Artillery fortifications built between 1885 and 1905 are often referred to as Endicott Period fortifications. The first board consisted of the following...
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was cut off again, with most of these batteries unfinished. In 1885 the Board of Fortifications, chaired by Secretary of War William C. Endicott, met...
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Grover Cleveland (redirect from 24th President of the United States of America)
Cleveland appointed the Board of Fortifications under Secretary of War William C. Endicott to recommend a new coastal fortification system for the United...
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Fort Carroll (category Artificial islands of the United States)
therefore, commenced the construction of modern concrete gun emplacements following the Board of Fortifications designs. The Army created three batteries:...
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Fort Drum (Philippines) (category Former installations of the United States Army)
fought the Battle of Manila Bay in the morning. The Board of Fortifications chaired by William H. Taft recommended that key harbors of territories acquired...
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10-inch gun M1895 (category World War I artillery of the United States)
implemented. Coast Artillery fortifications built between 1885 and 1905 are often referred to as Endicott Period fortifications. The Watervliet Arsenal designed...
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14-inch gun M1907 (category World War I artillery of the United States)
Secretary of War, was tasked with creating the Board of Fortifications to review seacoast defenses. The findings of the board illustrated a grim picture of existing...
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12-inch gun M1895 (category World War I artillery of the United States)
implemented. Coast artillery fortifications built between 1885 and 1905 are often referred to as "Endicott Period" fortifications. Watervliet Arsenal designed...
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William Crowninshield Endicott (category United States secretaries of war)
establishment of a system of examinations to determine the promotion of officers. Endicott convened and chaired the Board of Fortifications in 1885 (usually...
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Corregidor (redirect from History of Corregidor)
established by the U.S. Army. The Board of Fortifications chaired by William H. Taft recommended that key harbors of territories acquired after the Spanish–American...
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Fort Travis Seashore Park (category National Register of Historic Places in Galveston County, Texas)
Register of Historic Places in Galveston County on 30 March 2006. Fort Crockett Seacoast defense in the United States Board of Fortifications "National...
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the Board of Fortifications, for the construction of permanent forts to defend the US coastline, he introduced the idea of hot-shot furnaces of the French...
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executed or ransomed by the victorious player. Most of the named places on the map have fortifications with significant additional defensive combat strength...
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Gardiners Point Island (category Islands of Suffolk County, New York)
arisen entirely out of wartime fears. Most forts of its era were started based on recommendations of the 1885 Board of Fortifications and were already under...
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Cleveland established the Board of Fortifications under Secretary of War Endicott to recommend a new coastal fortification system for the United States...
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M1901 disappearing carriage, designation of the US Board of Fortifications F28 Sight M1901 variant, see List of U.S. Army fire control and sighting material...
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Danubian Limes (category Roman fortifications in Germania Superior)
Oberranna in 1960. These fortifications lasted only another hundred years before the fall of the Roman Empire. In 488 the land of present-day Austria was...
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Coastal artillery (category Coastal fortifications)
artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications. From the Middle Ages...
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Fort William and Mary (category War of 1812 forts)
on which the ruins of the former Walbach Tower of 1814 stand, as part of the large-scale War Department's Board of Fortifications began the latest improvements...
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Fort Williams (Maine) (category Former installations of the United States Army)
Board of Fortifications, often called the Endicott Board, recommended a comprehensive program of new fortifications in 1885. Fort Williams was one of...
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Fort Stevens (Oregon) (category Former installations of the United States Army)
gun. Artillery gun. 249th Coast Artillery, Living History Group. Board of Fortifications Attacks on United States territory in North America during World...
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Naval mine (category Coastal fortifications)
friendly shipping at risk. The extensive American fortifications program initiated by the Board of Fortifications in 1885 included remotely controlled mines...
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Fort Monroe (category Former installations of the United States Army)
earliest days of the Colony of Virginia, the site was identified as a strategic defensive location. Beginning by 1609, defensive fortifications were built...
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Fort Hamilton (category Coastal fortifications)
nearly 20 years. The 1885 Board of Fortifications, chaired by Secretary of War William C. Endicott and also called the Endicott Board, recommended sweeping...
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the legislators of the city decided to take no action to defend Philadelphia "either by erecting fortifications or building Ships of War". He raised money...
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Fort Slocum (category Military history of New York City)
Construction of fortifications on the island resulted from the recommendations of the Endicott Board of Fortifications, an 1885 study of America's coastal...
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Fort McKinley (Maine) (category Military history of Maine)
of Historic Places in 1985. The Board of Fortifications, often called the Endicott Board, recommended a comprehensive program of new fortifications in...
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Fort Kamehameha (category Lists of coordinates)
"possessions" such as Hawaii and the Philippines, based on the findings of the Board of Fortifications. Originally named Fort Upton for General Emory Upton (1839–1881)...
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16-inch gun M1895 (category World War I artillery of the United States)
administration in 1885, the Board of Fortifications under William C. Endicott was ordered to investigate the value and state of the United States' coastal...
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time, also with some re-use in that war. The Board of Fortifications was convened in 1885 under Secretary of War William Crowninshield Endicott to develop...
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