swap_horiz James Fort 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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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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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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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 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 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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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 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

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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

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Murud-Janjira Fort

Island sea fort off the Maharashtra coast, India, built by the Siddi rulers and notable as one of the few fortresses nev...

India Island 17TH Century Maritime

7.0 Good

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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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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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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

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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

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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 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 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