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Fort Point National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Fort Point National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Fort Raleigh National Historic Site: see Roanoke Island. ...

Fort Scott National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Fort Scott National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Fort Smith, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Fort Smith, city (2020 pop. 89,142), seat of Sebastian co., NW Ark., at the Okla. line where the Arkansas and Poteau rivers join; inc. 1842. It is the r...

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Fort Vancouver National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Goldstein, Joseph Leonard

(Encyclopedia)Goldstein, Joseph Leonard gōldˈstīn [key], 1940–, American molecular geneticist, b. Sumter, S.C., M.D. Univ. of Texas at Dallas, 1966. He worked as a biomedical researcher at the National Heart I...

Fort Henry, in United States history

(Encyclopedia)Fort Henry, Confederate fortification on the Tennessee River, S of the Ky.-Tenn. line; site of the first major Union victory of the Civil War (Feb. 6, 1862). The fort was attacked and reduced by Union...

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Carolina campaign

(Encyclopedia)Carolina campaign, 1780–81, of the American Revolution. After Sir Henry Clinton had captured Charleston, he returned to New York, leaving a British force under Cornwallis to subordinate the Carolina...

Morro Castle

(Encyclopedia)Morro Castle môrˈō [key], fort at the entrance to the harbor of Havana, Cuba. It was erected by the Spanish in 1589 to protect the city from buccaneers. The fort was also used as a prison. Morro Ca...