Fort Defiance

Fort Defiance may refer to:

Canada
  • Fort Defiance (British Columbia), winter quarters for American Captain Robert Gray
United States
  • Fort Defiance, Arizona, an unincorporated community
  • Fort Defiance (California), formerly Roop's Fort, located in Susanville
  • Fort Morris, Georgia, known as Fort Defiance during the War of 1812
  • Fort Defiance (Illinois), a Civil War post commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant, site of Fort Defiance Park
  • Fort Defiance State Park near Estherville, Iowa
  • Fort Defiance (Maryland), a War of 1812 fort on the Elk River
  • Fort Defiance (Massachusetts), a 19th-century fort in Gloucester
  • Fort Defiance (Lenoir, North Carolina), former plantation home of William Lenoir (general)
  • Fort Defiance (Ohio), in present-day Defiance, Ohio
  • Fort Defiance (Texas), briefly the name of the Presidio de la Bahia in Goliad, Texas during the Texas Revolution
  • Fort Defiance (Vermont), a fort in Vermont
  • Fort Defiance, Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Fort Defiance (Wisconsin), a fort during the Black Hawk War
In film
  • Fort Defiance (film), a 1951 Western directed by John Rawlins

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