Fort Frederica National Monument, on St. Simons Island, Georgia, preserves the archaeological remnants of a fort and town built by James Oglethorpe between...
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St. Simons, Georgia (redirect from Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia)
mission named Santa Cruz de Guadalquini was established. Fort Frederica, now Fort Frederica National Monument, was built beginning in 1736 as the military...
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name Frederica (novel), a romance novel by Georgette Heyer Frederica, Delaware, United States Frederica Academy, an American school Fort Frederica, a historic...
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Spain's influence north of Florida. Farther to the north are the ruins of Fort Frederica, established by Gen. James Oglethorpe in 1736 as protection for the...
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Jenkins' Ear, the battle was for the British fortifications of Fort Frederica and Fort St. Simons, with the strategic goal the sea routes and inland waters...
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western boundary of Saint Simons Island of the Georgia Sea Islands. Fort Frederica National Monument is located on the eastern bank of the river on Saint...
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Military Park at Fort Oglethorpe; Cumberland Island National Seashore near St. Marys; Fort Frederica National Monument on St. Simons Island; Fort Pulaski National...
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companies were recruited in England, the regiment was stationed at Fort Frederica. A Spanish invasion of the colony was planned in March 1738, but cancelled...
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Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for...
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Fort St. Simons, the Spanish began to cautiously reconnoiter beyond their perimeter. They found the road between Fort St. Simons and Fort Frederica,...
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Fort Ord is a former United States Army post on Monterey Bay on the Pacific Ocean coast in California, which closed in 1994 due to Base Realignment and...
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regarded as an illegal occupation by the British settlers. The building of Fort Frederica on St. Simons Island (near the mouth of the Altamaha River) in 1736...
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Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island between Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia. It preserves Fort Pulaski, the place where the...
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the abandoned Fort King George. They called their village New Inverness, later named Darien. That same year, Oglethorpe built Fort Frederica on Saint Simons...
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appointed William Horton to set up a military post in the area to protect Fort Frederica on St Simon's Island. By 1738 Horton had set up permanent residence...
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Castillo de San Marcos (redirect from Fort marion)
Castillo de San Marcos (Spanish for "St. Mark's Castle") is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States; it is located on the western shore of Matanzas...
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Fort Monroe is a former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula, United States. It...
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time of the Spanish Empire. In 1740, a British invasion force from Fort Frederica, Georgia blockaded this inlet, the southernmost access for boat travel...
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January 19, 2009. "Fort Frederica National Monument". National Park Service. November 12, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2009. "Fort Matanzas National Monument"...
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Till-Mobley Florissant Fossil Beds Fort Frederica Fort Matanzas Fort McHenry Fort Monroe Fort Pulaski Fort Stanwix Fort Union Fossil Butte Freedom Riders...
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Bibb Fort Bowyer Fort Carney Fort Claiborne Fort Condé, open to the public Fort Crawford Fort Dale Fort Decatur Fort Easley Fort Gaines Fort Glass Fort Hampton...
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have been preserved in Savannah, as well as in Darien, Georgia and at Fort Frederica National Monument. Although religious toleration was beginning to emerge...
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forts were constructed farther south, including Fort Frederica on St. Simons Island, diminishing the strategic importance of Fort Frederick. The fort...
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of Bloody Marsh was fought in Glynn County. James Oglethorpe built Fort Frederica, which was used a base in the American Revolutionary War. Glynn Academy...
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Fort Mountain State Park is a 3,712-acre (15.02 km2) Georgia state park located between Chatsworth and Ellijay on Fort Mountain. The state park was founded...
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Fort McAllister State Park is a 1,725 acres (698 ha) Georgia state park located near Keller and Richmond Hill in south Bryan County, Georgia and on the...
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Till-Mobley Florissant Fossil Beds Fort Frederica Fort Matanzas Fort McHenry Fort Monroe Fort Pulaski Fort Stanwix Fort Union Fossil Butte Freedom Riders...
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Fort Matanzas National Monument (Spanish: Fuerte Matanzas) is the site where the Spanish built a fort. It was designated a United States National Monument...
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list was: Antietam National Battlefield Park, Sharpsburg, Maryland Fort Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia Franklin Post Office, Franklin, Tennessee...
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Eisenhower Fort Frederica Fort Gaines Fort Gillem Fort Hawkins Fort James Jackson (aka Old Fort Jackson or Fort Oglethorpe), historic fort open to the...
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