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Name County Built Notes 05 Fort Adair: Knox: 1788 or 1791: Location unknown, destroyed 10 Fort Assumption: Shelby: 1739: 15 Bledsoe's Fort: Sumner: 1781–83: 20 Fort Blount: Jackson: 1794: Site excavated 1989-1994
By June 1861, the first Confederate fortification at Randolph, Fort Wright, was close to completion. [1] Fort Randolph, the second Confederate stronghold in the area, was constructed only months after Fort Wright, in Fall 1861. [2] The fortification was situated on the Mississippi River bluffs, about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Fort Wright. [3]
The first Confederate States Army fort in Tennessee was built at Randolph early in the American Civil War in 1861; a second fortification at Randolph was constructed later that same year. During the Civil War, the town was burned down twice by Union Army forces, which further promoted the decline of the once flourishing community.
Fort Nashborough, also known as Fort Bluff, Bluff Station, French Lick Fort, Cumberland River Fort and other names, was the stockade established in early 1779 in the French Lick area of the Cumberland River valley, as a forerunner to the settlement that would become the city of Nashville, Tennessee. The fort was not a military garrison.
The Second Seminole War, often referred to as the Seminole War, is regarded as "the longest and most costly of the Indian conflicts of the United States". [12] After the Treaty of Payne's Landing in 1832 that called for the Seminoles' removal from Florida, tensions rose until fierce hostilities occurred in Dade's massacre in 1835.
Negro Fort was a short-lived fortification built by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812, in a remote part of what was at the time Spanish Florida.It was intended to support a never-realized British attack on the U.S. via its southwest border, [1] by means of which they could "free all these Southern Countries [states] from the Yoke of the Americans".
A 2007 historical fiction that takes place around the time of the First and Second Seminole Wars. [165] Distant Drums, A 1951 film starring Gary Cooper. Shot on location in Florida and takes place during the Second Seminole War. [166] Seminole, A 1953 movie starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Hale that takes place during the Second Seminole War. [167]
Fort Watauga, also known as Fort Caswell, was a fortification located in the Watauga River's Sycamore Shoals near modern-day Elizabethton, Tennessee. It was constructed from 1775 to 1776 by the Watauga Association , a semi-autonomous government founded by American settlers living near the river, to defend the settlers against attacks from ...