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Fort Gellibrand
Fort Gellibrand (Williamstown Central Battery) is a colonial coastal artillery fort at Point Gellibrand, Williamstown, Victoria, begun in 1855 with convict labour, developed under Captain Peter Scratchley, and still used by the Australian Army.
Fort Hall
Fort Hall, founded 1834 by Nathaniel Wyeth on the Snake River in Idaho, was a fur-trading post and major Oregon Trail supply station, later a U.S. Army post and namesake of the Shoshone-Bannock Fort Hall Reservation.
Fort Hall Indian Reservation
The Fort Hall Indian Reservation is the home of the federally recognized Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in southeastern Idaho, established by executive order in 1867 and now spanning 544,000 acres.
Fort Henry Guard
Fort Henry Guard: ceremonial drill unit founded 1938 by Ronald Way at Fort Henry, Kingston, Ontario; student recruits interpreting 1867 British soldiers, distinct from RMC and Canadian Armed Forces.
Fort Hills oil sands project
Fort Hills is an open-pit oil sands mining project in Alberta's Athabasca region, north of Fort McMurray, owned by Suncor Energy with a capacity of 194,000 barrels of bitumen per day.
Fort Huachuca
Fort Huachuca is a US Army installation in Cochise County, Arizona, established 1877, home of the Army Intelligence Center of Excellence, NETCOM, and UAS training, and Arizona's largest military economic contributor.
Fort Irwin National Training Center
Fort Irwin National Training Center: U.S. Army combat training center in the High Mojave Desert, California, activated 1980-1981, running 10 brigade rotations yearly against a dedicated opposing force.
Fort Jackson (South Carolina)
Fort Jackson, in Columbia, South Carolina, is the U.S. Army's largest Initial Entry Training center, established as Camp Jackson in 1917, renamed 1940, training about half of all new Army soldiers.
Fort Jefferson (Florida)
Fort Jefferson is the largest all-masonry 19th-century U.S. coastal fort, an unfinished hexagonal Third System fortress on Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, about 70 miles west of Key West, used as a Civil War Union prison that held Dr. Samuel Mudd.
Fort Jesus
Fort Jesus, Mombasa: Portuguese fort built 1593-1596 to Giovanni Battista Cairati's Renaissance design, taken by Oman in 1698, later British prison, now a museum and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kenya.
Fort Kiowa
Fort Kiowa, officially Fort Lookout, was a fur trading post on the Missouri River in South Dakota, active in the mid-1820s. Also a Jedediah Smith and William Ashley expedition base; site excavated in 1950-1951.
Fort Knox
Fort Knox is a U.S. Army installation in central Kentucky, 109,000 acres in Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties. Formerly home of the Armor School, it now hosts Human Resources Command, Cadet Command, and the U.S. Bullion Depository.
Fort Konstantin
Форт Константин (Fort Konstantin, Double Southern Battery): a Kronstadt coastal fort begun as a wooden battery in 1808, renamed 1834, armored from 1863, now a museum and recreation complex on Kotlin Island's dam.
Fort Largs
Fort Largs is a former coastal defence fort at Taperoo, Adelaide, South Australia, built 1882-1884 to guard the Port River entrance. Its 1889 six-inch disappearing guns outranged Fort Glanville; later a WWII decoy, police academy, and 2024 heritage restoration.
Fort Lauderdale airport shooting
The Fort Lauderdale airport shooting was a 2017 mass shooting in which Esteban Santiago-Ruiz killed five people in the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport baggage claim.
Fort Lauderdale United FC
Fort Lauderdale United FC (FTL UTD) is a Fort Lauderdale, Florida pro soccer club; women's team in the Gainbridge USL Super League since 2024, 2025 inaugural finalist; men's USL League One team debuts 2027 at Amerant Bank Field.
Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport
Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport (FLL) is a commercial airport in Broward County, Florida, 3 miles southwest of downtown Fort Lauderdale. It served 35.2 million passengers in 2024.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida: county seat and largest city of Broward County, incorporated 1911, nicknamed the Venice of America for its 165 miles of waterways; population about 183,000-186,000, home to Port Everglades and a $1.6 billion flood-resilience program.
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: US Army post founded 1827 by Colonel Henry Leavenworth, oldest active installation west of the Mississippi, home of the Combined Arms Center, Command and General Staff College, and the Disciplinary Barracks military prison.
Fort Lee lane closure scandal
The Fort Lee lane closure scandal, or Bridgegate, was the 2013 closure of George Washington Bridge access lanes as political retribution against Fort Lee's mayor; convictions were overturned by the Supreme Court in 2020.
Fort Lee, New Jersey
Fort Lee is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, on the Hudson River opposite Manhattan, named for Washington's 1776 encampment, birthplace of the American film industry, and home of the George Washington Bridge.
Fort Leonard Wood
Fort Leonard Wood is a U.S. Army installation in south-central Missouri, home of the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence. Established 1940, named for Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, it trains Engineer, CBRN, and Military Police forces.
Fort Liberty
Fort Liberty was the 2023-2025 name of the US Army's largest installation near Fayetteville, North Carolina, renamed from Fort Bragg to drop a Confederate honoree, then restored as Fort Bragg in 2025 for WWII paratrooper Roland L. Bragg.
Fort Mackinac
Fort Mackinac: British-built 1780 fort on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in the Straits of Mackinac; captured by the British in 1812, US national park headquarters 1875, decommissioned 1895, now a living history museum with 14 original buildings.
Fort Macon
Fort Macon is a Third System coastal fortification guarding the harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina, built between 1826 and 1834 and captured by Union forces in 1862.
Fort Martin power station
The Fort Martin power station is a coal-fired plant in Maidsville, West Virginia, owned by Mon Power, with two units generating 1,098 MW since 1967 and 1968.
Fort Matanzas National Monument
Fort Matanzas National Monument preserves a Spanish coquina fort built 1740–1742 on Rattlesnake Island, Florida, guarding Matanzas Inlet, the backdoor to St. Augustine; it repelled Oglethorpe in 1742 and is reached by free NPS ferry.
Fort McHenry
Fort McHenry is a star-shaped coastal fort on Whetstone Point, Baltimore, Maryland, built 1798-1803 and named for James McHenry; its 1814 defense against a 25-hour British bombardment inspired Francis Scott Key's poem that became the national anthem.
Fort McMurray
Fort McMurray, Alberta: urban hub of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo at the Athabasca-Clearwater confluence, founded 1870 as an HBC post, and the service center of the Athabasca oil sands since the 1967 GCOS operation.
Fort McPherson
Fort McPherson (Teetl'it Zheh) is a Gwich'in hamlet in the Northwest Territories on the Peel River, founded as an 1840 Hudson's Bay Company post, a national historic site, and site of the 1911 Lost Patrol.