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Fort Mifflin
🇺🇸 Estados Unidos · siglo XVIII
Fort Mifflin, originally called Fort Island Battery and also known as Mud Island Fort, was commissioned in 1771 and sits on Mud Island (or Deep Water Island) on the Delaware River below Philadelphia, Pennsylvania near Philadelphia International Airport.
During the American Revolutionary War, the British Army bombarded and captured the fort as part of their conquest of Philadelphia in autumn 1777. In 1795, the fort was renamed for Thomas Mifflin, a Continental Army officer and the first post-independence Pennsylvania governor.
The U.S. Army began rebuilding the fort in 1794, and continued to garrison and build on the site into the 19th century. Fort Mifflin housed prisoners during the American Civil War. The U.S. Army decommissioned Fort Mifflin for active duty infantry and artillery in 1962.
Texto adaptado de «Fort Mifflin» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Mifflin ranks #2440 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #67 of the 98 mapped in Estados Unidos. Fundado en 1771, más antiguo que el 18% de los monumentos datados del atlas — one of 360 atlas entries founded in the siglo XVIII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.
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