Fort Scott

General Winfield Scott, former General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army, was the namesake for five places named Fort Scott:

  • Fort Scott, Kansas, a city that grew up around a military fort of the same name
    • Fort Scott National Historic Site
  • Fort Scott (Arlington, Virginia), a small fortification in Arlington, Virginia, built to defend Washington during the American Civil War
  • Fort Winfield Scott, a coast artillery post created within the Presidio of San Francisco in 1912
  • Fort Point, San Francisco, renamed Fort Winfield Scott in 1882 but reverted to the original name before the establishment of the coast artillery post
  • Fort Scott (Plattsburgh, New York), one of three American forts laid out by Major Joseph Totten prior to the 1814 Battle of Plattsburgh

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or scott:

    “How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)