what is now Kingswear.

In a private discussion, Allen and Arnold reached an accommodation, the essence of which was that Arnold and Allen would both be at the front of the troops when the attack on the fort was made.

Stalling for time, he demanded to know by what authority the fort was being entered.

Others report that the same fort was attacked by the infidels and then was moved to the place where it is now situated, and the city gathered around it.

In 1726, the town of the fort was raised to the condition of village.

The fort was decommissioned in 1867.

The fort was towed to a position above the Rough Sands sandbar, where its base was deliberately flooded to allow it to sink to its final resting place on the sandbar.

A number of villages along the Angara and its tributaries ( including the historic fort of Ilimsk on the Ilim ), as well as numerous agricultural areas in the river valley, were flooded by these reservoirs.

The remaining archeological sites have been flooded by Lake Nasser, among others the Buhen fort.

The besieging army flooded the city, and then started its assault on the fort.

Immediately surrounding the fort was a moat which could be flooded to a depth of a foot during high-tide with seawater from Matanzas Bay prior to an attack via the use of floodgates built into the seawall.

The fort is still in fair condition, however the magazine level seems to have been deliberately flooded to minimise access and vandalism.

On 11 February 1943 the fort was towed by three tugs to a location on Rough Sands where its base was intentionally flooded so that it sank to a resting place on the sandbar.

In April 1864 torrential rains flooded the fort ’ s magazines, which led the Army to move all the powder and ammunition to Fort McHenry.

The difficulties caused by the flooded state of the huge river many miles in width at that season and the strenuous resistance of a strongly posted garrison were overcome and the fort was captured by the gallantry of the detachment appointed by Akbar to the duty.

By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen Taytu Betul, had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ( 6 – 21 January 1896 ), trying in vain to storm the fort on several occasions, until the Italians surrendered with permission from the Italian Headquarters.

In 1605, armed Dutch merchants captured the Portuguese fort at Amboyna in the Moluccas, which was developed into the first secure base of the company.

" Mozambique " first described a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay, then the fort and town on that island, São Sebastião de Moçambique, and later extended to the whole of the Portuguese colonies on the east coast of Africa.

Choosing what was possibly the continent's worst site for the first Spanish settlement in South America, in February 1536 Mendoza built a fort at a poor anchorage on the southern side of the Plata estuary on an inhospitable, windswept, dead-level plain where not a tree or shrub grew.

* 1529 – The Spanish fort Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.

Motoyasu fought his first battle at the Siege of Terabe and later succeeded in delivering supplies to a border fort through a bold night attack.

The fort was the first non-Native American community in the California Central Valley.

The first, a small fort was probably built by the 1st Cohort of Tungrians about 85 AD.

The fort is the first European settlement in present day North Carolina.

The first known settlement at Monmouth was the small Roman fort of Blestium, one of a network of military bases established on the frontiers of the Roman occupation.

The Pell family, a politically important clan with influence throughout American history ( from William C. C. Claiborne, the first Governor of Louisiana, to a Senator from Rhode Island, Claiborne Pell ), restored the fort in 1909 and formally opened it to the public.

Fort Nisqually was built near the present town of DuPont, Washington and was the first Hudson's Bay Company fort on Puget Sound.

The army maintained fort was the first chance on the trail to buy emergency supplies, do repairs, get medical aid, or mail a letter.

The first German raiding party to enter the fort was led by Leutnant Eugen Radtke, Hauptmann Hans Joachim Haupt and Oberleutnant Cordt von Brandis ( after the war, a certain Feldwebel Kunze claimed to have been first to enter Fort Douaumont but this was never confirmed officially ).

Whereas the first Dutch fort in Asia was built in 1600 ( in present-day Indonesia ), the first forts and settlements on the Essequibo river in Guyana and on the Amazon date from the 1590s.

Carbonized chickpeas have been found at the Roman legion fort at Neuss ( Novaesium ), Germany in layers from the first century CE, along with rice.

The first Russian to reach the area was Ivan Bukholts who ascended the Irtysh to build a fort and search for gold.

During the siege of Pipers fort, in the first novel, Flashman cowered weeping in his bed at the start of the final assault ; the only witness to this died before relief came.

One of the first signs that a big rebellion was building was the attack on the fort at Tucapel, where they managed to destroy the fortress on December 2, 1553.

In 1680, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle built the first fort in Illinois, Ft. St. Louis, at Starved Rock.

Merlin traces his way back to his first confrontation with Jasra, where he finds himself at a magical fort, the Keep of the Four Worlds, a nexus of magical energies which has recently fallen under the control of a mysterious blue-masked sorcerer calling himself " Mask ", who seems to have a vendetta against Merlin.

It became a bishopric in the fourth century, and the hill fort of the Celtic Cavares was renamed for Saint Eutrope, the first bishop of Saintes.