swap_horiz Fort Prempeh Alternatives

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Burg Hohenzollern

Burg Hohenzollern stands atop Mount Jagdhause near Hechingen, Swabia, Germany. This 19th-century fortress was rebuilt as...

Germany 19TH Century Hilltop Swabia

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 Jefferson

Massive unfinished US coastal fortification begun in 1847 on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, one of the largest...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Florida

8.2 Great

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Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter is a sea fort in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, where Confederate forces fired the opening shots of the...

USA 19TH Century Coastal South Carolina

8.0 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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Festung Ehrenbreitstein

Festung Ehrenbreitstein is a massive hilltop garrison fortress in Koblenz, Germany, rebuilt by the Prussian military bet...

Germany 19TH Century Hilltop Prussian

8.0 Great

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Intramuros

Walled city in Manila, Philippines, founded by Spanish colonizers in 1571 as the administrative and ecclesiastical cente...

Spanish Colonial Philippines Walled City

8.0 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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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 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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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 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 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 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 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