Fort Jackson

Fort Jackson can refer to several places or things:

  • Fort Jackson (Alabama), also called Fort Toulouse, a War of 1812 fort
  • Fort Jackson (Colorado), a frontier trading post located near present-day Ione, Colorado
  • Fort Jackson, Louisiana, an American Civil War-era fort
  • Fort Jackson (South Carolina), a modern U.S. Army post
  • Fort Jackson (Virginia), an American Civil War-era fort that defended Washington, D.C.
  • Fort Jackson (Wisconsin), an American fort used during the Black Hawk War of 1832
  • Fort James Jackson, a War of 1812 fort that defended Savannah, Georgia
  • USS Fort Jackson (1862), an American Civil War-era ship
  • Treaty of Fort Jackson
  • Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or jackson:

    “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)

    “The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.”
    —Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)