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.

Two ships of the United States Navy were named Ethan Allen in his honor, as were two 19th-century fortifications: a Civil War fort in Arlington, Virginia and a cavalry outpost in Colchester and Essex, Vermont.

Both the fort and the river were named after the sponsor of the expedition, Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

The castle was named Hammaburg, burg meaning castle or fort.

It was Siegfried I, Count of Ardennes who traded some of his ancestral lands with the monks of the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier in 963 for an ancient, supposedly Roman, fort named Lucilinburhuc.

A fort, originally named the Castle of St John, was completed within a month and further houses were built further up the valley.

Yaroslav I the Wise, Prince of Kiev, raided Tartu that year, built his own fort there, and named it Yuryev ( literally " Yury's " – Yury ( a Russified form of George ) being Yaroslav's Christian name ).

The fort is named Fort Dobbs in honor of North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs, who persuaded the North Carolina legislature to fund the construction a year earlier.

They built a fort on the present site of the city of Wilmington, which they named Fort Christina, after Queen Christina of Sweden.

Also a small fort was built at the tip of the peninsula where the city of Valletta now stands and was named Fort St. Elmo.

" The fort was named in honor of Henry Dearborn, then United States Secretary of War.

The fort was named Fort Dearborn after Henry Dearborn, the Secretary of War, who had commissioned its construction.

In 1754, a blockhouse named Fort Western ( now the oldest wooden fort in America ), was built at Cushnoc on the eastern bank.

Following the French victory, Montcalm, anticipating further British attacks, ordered additional work on the defenses, including the construction of the Germain and Pontleroy redoubts ( named for the engineers under whose direction they were constructed ) to the northeast of the fort.

The Ticonderoga pencil, manufactured by the Dixon Ticonderoga Corporation, is named for the fort.

This treaty was named for the nearest military fort, which was Fort Martin Scott.

The fort was named after the local tribe whom Khabarov's people called " Achans ".

Mir Muhammad Shah also built a new fort named Sarai Bahadur.

The fort was named Krasny Yar () after the Yarin ( a dialect of Khakas ) name of the place it was built, Kyzyl Char (' red steep-riverbank '), which was translated as Krasny Yar ( using the old meaning of krasny ).

Fort Myers, built in 1850 as a military fort to fend off Seminole Indians that were massacring the area ’ s few settlers, was named after Col. Abraham C. Myers, who was stationed in Florida for seven years and was the son-in-law of the fort ’ s establisher and commander.

According to the Geographical Dictionary of Poland published by Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, the city's predecessor was an early medieval Slavic settlement, the city website states it was named Lasogród (" forest castle "), whose inhabitants engaged in hunting, honey gathering, and later agriculture ; Lasogród lated developed into a defensive fort, the remains of which were destroyed in the 19th century during expansion of the city.

The area was given several names by the Spanish including Rio de Ays ( later anglicized to Indian River ) as well as Santa Lucia, named after the short-lived late 16th-century Spanish fort that bore its name farther south.

On the east shore of the St. Johns River in Volusia, in present day Debary, General Winfield Scott established a fort / depot in 1836 named Fort Florida.

A fort, named Fort Coligny, was built to protect them from attack from the Portuguese troops and Brazilian Native Americans.