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Fort Hamilton is featured prominently in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit season 19 episode 18, titled "Service". [20] Fort Hamilton is the setting for nearly all of Nelson DeMille's novel Word of Honor. [21] In The Lords of Flatbush, Jane Bradshaw's (Susan Blakely) father (Bill van Sleet) is an Army officer newly assigned to Fort Hamilton.
Hamilton Field (Hamilton AFB) was a United States Air Force base, which was inactivated in 1973, decommissioned in 1974, and put into a caretaker status with the Air Force Reserve until 1976. It was transferred to the United States Army in 1983 and was designated an Army Airfield until its BRAC closure in 1988.
The museum houses an array of artifacts from New York's military history including American Revolutionary War relics, uniforms from various wars, old maps of the fort, the post's old switchboard, an exhibit on a secret tunnel that connected Fort Hamilton with another base a half-mile away, [5] a Confederate mine and a piece of the net that ...
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [ 3 ]
Historic Fort Hamilton Army Base is located in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, with gates in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, and is one of several posts that are part of the region which is headquartered by the Military District of Washington. Its mission is to provide the New York metropolitan area with military ...
The New York area received six major forts under this program; initial plans for the latter four of these are said to have been drawn up by Robert E. Lee during his tenure as post engineer at Fort Hamilton in the 1840s. [13] [46] [47] Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn was the first of these forts, built 1825-1831 primarily as a land defense for Fort ...
Fort Condé. Fort Armstrong; Fort 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; Fort Harker; Fort Hull; Fort Jackson, open to the public; Fort Landrum; Fort Leslie; Fort Likens; Fort Madison; Fort McClellan; Fort ...
The Fort Hamilton Historic District is a historic district including all of Rose Island in Newport, Rhode Island. The district includes Rose Island Light and an early U.S. military fortification designed in part by Major Louis de Tousard. The fort was named after Alexander Hamilton, and was part of the first system of US fortifications. [2]