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The Battle of Fort Henry was fought on February 6, 1862, in Stewart County, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. It was the first important victory for the Union and Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater .
Fort William Henry is just above "York" on the right side of the map. Fort William Henry, built in the fall of 1755, was a roughly square fortification with bastions on the corners in a design that was intended to repel Indian attacks, but it was not necessarily sufficient to withstand attack from an enemy that had artillery. Its walls were 30 ...
Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812 , when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy from Chesapeake Bay on September 13–14, 1814.
1759 map of the Province of Pennsylvania, by Nicholas Scull II, showing Fort Henry just to the right of the map's center. Location of Fort Henry in relation to roads and farms in Berks County. [2] At the beginning of the French and Indian War, Braddock's defeat at the Battle of Monongahela left Pennsylvania without a professional military force ...
The battle of Fort Donelson, which began on February 12, took place shortly after the surrender of Fort Henry, Tennessee, on February 6, 1862.Fort Henry had been a key position in the center of a line defending Tennessee, and the capture of the fort now opened the Tennessee River to Union troop and supply movements.
Fort Henry (Jersey), an 18th-century fort on the island of Jersey; Fort Henry, Tennessee, site of the Battle of Fort Henry (1862) in Tennessee during the American Civil War; Fort Henry (bunker), a Second World War bunker in Studland Bay, Dorset; Fort Henry on the Missouri River, an 1822 fort southwest of present-day Williston, North Dakota
[15] [30] In February 1862, a smaller version of Grant's army, with the assistance of gunboats under the command of Flag-Officer Andrew H. Foote, had been the victor in the Battle of Fort Henry and the Battle of Fort Donelson. [1] [Note 5] For the Battle of Shiloh, Grant's army had 48,894 men in six divisions. [25]
Siege of Fort Henry may refer to: Siege of Fort William Henry, a 1757 siege during the French and Indian War on the frontier between the British Province of New York and the French Province of Canada; Siege of Fort Henry (1777), a siege during the American Revolutionary War, in Virginia; Siege of Fort Henry (1782), a siege during the American ...