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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.
A Martello tower at the water's edge below the fort. A removable roof to protect against snow is characteristic of Canadian Martello towers. Fort Henry National Historic Site is located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on Point Henry, a strategic, elevated point near the mouth of the Cataraqui River where it flows into the St. Lawrence River at the east end of Lake Ontario.
The Second Siege of Fort Henry was a three-day engagement during the American Revolutionary War that began on September 11, 1782. A force of about 260 Wyandot, Shawnee, Mingo and Lenape attacked Fort Henry, an American fortification at what is now Wheeling, West Virginia.
Fort Henry was a colonial fort which stood about ¼ mile from the Ohio River in what is now downtown, Wheeling, West Virginia. The fort was originally known as Fort Fincastle and was named for Viscount Fincastle, Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia.
The fort, named for Virginia Governor Patrick Henry, was at first defended by only a small number of militia, as rumors of the Indigenous American attack had moved faster than the Indigenous Americans, and a number of militia companies had left the fort. The American settlers were successful in repulsing the Indigenous American attack.
Fort William Henry was a British fort at the southern end of Lake George, in the province of New York. The fort's construction was ordered by Sir William Johnson in September 1755, during the French and Indian War , as a staging ground for attacks against the French position at Fort St. Frédéric .
Fort Henry is the name of: Fort Henry (Pennsylvania), stockade built during the French and Indian War, in Berks County, Pennsylvania; Fort Henry, Missouri, an unincorporated community; Fort Henry (Virginia), a 1646 fort near present-day Petersburg, Virginia; Fort Henry (West Virginia), a 1774 fort near present–day Wheeling, West Virginia
The first Fort Henry in the Virginia colony was a small facility, with a garrison of 15, that was erected in 1611 by Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr as part of a series of fortifications now located in Hampton. Due to continually humid conditions and Atlantic storms, this timber fort was defunct by the time the fort on the Appomattox was built.