List of forts

Summary

This is a list for articles on notable historical forts which may or may not be under current active use by a military. There are also many towns named after a Fort, the largest being Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

Antigua and Barbuda edit

Armenia edit

Artsakh edit

Aruba edit

Australia edit

Sydney Harbour fortifications
Other fortifications

Bahamas edit

Bahrain edit

Bangladesh edit

Barbados edit

Belarus edit

Belgium edit

Province of Antwerp edit

Antwerp

Antwerp (historical) (1914, internal defenses)

Province of Liège edit

Province of Namur edit

Namur (1914, clockwise from E, right bank of Meuse River)

Bermuda edit

Bermuda had around 90 coastal defense forts and batteries[1] scattered all over the island chain. Early colonial defense works constructed before the 19th century were primarily small coastal batteries built of stone having anywhere from two to ten guns. Some of these early forts and batteries are the oldest standing masonry forts in the new world. Later forts constructed by the royal engineers were much larger and more complex.

Brazil edit

 
Fort of Monserrate in Salvador, Brazil

Bulgaria edit

Cuba edit

Curaçao edit

Canada edit

Many buildings and structures bear the name fort in Canada. Most of these places are either military installations, or a trading post that was established by a North American fur trading company. A number of "forts" in northern and western Canada were also established as exploratory, or policing outposts.

A number of municipalities in Canada include the term fort in their names. The municipalities that use the term fort in their name do so for historical reasons, with many of these communities resulting from the outgrowth of migrants that settled around the original fort. Many of these municipalities continue to bear use the term fort in their names, regardless of whether or not the original fortification and/or trading post still stands.

Military fortifications edit

The majority of military fortifications in Canada were built by the British, French, and Canadian armed forces. However, several military fortifications were erected by the Hudson's Bay Company, whose royal charter required them to fortify Rupert's Land. Other groups that erected military fortifications in Canada includes the First Nations, Spain, and the United States. Although military fortifications were built for strategic, and other military purposes, some military fortifications in Canada also housed trading posts, or was used by fur traders.

British Columbia edit

Manitoba edit

New Brunswick edit

Newfoundland and Labrador edit

Nova Scotia edit

Ontario edit

Prince Edward Island edit

Quebec edit

Exploratory forts edit

Several private entities, most notably the Hudson's Bay Company, established outposts or forts, within northern Canada for the purposes of housing exploratory expeditions to the Arctic. Forts that were built exclusively for the purposes of housing exploratory expeditions include:

Fur trading forts edit

A number of trading posts operated by fur trading companies were also referred to as forts. Fur trading companies that operated trading forts in Canada includes the Hudson's Bay Company, and the North West Company. Many of these were simply stockades, log enclosures for trading posts, although a few were former military installations which was later used by fur trading companies.

Alberta edit

British Columbia edit

Manitoba edit

Northwest Territories edit

Nunavut edit

Ontario edit

Quebec edit

Saskatchewan edit

Yukon edit

Law enforcement forts edit

The North-West Mounted Police (later merged with the Dominion Police to form the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) established a number of policing outposts in western Canada during the mid to late 19th century, in an effort to provide law enforcement in the region. Forts established by the North-West Mounted Police includes:

Channel Islands edit

Alderney
Guernsey
Jersey

Chile edit

China edit

Beijing edit

Hong Kong edit

Chinese (Qing dynasty) forts

Macau edit

All forts in Macau were built during or used during Portuguese rule:

Tianjin edit

Colombia edit

Congo, Republic of the edit

Croatia edit

Cyprus edit

Denmark edit

Dominica edit

Dominican Republic edit

Egypt edit

Estonia edit

Finland edit

France edit

Vauban edit

Séré de Rivières system edit

Maginot Line (Northeast) edit

Alpine Line (Maginot Southeast) edit

Former German fortifications edit

Moselstellung edit

Overseas France edit

Germany edit

Grenada edit

Haiti edit

India edit

Indonesia edit

 
Fort Rotterdam, built in Makassar by the Dutch in 1634

Java edit

The Moluccas edit

Papua edit

Sulawesi edit

Sumatra edit

Iran edit

Israel edit

Italy edit

Abruzzo edit

Aosta Valley edit

Apulia edit

Liguria edit

Marche edit

Piedmont edit

Tuscany edit

Jamaica edit

Japan edit

Kenya edit

Kosovo edit

Libya edit

Lithuania edit

Kaunas Fortress fortifications (listed in order of number)

Malaysia edit

Malta edit

Nepal edit

Netherlands edit

Forts on the Dutch Waterline edit

Forts on the Stelling van Amsterdam edit

Forts in the Caribbean Netherlands edit

New Zealand edit

Norway edit

Oman edit

Pakistan edit

Panama edit

Peru edit

Philippines edit

 
Fort Santiago, built in Manila by the Spanish in 1571

Poland edit

Portugal edit

Russia edit

Saint Kitts and Nevis edit

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines edit

Saudi Arabia edit

 
Masmak Fortress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Serbia edit

Singapore edit

Sint Maarten edit

South Africa edit

South Korea edit

Spain edit

A Coruña edit

Albacete edit

Badajoz edit

Burgos edit

Cádiz edit

Province of Castellón edit

Córdoba edit

Coria, Cáceres edit

Girona edit

Huelva edit

Málaga edit

Menorca edit

Murcia edit

Navarre edit

Palma de Mallorca edit

Segovia edit

Soria edit

Toledo edit

Valladolid edit

Zaragoza edit

Sri Lanka edit

Sweden edit

Taiwan (Republic of China) edit

Turkey edit

Ukraine edit

United Arab Emirates edit

United Kingdom edit

See also the list of castles, as many early forts were called castles, and many castle sites were reused for later fortifications. Also Palmerston Forts lists the many British fortifications built in the 1860s.

England edit

General edit

SE England edit

Thames edit

Medway edit

Solent edit

Portsdown Hill
Gosport
  • Sea Forts

SW England edit

East Anglia edit

NW England edit

NE England edit

Scotland edit

Wales edit

Virgin Islands (British) edit

United States edit

Alabama edit

Alaska edit

Arizona edit

 
The ruins of the Fort McDowell officers quarters
 
Ruins of the Fort Lowell hospital

Arkansas edit

California edit

Colorado edit

Connecticut edit

Delaware edit

Florida edit

Georgia edit

Hawaii edit

Idaho edit

Illinois edit

 
A bartizan on the reconstructed Ft de Chartres

Indiana edit

Iowa edit

Kansas edit

Kentucky edit

Louisiana edit

Maine edit

Maryland edit

Massachusetts edit

Michigan edit

Minnesota edit

Mississippi edit

Missouri edit

Montana edit

Nebraska edit

Nevada edit

New Hampshire edit

New Jersey edit

New Mexico edit

New York edit

North Carolina edit

North Dakota edit

Ohio edit

Oklahoma edit

Oregon edit

Pennsylvania edit

 
Fort Mifflin Commandant's House

Puerto Rico edit

 
Castillo San Felipe del Morro in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Rhode Island edit

South Carolina edit

 
Fort Sumter

South Dakota edit

Tennessee edit

Texas edit

Utah edit

Vermont edit

Virginia edit

Virgin Islands (U.S.) edit

Washington edit

Washington, D.C. edit

West Virginia edit

Wisconsin edit

Wyoming edit

Cities and areas with "Fort" in the name edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Forts and batteries; Bermuda online; accessed .
  2. ^ "The Fort Merensky". National Digital Repository of South Africa. Archived from the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2011.