A walk up to the ruins of two forts, King Charles's Castle and Cromwell's Castle, built in the mid-17th century in case of a French invasion, gives a real sense of the islands' history.
Black Hawk led attacks on two forts in northwestern Illinois.
The plan was to turn the two forts into a pincer that would squeeze enemy ships.
These confirmed the existence of two forts, and the ditch of the second fort was excavated.
The remaining two forts were captured soon afterwards.
At least two forts were named after Standish an earthen fort on Plymouth's Saquish Neck built during the American Civil War and a larger cement fort built on Lovells Island in Boston Harbor in 1895.
In the same year the Romans gained some forts in Armenia, while the Persians had captured two forts in eastern Lazica.
But in one of her first official acts as senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote a letter, also signed by Senator Charles E. Schumer, to President Clinton urging him to give the two 19th-century forts protection as national monuments.
I've had these same mixed emotions about a hundred forts that followed this one.
Three forts or portions of forts were built on their property: Fort Simmons, Fort Mansfield, and Battery Bailey.
