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Fort Lincoln
Fort Lincoln (pomenovaná in honor of the president of the Abraham Lincoln) built in severovýchodnej part of the Washington (mieste this Lincolnovho park) was one of the strongholds of the Defense system Washington during občianskej war 1861-1865. The role of the fort was the defense of the railroad the B & O and hlavnej cestnej connector miest Baltimore and Philadelphia (called Baltimore Turnpike). Pevnosť susedila with ďalími fortifikačnými objektami - Battery Jameson of Fort Thayer. Fort Lincoln bola pevnosť bastionového type, ktorej hlavnú armament tvorli modern Parrotové doing (1 x 100 pound and 4 x 20 pound). Ochre prescribed ' twas had pevnosť aj more delostreleckými hlavňami in predsunutých postaveniach.
Under hodnotiacej administration Unijného inšpektora delostrelectva zo 17.05.1864 defense service Fort Lincoln along with close to Battery Jameson team 1. batteries Ľahkého delostreleckého regiment Maine dobrovoľníkov from Camp Barry. Pevnosť and priradené firing postavenia had pretty 35 delostreleckými hlavňami, of which: - 4 x 30 pound Parrotovo delo, - 1 x 100-pound Parrotovo delo, - 8 x 6 pound poľné delo (bronze), - 4 x 12 pound poľné delo, - 4 x 24-pound delo in barbetách, - 1 x 24-pound obliehacie delo, - 6 x 32-pound húfnica pobrežného delostrelectva, - 2 x 24-pound húfnica, - 2 x 8 pound húfnica, - 3 x mažiar (2 Coehornov and 1 x 10 inch).
In the fortress boli built 2 podzemné warehouses munície (administration konštatuje ako "lack of principles", that one zo storage sa did not give zamknúť).
Pevnosť bola ako many's strength zo of the System of defense of Washington after the end of the občianskej the war in 1865 opustená.
In súčasnej the time they are in mieste the fortress symbolically indicated by the individual fortifikačné elements (right satelitná map in tabuľke).
Fort Lincoln a pridružené batérie, vrátane Battery Jameson na dobovej mape
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