Although built in 1798, Fort McHenry is best known for its defense of Baltimore Harbor from the British Navy from Sept. 13 to 14, 1814. The American victory and the site of the U.S. flag being ...

Built in 1833 by Charles and William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain as a fur trading post, Bent’s Old Fort was the only white American permanent outpost on the Sante Fe Trail between Missouri and the ...

Old Forts . . . Old Gold Mines.” The atlases make no promises or guarantees of lost treasure, but the whiff of forgotten places and things waiting to be found is a kind of historic catnip to a ...

An eight-day standoff began Sept. 5, 1812, in what is now Fort Wayne, lasting until the Native American forces retreated, according to the Old Fort’s website.

This article was originally published with the title “ Old Battleships as Permanent Forts ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 104 No. 10 (March 1911), p. 245 doi:10.1038 ...