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  2. Ostrog (fortress) - Wikipedia

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    Ostrog (Russian: острог, IPA: [ɐˈstrok]) is a Russian term for a small fort, typically wooden and often non-permanently staffed. Ostrogs were encircled by 4–6 metres high palisade walls made from sharpened trunks. The name derives from the Russian word строгать (strogat'), "to shave the wood". Ostrogs were smaller and ...

  3. Blockhouse - Wikipedia

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    Blockhouse. Completed in 1750, Fort Edward in Nova Scotia, Canada is the oldest remaining military blockhouse in North America. Reconstructed European wooden keep at Saint-Sylvain-d'Anjou, France, has a strong resemblance to a North American western frontier log blockhouse. A blockhouse is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or ...

  4. List of French forts in North America - Wikipedia

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    The French forts in Canada were located from the Atlantic Ocean to as far west as the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan rivers, and as far north as James Bay. Built between the 1640s and the 1750s, a few were captured from rival British fur trading companies like Hudson's Bay Company. The forts were located on waterways to provide ...

  5. Fort Norfolk in 1861, a first system fort upgraded as part of the second system. The Statue of Liberty is built on top of Fort Wood of the second system. Fort Adams, one of the largest third system forts. In the American colonies and the United States, coastal forts were generally more heavily constructed than inland forts, and mounted heavier ...

  6. Castra - Wikipedia

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    Castra. In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum[ 1] ( pl.: castra) was a military-related term. In Latin usage, the singular form castrum meant 'fort', while the plural form castra meant 'camp'. [ 2]

  7. Fort Michilimackinac - Wikipedia

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    Fort Michilimackinac was an 18th-century French, and later British, fort and trading post at the Straits of Mackinac; it was built on the northern tip of the lower peninsula of the present-day state of Michigan in the United States. Built around 1715, and abandoned in 1783, it was located along the Straits, which connect Lake Huron and Lake ...

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