Fort Stevens

Fort Stevens may refer to one of two decommissioned American military forts:

  • Fort Stevens (Oregon), a fort in Oregon that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River
  • Fort Stevens (Washington, D.C.), a fort in Washington, D.C. that defended the city during the Civil War

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or stevens:

    So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.
    Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    I do not know which to prefer,
    The beauty of inflexions
    Or the beauty of innuendos,
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)