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Suomenlinna

Suomenlinna is a historic sea fortress complex located just off the coast of Helsinki, Finland. Constructed beginning in...

18TH Century Swedish Finland Helsinki

8.8 Great

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Hwaseong Fortress

Hwaseong Fortress is a significant 18th-century walled city constructed in Suwon, South Korea by King Jeongjo of the Jos...

18TH Century South Korea Walled City Joseon

8.8 Great

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Galle Fort

The Galle Fort is a remarkably preserved coastal fortress located in Sri Lanka. Constructed by the Dutch East India Comp...

Coastal Dutch Colonial 17TH Century

8.8 Great

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Castillo de San Marcos

Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, built by Spain in St. Augustine, Flo...

Spanish USA Florida Colonial

8.6 Great

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Castillo San Felipe

Spanish colonial fortress sharing a name with several Caribbean and South American strongholds, each built from the 16th...

Coastal Colonial Colombia 16TH Century

8.5 Great

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Brimstone Hill Fortress

UNESCO World Heritage Site on St. Kitts, a major British colonial fortification developed from the late 17th century and...

18TH Century British Colonial Hilltop

8.0 Great

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Fort Mackinac

British fort on Mackinac Island, Michigan, constructed around 1780–1781 during the Revolutionary War and transferred to...

18TH Century USA Colonial Island

7.5 Good

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Fort Niagara

Strategic fort at the mouth of the Niagara River in New York, originally built by the French in 1726 and later held succ...

18TH Century USA New York Colonial

7.5 Good

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Real Felipe Fortress

Spanish colonial fortress in Callao, Peru, constructed in the 18th century as the primary maritime defense of Lima and o...

18TH Century Coastal Colonial Peru

7.5 Good

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Fort Canning

Singapore hilltop fortification known as the site of the British Far East Command's operations room during the 1942 Japa...

19TH Century Singapore British Colonial

7.5 Good

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A Famosa

Portuguese fortress built in Malacca, Malaysia, in 1511, one of the oldest surviving European structures in Southeast As...

Colonial Malaysia 16TH Century Portuguese

7.5 Good

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James Fort

British fortification built in 1673 in Accra, Ghana, that functioned as a slave-trading post and was subsequently used a...

British Colonial Island 17TH Century

7.5 Good

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Fort William Henry

British colonial fort at Lake George, New York, infamous for its 1757 fall to French and allied forces and the subsequen...

18TH Century USA New York Colonial

7.3 Good

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Fort St. George

First English fortress built in India, established in 1644 in Madras (Chennai), which became the nucleus around which th...

India British Colonial 17TH Century

7.2 Good

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Fort Frederica

British colonial fortification on St. Simons Island, Georgia, established by James Oglethorpe in 1736 to defend the new...

18TH Century USA British Colonial

6.8 Fair

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Fort de Chartres

French colonial fort built in the 1720s along the Mississippi River in present-day Illinois, serving as the administrati...

18TH Century French USA Colonial

6.5 Fair

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Fort Marlborough

British fort built between 1713 and 1719 in Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia, considered the largest British fort constructe...

18TH Century British Indonesia Colonial

6.5 Fair

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Fort Prempeh

British colonial fort in Kumasi, Ghana, named after the exiled Asante king Prempeh I and constructed following Britain's...

19TH Century British Colonial Ghana

6.5 Fair

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Fort Bullen

British fort established in 1826 at the mouth of the Gambia River primarily to intercept slave traders, later serving as...

19TH Century Coastal British Colonial

6.0 Fair

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Beau Bassin Fort

Colonial-era fortification in Mauritius constructed during French rule to protect inland settlements, later retained and...

18TH Century French Mauritius Colonial

6.0 Fair