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Coastal fortifications | HearLore
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Coastal fortifications
Fort McHenryJean Foncin designed the fort in 1798. He was a Frenchman who arrived to improve defenses for the Port of Baltimore. Construction began that same year and…
Fort SumterConstruction began in 1829 on an artificial island created from a sand bar in Charleston Harbor. Seventy thousand tons of granite arrived from New England to…