Fort Henry

Fort Henry is the name of:

  • Fort Henry (Virginia), a 1646 fort near present-day Petersburg, Virginia
  • Fort Henry (West Virginia), a 1774 fort near present–day Wheeling, West Virginia
  • Fort Henry, a winter camp built by Andrew Henry (fur trader) on Henry's Fork of the Snake River in 1810-11
  • Fort Henry, Ontario (1837) in Kingston, Ontario, a limestone redoubt and connected fortified battery, built to protect the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard and the entrance to the Rideau Canal — now a popular tourist destination
  • Fort Henry (site of the Battle of Fort Henry), site of the Battle of Fort Henry (1862) in Tennessee during the American Civil War
  • Fort Henry in Studland Bay, built in 1943 by Canadian engineers and used during the Second World War for training exercises in preparation for D-Day
  • Fort Henry on the Missouri River, an 1822 fort southwest of present-day Williston, North Dakota

Famous quotes containing the word fort:

    “How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)