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| Strongholds of the Past | [1] |
| Fort Independence (Castle William), Castle Island, Boston Harbor | [25] |
| Fort Columbus, or Jay, Governor’s Island, New York Harbor | [36] |
| Ticonderoga, Lake Champlain, New York | [49] |
| Crown Point, Lake Champlain, New York | [66] |
| The Heights of Quebec (The Citadel, Castle St. Louis), Canada | [72] |
| Fort Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia | [84] |
| The Citadel at Halifax, Nova Scotia | [93] |
| Fort George, Castine, Maine | [98] |
| Fort Frederick, Pemaquid, Maine | [105] |
| Fort Niagara, at Mouth of Niagara River, New York | [113] |
| Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York | [122] |
| Fort Michillimackinac and Fort Holmes, Mackinac Island, Michigan | [131] |
| Fort Massac, on the Ohio, near Metropolis, Illinois | [141] |
| West Point, Its Environs, and Stony Point, New York | [147] |
| Fort Constitution (Fort William and Mary), Great Island, near Portsmouth, New Hampshire | [161] |
| Forts Trumbull and Griswold, New London and Groton, on the Thames, Connecticut | [167] |
| Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware, Philadelphia | [173] |
| Fort McHenry, Baltimore | [180] |
| Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida | [190] |
| La Fuerza, Morro Castle, and Other Defences, Havana, Cuba | [201] |
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Fort San Carlos de Barrancas, Pensacola Bay, Florida | [207] |
| The Presidio of San Francisco, Golden Gate, California | [215] |
| Fort Adams and Newport’s Defensive Ruins, Newport, Rhode Island | [222] |
| Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia | [232] |
| Forts Sumter and Moultrie, near Charleston, South Carolina | [241] |
| Fort Pulaski, at Mouth of Savannah River, Georgia | [251] |
| Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, Alabama | [257] |
| Forts Jackson and St. Philip, at Mouth of the Mississippi, Louisiana | [263] |
| Fort Snelling, near St. Paul, Minnesota | [268] |
| Fort Laramie, at the Forks of the Platte River, Wyoming | [273] |
| The Alamo and Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas | [279] |
| Other Western Forts: FORT PHIL KEARNEY, NEBRASKA; FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS;
FORT FETTERMAN, WYOMING; FORT BRIDGER, WYOMING; FORT KEOGH, MONTANA; FORT DOUGLAS, UTAH | [285] |
| Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia River, Washington | [290] |
| Fort Yuma, at Head of Navigation, Colorado River, California | [295] |
| Valley Forge—Yorktown—Vicksburg—Lookout Mountain—Gettysburg—The “Crater” | [299] |
| Index | [305] |