Fort Sanders

Fort Sanders may refer to either of the two United States Army posts named for General William P. Sanders:

  • Fort Sanders (Tennessee), the decisive engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War, fought in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 29, 1863
  • Fort Sanders (Wyoming), a wooden fort constructed in 1866 on the Laramie Plains in southern Wyoming, near the city of Laramie

It may also refer to:

  • Fort Sanders (Colorado), a frontier trading post located near present-day Brighton, Colorado
  • Battle of Fort Sanders, the decisive engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War
  • Fort Sanders (Knoxville neighborhood), a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee
  • Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, a hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or sanders:

    I made him with these hands, and with these hands I’ll destroy him.
    —Garrett Fort (1900–1945)

    The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions. It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief we are inclined to, and there are certain flatteries to the vanity of man which we all believe by nature, until we are awakened from our pleasing dream by rough facts.
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)