Fort Charles

Fort Charles may refer to:

  • Fort Charles (Nevis), military fort on the Caribbean island of Nevis
  • Fort Charles (Saint Kitts), military fort on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts
  • Fort Charles (Maine), first English fort at Pemaquid, built 1677
  • Fort Charles (Nebraska), trading fort in the Nebraska Territory, see History of Nebraska
  • Fort Charles (Minorca), a defensive citadel protecting Port Mahon which fell to the British during the Capture of Minorca
  • Fort Charles (Ghana), an English fort built in 1674 near Anomabu in present-day Ghana
  • Charlesfort, a short-lived 16th-century French settlement on Parris Island in what is now South Carolina
  • Charles Fort National Historic Site, the site of a short-lived Scottish settlement in Nova Scotia in the 1620s
  • Salcombe Castle, or Fort Charles, in Devon, England

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    “The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)