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:

    “‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.”
    —Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

    “Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)