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| {{SocialNetworks}} | | '''Fort Wiki is remarkably mainly the work of a single man, John Stanton. He has now passed on the site to the [https://cdsg.org Coast Defence Study Group]. The [https://warlike.info Warlike] website has much more about fortifications worldwide.''' |
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| FortWiki.com is dedicated to documenting the historical [[Forts|forts, camps and stations]] that provided security and protection for the United States and Canada. | | <center> |
| | FortWiki.com is dedicated to documenting the historical [[Forts]] that provided security and protection for the U.S. and Canada. |
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| The goal is to combine the known public information about the forts, stations and batteries with detailed information from individual family histories and genealogies that may not be public. These histories and genealogies are rich with details about ancestors who lived, worked and fought at these forts and stations.
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| ==New and Updated Forts and Camps==
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| [[Fort Howard|Fort Howard, MD]];
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| [[Fort De Soto|Fort De Soto, FL]];
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| [[Fort Sumter|Fort Sumter, SC]];
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| [[Fort Moultrie|Fort Moultrie, SC]];
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| [[Fort Miles|Fort Miles, DE]];
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| [[Fort Saulsbury|Fort Saulsbury, DE]];
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| [[Fort Mott|Fort Mott, NJ]];
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| [[Fort Delaware|Fort Delaware, DE]];
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| [[Fort DuPont|Fort Dupont, DE]];
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| [[Fort Foote|Fort Foote, MD]];
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| [[Fort Monroe|Fort Monroe, VA]];
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| [[Fort Wool|Fort Wool, VA]];
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| [[Fort Washington|Fort Washington, MD]];
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| [[New or Updated Forts and Camps|(more...)]]
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| ==New and Updated Batteries== | |
| [[Battery Lazear|Battery Lazear, MD]];
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| [[Battery Clagett|Battery Clagett, MD]];
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| [[Battery Harris|Battery Harris, MD]];
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| [[Battery Nicholson|Battery Nicholson, MD]];
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| [[Battery Stricker|Battery Stricker, MD]];
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| [[Battery Key|Battery Key, MD]];
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| [[Battery Mount Vernon|Battery Mount Vernon; VA]];
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| [[Battery Sater|Battery Sater, VA]];
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| [[Battery Porter|Battery Porter, VA]];
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| [[Battery Robinson|Battery Robinson, VA]];
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| [[Battery Wilkin|Battery Wilkin, MD]];
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| [[Battery Emory|Battery Emory, MD]];
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| [[Battery Humphreys|Battery Humphreys, MD]];
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| [[Battery White|Battery White, MD]];
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| [[Battery Smith|Battery Smith, MD]];
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| [[Battery Many|Battery Many, MD]];
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| [[Battery Meigs|Battery Meigs, MD]];
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| [[Battery Decatur|Battery Decatur, MD]];
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| [[Battery Irons|Battery Irons, MD]];
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| [[Battery Mudge|Battery Mudge, MD]];
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| [[Battery Winchester|Battery Winchester, MD]];
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| [[Battery Lodor|Battery Lodor, CA]];
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| [[Battery Barlow-Saxton|Battery Barlow-Saxton, CA]];
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| [[Battery Leary-Merriam|Battery Leary-Merriam, CA]];
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| [[Battery Osgood-Farley|Battery Osgood-Farley, CA]];
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| [[Battery Calef-Wilkeson|Battery Calef-Wilkeson, CA]];
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| [[Battery Ashburn|Battery Ashburn, CA]];
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| [[New and Updated Batteries|(more...)]]
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| == Battery Construction Number(BCN) Batteries == | |
| [[Battery 126|Battery 126, CA]];
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| [[Battery 127|Battery 127, CA]]; | |
| [[Battery 128|Battery 128, CA]];
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| [[Battery 131|Battery 131, WA]];
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| [[Battery 237|Battery 237, CA]];
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| [[Battery 238|Battery 238, CA]];
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| [[Battery 239|Battery 239, CA]];
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| [[Battery 240|Battery 240, CA]];
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| [[Battery 241|Battery 241, CA]];
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| [[Battery 242|Battery 242, CA]];
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| [[Battery 243|Battery 243, CA]];
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| [[Battery 244|Battery 244, CA]];
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| [[Battery Construction Number(BCN) Batteries|(more...)]]
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| ==New and Updated Barracks==
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| [[vancouver Barracks|Vancouver Barracks, WA]];
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| [[Jefferson Barracks|Jefferson Barracks, MO]]
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| ==New People==
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| [[Frederick T. Dent]],
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| [[Christopher C. Auger]],
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| [[DeLancey Floyd-Jones]],
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| [[William T. Sherman|William T. Sherman]],
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| [[Winfield Scott|Winfield Scott]],
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| [[William B. Hazen|William B. Hazen]],
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| [[John E. Wool]]
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| ==USForting Blog==
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| We have established a [http://usforting.com USForting.com Blog] to help us describe our visits to forts and batteries. We hope that these descriptions will help others and make visits easier and more productive. Everyone is invited to participate so, if you want to blog about your fort visits, contact me and I will establish an author login for you. [[User:John Stanton|John]]
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| ==Recent Blog Posts==
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| * [http://usforting.com/2009/04/29/battery-meigs-at-fort-washington/ Battery Meigs at Fort Washington]
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| * [http://usforting.com/2009/04/11/battery-decatur-at-fort-washington/ Battery Decatur at Fort Washington]
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| * [http://usforting.com/2009/04/07/coast-defense-study-group-cdsg-2009-conference-wrapup/ Coast Defense Study Group (CDSG) 2009 Conference WrapUp]
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| * [http://usforting.com/2009/03/08/coast-defense-study-group-cdsg-2009-conference/ Coast Defense Study Group (CDSG) 2009 Conference]
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| * [http://usforting.com/2009/01/22/battery-245-at-fort-stevens/ Battery 245 at Fort Stevens]
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| * [http://usforting.com/2009/01/13/vancouver-barracks-vancouver-wa/ Vancouver Barracks]
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| * [http://usforting.com/2008/11/17/fort-dalles-visit/ Fort Dalles Visit]
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| * [http://usforting.com/2008/10/30/update-on-battery-russell-10-gun-model/ Update on Battery Russell 10" Gun Model]
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| * [http://usforting.com/2008/10/18/fort-casey/ Fort Casey]
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| * [[Recent Blog Posts|(more...)]]
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| Welcome to the Fort [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki/ Wiki]. Everyone is invited to edit the information (articles) contained on this site. Please browse around, as you do, you are likely to think of many other [[:category:People|people]], [[:category:forts|forts]], [[:category:stations|stations]] and other items that should be part of the site. Feel free to start an article on any subject that you see is missing. Don't worry if you don't have all of the information, just start it and others will finish it. By the same token, feel free to add or edit other articles if you see a way to improve them, even it's as simple as correcting a spelling error.
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