swap_horiz Fort Sumter Alternatives

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Burg Hohenzollern

Burg Hohenzollern is a spectacular 19th-century hilltop castle in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, functioning as the ancestr...

Germany 19TH Century Hilltop Swabia

8.8 Great

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Galle Fort

Dutch colonial fortification on Sri Lanka's southwestern coast rebuilt in 1663 on a Portuguese foundation, designated a...

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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Lovrijenac Fortress

Detached fort on a 37-meter cliff outside Dubrovnik's city walls, Croatia, built in the 11th century to deny any power a...

Coastal Croatia Dubrovnik Cliff

8.5 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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Aragonese Castle of Ischia

Island fortress off Ischia, Italy, with ancient roots rebuilt by Alfonso V of Aragon in 1441 and connected to the island...

Italy Coastal Island Naples

8.3 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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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 Point

US Army fort completed in 1861 at the base of the Golden Gate in San Francisco, the only complete third-system masonry f...

USA California Coastal Civil War

8.0 Great

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Oscarsborg Fortress

A Norwegian island fortress in the Oslofjord, built in 1845, renowned for sinking the German heavy cruiser Blücher durin...

19TH Century Coastal Norway Island

7.5 Good

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Fort Pulaski

Civil War-era fort on Cockspur Island, Georgia, where Union forces first used rifled artillery in 1862 to breach its mas...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Civil War

7.5 Good

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Fort Laramie

Originally a fur-trading post established in 1834 in present-day Wyoming, it became a key US Army garrison and treaty si...

USA 19TH Century Wyoming Frontier

7.5 Good

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Fort Monroe

Largest stone fort ever built in the United States, constructed 1819–1834 at Old Point Comfort, Virginia, and garrisoned...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Virginia

7.3 Good

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Fort Vancouver

Hudson's Bay Company post established in 1824 on the Columbia River in present-day Washington State, the principal hub o...

USA 19TH Century Washington Frontier

7.2 Good

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Fort Snelling

First permanent US Army post in the upper Midwest, established in 1819 at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesot...

USA Confluence 19TH Century Frontier

7.0 Good

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Fort Morgan

Confederate fort guarding the entrance to Mobile Bay, Alabama, captured by Union forces in August 1864 during Admiral Da...

USA Coastal Civil War Alabama

7.0 Good

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Fort Pickens

Union-held fort on Santa Rosa Island at Pensacola, Florida, one of the few Southern forts never taken by Confederate for...

USA Coastal Florida Civil War

7.0 Good

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Fort Clinch

Antebellum US masonry fort on Amelia Island, Florida, begun in 1847 and occupied by both Confederate and Union forces du...

USA Coastal Florida Civil War

6.8 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