Fort Jackson can refer to several places or things:
- Fort Jackson (Alabama), also called Fort Toulouse, a War of 1812 fort
- Fort Jackson (Colorado), a frontier trading post located near present-day Ione, Colorado
- Fort Jackson, Louisiana, an American Civil War-era fort
- Fort Jackson (South Carolina), a modern U.S. Army post
- Fort Jackson (Virginia), an American Civil War-era fort that defended Washington, D.C.
- Fort Jackson (Wisconsin), an American fort used during the Black Hawk War of 1832
- Fort James Jackson, a War of 1812 fort that defended Savannah, Georgia
- USS Fort Jackson (1862), an American Civil War-era ship
- Treaty of Fort Jackson
- Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip
Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or jackson:
“Why, even when I was innocent her hatred of me hurt a good deal. Now that Im guilty, her belief in me would hurt even more.”
—Garrett Fort (19001945)
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? Nowe are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
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