the cannons at Fort Phoenix
Good Morning, I hope your weekend is starting well
and hoping it is the weekend when I share this, I prepare posts in advance and as I write this I plane to share it on a saturday but then someimes another post comes up and I swap posts around for when I will share them so I may confuse people saying its Saturday when I share it on another day
For today I am going to share a few shots of the guns or cannons at Fort Phoenix State Reservation in Fairhaven
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I little history of the Fort
Fort Phoenix is a former American Revolutionary War-era fort located at the entrance to the Fairhaven-New Bedford harbor, south of U.S. 6 in Fort Phoenix Park in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. The fort was originally built in 1775 without a name, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Just off the fort, in Buzzards Bay, was the first naval engagement of the American Revolution, the Battle off Fairhaven on 14 May 1775.
On 5–6 September 1778, the fort was destroyed by the British when they raided the harbor. A force under Major Israel Fearing drove off the British, both at the fort and when they attempted an attack on the town the next day. The fort was then renamed Fort Fearing. In 1784 it was given the name "Fort Phoenix" after the mythical bird that rose from its own ashes.
The fort was rebuilt in 1798, and rebuilt again in 1808 with 12 guns with Commonwealth resources
Nowadays I think there are only 8 left at the fort, 5 like this next one
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three more of them
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this one
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and as you can see two of these
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