United States · 19th century
Fort C. F. Smith ranks #5,354 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #98 of the 110 mapped in United States. Founded 1866, it is older than 6% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
Fort C. F. Smith was a military post established in the Powder River country by the United States Army in the southern portion of the Montana Territory on August 12, 1866, during Red Cloud's War. Established by order of Col. Henry B. Carrington, it was one of five forts proposed to protect the Bozeman Trail against the Oglala Lakota (Sioux), who saw the trail as a violation of the earlier 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie. The fort was abandoned two years later in 1868 and burned by the returning Sioux under Red Cloud.
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