swap_horiz Fort Dauphin Alternatives

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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 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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Cape Coast Castle

British-administered castle on the Ghanaian coast, rebuilt in the 17th century as one of West Africa's largest slave-hol...

Coastal Colonial 17TH Century Ghana

8.5 Great

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Gorée Island Fortress

Fortified island off Dakar, Senegal, occupied successively by Portuguese, Dutch, French, and British powers, now a UNESC...

Colonial Island 17TH Century Senegal

8.0 Great

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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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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 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 Rotterdam

Dutch colonial fort in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, originally a Gowa Kingdom fortification that was captured an...

Dutch Indonesia Colonial 17TH Century

7.2 Good

9

Fort Charles

Historic British fort at Port Royal, Jamaica, built in the 17th century and one of the oldest surviving English colonial...

Coastal Colonial 17TH Century Jamaica

7.0 Good

10

Fort Belgica

Dutch pentagonal fort built in 1611 on Banda Neira in the Banda Islands, Indonesia, constructed to enforce VOC control o...

Dutch Indonesia Colonial 17TH Century

7.0 Good

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Fort Fredrick

Portuguese-built fort at Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (c. 1624), later modified by the Dutch and British, situated on Swami Ro...

Coastal Colonial 17TH Century Sri Lanka

7.0 Good

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Jaffna Fort

Portuguese fort constructed in 1618 in northern Sri Lanka, subsequently captured by the Dutch in 1658 and the British in...

Coastal Dutch Colonial 17TH Century

7.0 Good

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Sindhudurg Fort

Sea fort built by Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj between 1664 and 1667 off the coast of Malvan in Maharashtra,...

India Coastal Island 17TH Century

6.8 Fair

14

Fort Dansborg

Danish fort built in 1620 at Tranquebar (Tharangambadi) on India's Coromandel Coast, serving as the administrative headq...

Danish India Coastal Colonial

6.8 Fair

15

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 Amsterdam

Dutch colonial fort built in 1635 on the island of Curaçao, which today houses the island territory's government offices...

Coastal Curacao Dutch Colonial

6.5 Fair

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Fort Amsterdam Suriname

Dutch fort constructed near Paramaribo in 1747, serving as the primary military fortification protecting the Dutch colon...

Coastal Dutch Colonial 17TH Century

6.5 Fair

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Fort Oranje

Dutch fort established around 1629 on Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean, one of the oldest continuously maintained Europea...

Coastal Dutch Colonial 17TH Century

6.5 Fair

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Fort Batavia

Dutch VOC fort established in 1619 at present-day Jakarta, Indonesia, which served as the headquarters of the Dutch East...

Dutch Indonesia Colonial 17TH Century

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