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Board of Fortifications report, 1886

Several boards have been appointed by US presidents or Congress to evaluate the US defensive fortifications, primarily coastal defenses near strategically important harbors on the US shores, its territories, and its protectorates.

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Board of Fortifications

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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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Coastal artillery

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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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List of coastal fortifications of the United States

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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

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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

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therefore, commenced the construction of modern concrete gun emplacements following the Board of Fortifications designs. The Army created three batteries:...

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Gardiners Point Island

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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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Corregidor

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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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Heated shot

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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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Fort Hamilton

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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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M1901

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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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Naval mine

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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 Wadsworth

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of purchasing them. In 1847 total reconstructions of both forts began, under the federal third system of seacoast fortifications, an across-the-board...

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Fort Monroe

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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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William Crowninshield Endicott

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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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Presidencies of Grover Cleveland

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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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Beijing city fortifications

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The Beijing city fortifications were a series of walls with towers and gates constructed in the city of Beijing, China in the early 1400s until they were...

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Fort Delaware

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the 1885 Board of Fortifications, a government board headed by Secretary of War William C. Endicott; the resulting system of fortifications is often called...

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Fort Travis Seashore Park

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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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Fort Slocum

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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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Seacoast defense in the United States

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substantial fortifications were built at key locations, especially protecting major harbors. The defenses heavily depended on fortifications but also included...

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Harbor Defenses of Boston

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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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Fort Miley Military Reservation

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Administration of the US Department of Veterans Affairs. In 1885, United States Secretary of War William C. Endicott, heading the Board of Fortifications, issued...

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