The Harbor Defenses of the Delaware was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. It coordinated the coast defenses of the Delaware...
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Fort Mott (New Jersey) (category Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey)
United States, was part of the Harbor Defenses of the Delaware, a three-fort defense system designed for the Delaware River during the Reconstruction era and...
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Fort Miles (category Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware)
Nelson A. Miles. As the primary fort of the Harbor Defenses of the Delaware, it was built to defend Delaware Bay and the Delaware River and to protect...
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Fort Saulsbury (category Forts in Delaware)
coastal defense fort near Slaughter Beach and Milford, Delaware. From 1924 to 1943 it was the primary heavy gun defense in the Harbor Defenses of the Delaware...
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Fort Delaware is a former harbor defense facility, designed by chief engineer Joseph Gilbert Totten and located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River...
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Fort DuPont (category Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware)
in 1675. Along with two other forts of the Harbor Defenses of the Delaware, it defended the Delaware River and the water approach to Philadelphia from...
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The Harbor Defenses of New York was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. It coordinated the coast defenses of New York City...
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1941 Attack of Pearl Harbor. The defenses around Pea Patch Island were disarmed during World War II, as Fort Miles at the mouth of the Delaware estuary superseded...
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Cape May Point State Park (category State parks of New Jersey)
and World War II the park was the Cape May Military Reservation. Remnants of a gun battery, part of the Harbor Defenses of the Delaware, can be seen today...
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including the Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth (New Hampshire) and the Harbor Defenses of the Delaware. By World War II, radar had become a better method of determining...
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