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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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Elmina Castle

Portuguese-built castle in Ghana (1482), the oldest surviving European structure in sub-Saharan Africa and a key depot i...

Colonial Portuguese Ghana 15TH 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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Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry is a star-shaped harbor defense fort in Baltimore, Maryland, whose successful resistance to a British naval...

USA Coastal Maryland Star Fort

8.2 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 Ticonderoga

Fort Ticonderoga is an 18th-century star fort at the southern tip of Lake Champlain, New York, originally built by Franc...

USA New York Colonial Revolutionary

7.8 Good

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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 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 Cornwallis

Star-shaped British fort in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, established by the East India Company in 1786 when Francis Li...

18TH Century British Colonial Malaysia

7.3 Good

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Fort Mifflin

Revolutionary War fort on Mud Island in the Delaware River near Philadelphia, defended against a prolonged British siege...

18TH Century USA Revolutionary War Pennsylvania

6.8 Fair

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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 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 Dauphin

French colonial fort established in 1643 in southern Madagascar, representing France's earliest settlement on the island...

French Coastal Colonial 17TH Century

6.5 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