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    Fort Hill is a 0.4 square mile neighborhood and historic district of Roxbury, in Boston, Massachusetts. The approximate boundaries of Fort Hill are Malcolm...
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    Fort Point is a neighborhood or district of Boston, Massachusetts, and where a fort stood which guarded the city in colonial times. Fort Hill was located...
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  • site Fort Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, a neighborhood and historic district Fort Hill Estate, an historic estate in Lloyd Harbor, New York Fort Hill State...
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    District Fort Hill Square Government Center Haymarket Square (Boston) Post Office Square South Station Boston Theater District Waterfront East Boston Eagle...
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  • Fort Hill Historic District may refer to: Fort Hill Historic District (Northampton, Massachusetts) Fort Hill, Boston, neighborhood and historic district...
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    recently been captured at Fort Ticonderoga. In a technically complex and demanding operation, Knox brought the cannons to Boston in January 1776, and this...
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    Massacre (1770), the Boston Tea Party (1773), Paul Revere's Midnight Ride (1775), the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), and the Siege of Boston (1775–1776). Following...
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    In 1868 Roxbury was annexed to Boston. In 1869, the 70-foot-tall (21 m) Cochituate Standpipe was built atop Fort Hill by the Cochichuate Water Company...
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    Fort Warren is a historic fort on the 28-acre (110,000 m2) Georges Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor. The fort is named for Revolutionary War hero...
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    facilities. It is operated as Fort Revere Park by the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. Telegraph Hill, the site of Fort Revere, was first fortified...
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    Fort Independence is a granite bastion fort that provided harbor defenses for Boston, Massachusetts, located on Castle Island. Fort Independence is one...
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    Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is 18 miles (29 km) west...
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  • known as The Fort Hill Community, centered in a few houses in the Fort Hill section of Roxbury, then a poor neighborhood of Boston. The Fort Hill Community...
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    South Boston (colloquially Southie) is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, located south and east of the Fort Point...
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  • Mark Frechette was living at Mel Lyman's intentional community at Fort Hill, Boston, at the time he made this film. He and Lyman hoped that the soundtrack...
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    Roxbury Roxbury Film Festival Roxbury High Fort St. Joseph's Church "Boston's Neighborhoods: Roxbury". Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). 2010. Retrieved...
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  • the Years 1775 and 1776 [1] Winter Hill Fort Plan of the rebels works on Winter-Hill A draught of the towns of Boston and Charles Town and the circumjacent...
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    The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named...
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    and captured the fort's small British garrison. The cannons and other armaments at Fort Ticonderoga were later transported to Boston by Colonel Henry...
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    forces surrounded the city of Boston, beginning the siege of Boston. The main action during the siege, the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, was one...
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    and included Fort Worth, Fort Graham, Fort Gates, Fort Croghan, Fort Martin Scott, Fort Lincoln, and Fort Duncan. Originally, 10 forts had been proposed...
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    Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 86,395; it...
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    more fashionable neighborhoods such as Beacon Hill. In 1849, a cholera epidemic swept through Boston, hitting the North End most harshly; most of the...
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    authorities. In June 1960, at age 17, Hill joined the United States Army, serving with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. He claimed...
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    east, the forts were: Fort Slocum, Fort Totten, Fort Slemmer, Fort Bunker Hill, Fort Saratoga, Fort Thayer and Fort Lincoln. Unlike other forts, today very...
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    at Fort Independence, and his remains were relocated to Fort Devens, along with others buried at Forts in Boston Harbor, in the 1950s after the forts were...
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    Fort Andrews was created in 1897 as part of the Coast (later Harbor) Defenses of Boston, Massachusetts. Construction began in 1898 and the fort was substantially...
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    and the location of Fort Independence. In 1632, a fortification was constructed on Fort Hill to defend the town. In 1634, Boston sought defenses farther...
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    Boston. Along with Fort Warren, Fort Andrews, Fort Banks, Fort Strong, and others, it was among the first modern defenses of Boston Harbor. The fort was...
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    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts...
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