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| x Bradleys Head Fortification Complex |
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The Bradleys Head Fortification Complex is a small fort located on the northern side of Taronga Park Zoo that formed part of a total defence system for Sydney Harbour and recalls a period when the colony of New South Wales became increasingly aware...
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| x Middle Head Fortifications |
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The Middle Head Fortification is located at the end of Old Fort Road, Middle Head, Mosman New South Wales. The fortifications at Middle Head formed part of Sydney Harbour's defences.
The site on which the fortifications are built includes all of the...
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| x Lower Georges Heights Commanding Position |
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The Lower Georges Heights Commanding Position is located in the urban locality of Georges Heights, New South Wales in the suburb of Mosman, on the shores of Port Jackson, Sydney, Australia. The Lower Georges Heights Commanding Position was...
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| x Georges Head Battery |
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The Georges Head Battery is located on Georges Head, in the suburb of Mosman in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Georges Head battery is one of three forts in the area that were built for the purpose of defending the outer harbour. The fort...
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| x Admiralty House, Sydney |
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Admiralty House is the official Sydney residence of the Governor-General of Australia. It is located in Kirribilli, on the northern foreshore of Sydney Harbour adjacent to Kirribilli House, which is the Sydney residence of the Prime Minister. The...
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| x Fort Denison, New South Wales |
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Fort Denison is a former penal site and defensive facility occupying a small island located north of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
Prior to European settlement, the island had the Aboriginal name Mat-te...
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| x Fort Macquarie |
Fort Macquarie was a square castellated battlement fort built at Bennelong Point, Sydney, Australia, where the Sydney Opera House now stands.
A half moon battery on the east point of Bennelong Point was constructed in May 1798 when the ship HMS...
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| x Shark Point Battery |
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The Shark Point Battery is a small fort, located on the shores of Sydney Harbour in the eastern Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, New South Wales Australia.
The land on Shark Point was resumed from its private owners and construction of the battery began...
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| x Ben Buckler Gun Battery, North Bondi |
The Ben Buckler Gun Battery is a fortified gun emplacement of the late-Victorian period located in the Northern Bondi locality of Ben Buckler, Sydney Australia.
The Ben Buckler Gun Battery was constructed in 1892 as one of a set of three coastal...
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| x Bare Island |
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Bare Island is a small island in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located about 16km south east of the Sydney central business district, close to the northern headland of Botany Bay.
Bare Island is connected by...
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| x Fort Banks |
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Fort Banks (Eastern Command Fixed Defences) is an old World War II bunker and fortification complex that was used to protect the approaches to Botany Bay. The fortification is located north of Cape Banks in La Perouse, New South Wales Australia....
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| x Fort Lytton National Park |
Fort Lytton is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 13 km northeast of Brisbane. It is located near the mouth of the Brisbane River on the southern bank.
Fort Lytton is an important historical site. It is a pentagonal fortress hidden behind...
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| x Fort Philip, Sydney |
Fort Philip was a citadel style fort constructed as part of the first defensive works of the penal settlement of Sydney, Australia.
Governor Hunter ordered a fort to be built on the site of Windmill Hill to defend the colony from rebellious convicts...
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| x Fort Queenscliff |
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Fort Queenscliff, in Victoria, Australia, dates from 1860 when an open battery was constructed on Shortland's Bluff to defend the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. The Fort, which underwent major redevelopment in the late 1870s and 1880s, became the...
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| x Henry Head Battery |
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The Henry Head Battery is located on the northern side of the entrance to Botany Bay at Henry Head, La Perouse, New South Wales, Australia.
Constructed between 1892 - 1895 with 2 BL 6-inch Mk V disappearing guns, the fort operated until 1910, upon...
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| x South Channel Fort |
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South Channel Fort 38°18′24″S 144°48′5″E / 38.30667°S 144.80139°E / -38.30667; 144.80139 is a 0.7 ha artificial island in southern Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, 6 km north-east of the town of Sorrento. It was part of a network of...
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| x Qal'at al-Bahrain |
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Qal`at al-Bahrain (Arabic: قلعة البحرين meaning Bahrain Castle) is an archaeological site located in Bahrain. It is composed of an artificial mound created by human inhabitants from 2300 BC up to the 1700's. Among other things, it was once the...
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| x Arad Fort |
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Arad Fort (Arabic: قلعة عراد; transliterated: Qal'at 'Arad) is a 15th century fort in Arad, Bahrain. It was built in a typical Arab style.
Close to the Bahrain International Airport, the fort has been extensively renovated and presents a...
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| x Riffa Fort |
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Built by Sh.Salman Bin Ahmed ( al fateh) Al Khalifa, in 1812, Riffa Fort or (Arabic: قلعة الرفاع; transliterated: Qal'at ar-Rifa') it is now named ( Sh.Salman bin Ahmed Fort), in the Kingdom of Bahrain offers a splendid view across the Hunanaiya...
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| x Babruysk fortress |
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The Babruysk Fortress (Belarusian: Бабруйская крэпасць, Russian: Бобруйская крепость) is a historic fortress in the city of Babruysk, Belarus that was built between 1810 and 1836. It is one of the best surviving examples of fortification...
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| x Hero-Fortress |
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Hero-Fortress (Russian: крепость-герой, krepost'-geroy) is the honorary title awarded to the Soviet Brest Fortress, now in Brest, Belarus (then part of the Byelorussian SSR) in 1965 for the heroic defence of the frontier stronghold during the very...
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| x Fort Breendonk |
Fort Breendonk is a fortification built in 1906 as part of the second ring of defenses (the Réduit national) around the city of Antwerp (Belgium). Originally one in a chain of fortresses constructed to defend Belgium against a German attack,...
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| x Fort Eben-Emael |
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Eben-Emael was a Belgian fortress between Liège and Maastricht, near the Albert Canal, defending the Belgian-German border. Constructed in 1931–1935, it was reputed to be impregnable. But on 10 May 1940, 78 paratroopers of the German 7th Flieger ...
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| x Fort Assiniboine |
Fort Assiniboine is an historic Hudson's Bay Company trading post in Alberta, Canada situated on the Athabasca River at Highway 33, and lying north-west of Edmonton. With a current population of approximately 200 people, this hamlet was a stopping...
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| x Fort Calgary |
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Fort Calgary was established in 1875 as Fort Brisebois by the North-West Mounted Police, located at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in what is now Calgary, Alberta.
The construction of the fort was initiated on April 10, 1875 by a federal...
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| x Fort Chipewyan |
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Fort Chipewyan is one of the oldest European settlements in the province of Alberta, Canada. The settlement was established by the North West Company when it setup a trading post there in 1788. The Fort was named after the Chipewyan First Nation...
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| x Fort Edmonton |
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Fort Edmonton (also named Edmonton House) was the name of a series of trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1795 to 1891, all of which were located in central Alberta, Canada. It was the end point of the Carlton Trail, the main overland...
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| x Fort Mackay |
Fort MacKay is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located in the Wood Buffalo Municipal District, at the northern end of Highway 63, 64 km (40 mi) north of Fort McMurray, at an elevation of 260 meters (853 ft). The Athabasca River flows...
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| x Fort Macleod |
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Fort Macleod is a town in the southwest corner of the province of Alberta, Canada. It is named in honour of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Colonel James Macleod. Fort Macleod was recently chosen from 30 communities as the site for the proposed...
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| x Fort McMurray |
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Fort McMurray is a community within the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta. It was a city between 1980 and April 1, 1995, when it was merged with Improvement District No. 18, creating the municipality of Wood Buffalo. Fort McMurray...
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| x Fort Saskatchewan |
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Fort Saskatchewan is a city of 14,957 (2006 federal census) in Alberta, Canada, located 25 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, along the North Saskatchewan River. Fort Saskatchewan is part of Edmonton's Census...
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| x Fort Vermilion |
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Fort Vermilion is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada, located on the banks of the Peace River. Established in 1788, it shares the title of oldest European settlement in Alberta with Fort Chipewyan. Fort Vermilion contains many modern amenities to...
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| x Fort Victoria |
Fort Victoria, near present-day Smoky Lake, Alberta, was established by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1864 as a trading post with the local Cree First Nations. Today, it is a historical museum.
The oldest building in Alberta still on its original...
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| x Fort Hamilton, Alberta |
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Fort Whoop-Up was the nickname (that was eventually adopted as the official name) given to a whiskey trading post, originally Fort Hamilton, near what is now Lethbridge, Alberta. During the late 1800s, the post served as a centre for various illegal...
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| x Fort Walsh |
Fort Walsh National Historic Site of Canada is a part of the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park. As a national historic site the area possesses national historical significance. It was established as a North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) fort after and...
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| x Rocky Mountain House |
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Rocky Mountain House is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada, at the confluence of the Clearwater and North Saskatchewan Rivers.
The town has a long history dating to the 18th century with the presence of British and Canadian fur traders during...
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| x Fort Langley, British Columbia |
Fort Langley is a village with a population of 2,700 and forms part of the Township of Langley. It is the home of Fort Langley National Historic Site, a former fur trade post of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Fort Langley dates from a time when the...
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| x Fort Nelson |
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Fort Nelson is a town of approximately 5000 residents in British Columbia's northeastern corner. It is the administrative centre of the newly-formed Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, a first for BC. The majority of Fort Nelson's economic...
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| x Fort St. James |
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Fort St. James is a town and former fur trading post in north-central British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the south-eastern shore of Stuart Lake in the Omineca Country, at the northern terminus of Highway 27, which connects to Highway 16 at...
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| x Fort Steele, British Columbia |
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Fort Steele, British Columbia is a heritage town in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located near the intersection of Highway 93 and Highway 95, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Cranbrook.
Fort Steele was a gold rush boom...
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| x Fort Bourbon |
Fort Bourbon was one of the important northern forts that La Verendrye had built during his long tenure as commandant of the western forts. This was during the earliest exploration of the northwest and, besides trade, there was a strong desire to...
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| x Fort Douglas |
Fort Douglas was a fort of the Hudson's Bay Company that was built by Scottish and Irish settlers in 1812 in what is today Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was in the immediate vicinity (down river) of the North West Company establishment, Fort Gibraltar....
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| x Fort Ellice |
Fort Ellice was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post built in 1831 in Rupert's Land near the junction of the Assiniboine and Qu'Appelle rivers. The fort was located in what is now west-central Manitoba, Canada, just east of that province's border...
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| x Fort La Reine |
Fort La Reine, one of the forts of the Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye western expansion, was built in 1738. It was located on the Assiniboine River where present day Portage La Prairie stands. It served as a fur trading post and was...
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| x Lower Fort Garry |
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Lower Fort Garry was built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the western bank of the Red River, twenty miles north of the original Fort Garry, which is now in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is the oldest intact stone fort in North America, and treaty...
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| x Fort Garry |
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Fort Garry, was also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1822 on or near the site of the North West Company's...
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| x Fort Maurepas |
Not to be confused with the Fort Maurepas built in 1699 by Bienville and Iberville in present-day Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
Fort Maurepas was one of the first forts built by Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye and his men west of...
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| x Fort Paskoya |
Probably during the winter of 1741 -1742, La Verendrye decided to build a fort at the site chosen by the Chevalier, at Cedar Lake, as shown on the map of 1740. This is the first Fort Paskoya, situated on a small island, west of Cedar Lake, Manitoba,...
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| x Fort Rouge |
Fort Rouge was a fort located on the Assiniboine River in Manitoba, Canada, on the site of what is now the city of Winnipeg. Its exact location is unknown. Its name in English means "red fort".
In 1738 Sieur Louis Damours de Louvieres built Fort...
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| x Prince of Wales Fort |
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The Prince of Wales Fort is a historic fort on Hudson Bay across the Churchill River from Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.
The European history of this area starts with the discovery of Hudson Bay in 1610. The area was recognized as important in the fur...
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| x York Factory |
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York Factory was a factory (trading post) centred settlement located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba, Canada, at the mouth of the Hayes River, approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) south-southeast of Churchill. Though...
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| x Fort Howe |
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Fort Howe is the site of an 18th and 19th century British Army fortification built in present-day New Brunswick, Canada at the mouth of the Saint John River where it empties into the Bay of Fundy. The site of the fort is now located within the city...
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| x Fort Pepperrell |
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Pepperrell Air Force Base, previously known as Fort Pepperrell, was a former United States military base located in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada which operated from 1941-1960.
The base was named in honour of Sir William Pepperrell (1696-1759) of...
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| x Fort Edward |
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Fort Edward is a National Historic Site in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada. The most notable feature of the fort is a blockhouse, which, apart from earthworks, is all that remains of a more substantial structure first erected in 1750 by Major Charles...
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| x Fort Lawrence |
Fort Lawrence was a British fort located several kilometres west of Amherst, Nova Scotia in the modern-day community of Fort Lawrence.
The region comprising the Tantramar Marshes on the Isthmus of Chignecto had been settled by French colonists...
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| x Fortress of Louisbourg |
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The Fortress of Louisbourg (in French, Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a Canadian National Historic Site and the location of a partial reconstruction of an 18th century (1744) French fortress at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia.
French settlement on Île Royale ...
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| x Fort Sainte Anne |
Fort Sainte Anne may refer to:
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| x Habitation at Port-Royal |
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The Habitation at Port-Royal was an early French colonial settlement and is presently a National Historic Site located at Port Royal in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Port Royal was founded after the French nobleman Pierre Du Gua de Monts...
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| x Fort Ellis |
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Fort Ellis was an early United States Army outpost established August 27, 1867 to the eastern side of present-day Bozeman, Montana. The fort was established to protect and support settlers moving into the Gallatin Valley. The post was named for...
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| x Citadel Hill |
Citadel Hill is a term usually applied to a hilltop military stronghold. It can also refer to:
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