Fort Jackson
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Fort Jackson can refer to several places or things:
- Fort Jackson (Alabama)Fort Jackson (Alabama)Fort Toulouse and Fort Jackson are two forts that shared the same site at the fork of the Coosa River and the Tallapoosa River, near Wetumpka, Alabama....
, also called Fort ToulouseFort ToulouseFort Toulouse is a historic fort near the city of Wetumpka, Alabama, United States, that is now maintained by the Alabama Historical Commission. The French founded the fort in 1717, naming it for Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse...
, a War of 1812 fort - Fort Jackson (Colorado)Fort Jackson (Colorado)Fort Jackson was one of the four fur trading forts that lined the South Platte River area north of present-day metro Denver area. It was built by in the early part of 1837 at a cost of $12,000.00 by Peter A. Sarpy and Henry Fraeb and partially financed by the Western Division of the American Fur...
, a frontier trading post located near present-day Ione, Colorado - Fort Jackson, LouisianaFort Jackson, LouisianaFort Jackson is a decommissioned masonry fort located some up river from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. It was constructed as a coastal defense of New Orleans between 1822 and 1832, and was a battle site in the American Civil War. It is a National Historic...
, an American Civil War-era fort - Fort Jackson (South Carolina), a modern U.S. Army post
- Fort Jackson (Virginia)Fort Jackson (Virginia)Fort Jackson was an American Civil War-era fortification in Virginia that defended the southern end of the Long Bridge, near Washington, D.C. Long Bridge connected Washington, D.C. to Northern Virginia and served as a vital transportation artery for the Union Army during the war...
, an American Civil War-era fort that defended Washington, D.C. - Fort Jackson (Wisconsin)Fort Jackson (Wisconsin)Fort Jackson was a frontier fort located in Mineral Point, Wisconsin and constructed during the 1832 Black Hawk War.-History:Fort Jackson was constructed in Mineral Point, Wisconsin during the 1832 Black Hawk War. The wooden stockade was constructed using logs from some of the early log cabins...
, an American fort used during the Black Hawk War of 1832 - Fort James JacksonFort James JacksonFort James Jackson is a restored nineteenth-century fort located one mile east of Savannah, Georgia, on the Savannah River. It hosts the Fort Jackson Maritime Museum....
, a War of 1812 fort that defended Savannah, Georgia - USS Fort Jackson (1862)USS Fort Jackson (1862)USS Fort Jackson was a wooden side wheel steamer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.Fort Jackson was in New York in 1862, formerly named Kentucky and Union, was purchased by Rear Admiral Hiram Paulding for the Navy from C. W. Vanderbilt on 20 July 1863 and placed in commission...
, an American Civil War-era ship - Treaty of Fort JacksonTreaty of Fort JacksonThe Treaty of Fort Jackson was signed on August 9, 1814 at Fort Jackson near Wetumpka, Alabama following the defeat of the Red Stick resistance by United States allied forces at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. It occurred on the banks of the Tallapoosa River near the present city of Alexander City,...
- Battle of Forts Jackson and St. PhilipBattle of Forts Jackson and St. PhilipThe Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip was the decisive battle for possession of New Orleans in the American Civil War. The two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River south of the city were attacked by a Union Navy fleet...