Fort Hamilton
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Fort Hamilton is a United States Army installation in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, surrounded by the communities of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights. It is one of sever
Shore at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, c. 1872–1887
Sentry, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, c. 1872–1887
In June 1908, the 10th Company of the 13th Artillery District, NYNG (later the 245th Coast Artillery) loads a 10-inch gun at Fort Hamilton
12-inch disappearing gun at Fort Hamilton with Fort Lafayette in the background
Fort Lafayette
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Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in The Narrows of New York Harbor, built offshore from nearby Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now the Bay Ridge neighborhood in the New
Fort Hamilton
…initially Battery F of the 4th US Artillery. Fort Hamilton (now the Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle) was designed primarily as a landward defense for Fort Lafayette, although it had a sea-facing front as well. Fort Lafayette was offshore on Hendricks Reef, and was demolished in the 1960s to make room for the eastern…
Fort Lafayette, seen from the Brooklyn / Long Island / east shore with Denyse's Wharf to the left
Fort Lafayette in 1904
Robert Cobb Kennedy, hanged at Fort Lafayette for arson, 1865
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789