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:

    “Why, even when I was innocent her hatred of me hurt a good deal. Now that I’m guilty, her belief in me would hurt even more.”
    —Garrett Fort (1900–1945)

    “Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)