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Fort Johnson Forts and Forts Caswell in North Carolina History
In 1668 King Charles II ordered forts for Albemarle territory but none were built. By 1745 the General Assembly created a Board of Commissioners to defend the Cape Fear river, leading to Fort Johnson and Fort Dobbs. Forts Johnson Granville and others, including Fort Fisher and Macon Caswell, followed through the 18th and 19th centuries as defense against Spaniards, Cherokees, and during the Revolutionary War and Civil War, with garrisons, ground surveys, and eventual federal control.
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Great Britain
Albemarle
North Carolina
George Burrington
Colony of
General Assembly
England
Board of Commissioners
Cape Fear River
Gov
Gabriel Johnson
Matthew Roan
Edward Moseley
Roger Moore
James Innes
John Swann
Fort Johnson
William Dry
Cape Fear
Carolina
St. Augustine
Florida
Brunswick Town
Ilmington
Ocracoke
Sir Walter Raleigh
Ocracoke Inlet
Bear Inlet
Onslow County
New River
Beaufort
British “Board of Trade and Plantations
Earl of Halifax
General Assembly of
Braddock
America
Johnson
John Dalryiple
Dinwiddie of
Rymple
Dobbs
London
Hugh Waddell
Statesville
Salisbury
Waddell
Blue Ridge
Cherokee Nation
Oli Fort
Marion
Lords of Trade and Plantations
Cape Lookout
Bethabara
Forsyth County
Bethany
Dal
James Moore
Charles McNair
Fort Granville
Odracoke
Earl Granville
Paine
Gore Sound
Bear River Inlet
Dobbs J
Grainger
Dalrymple
Fort G
George the
George the Third
Granville
Abraham Collet
Roanoke Island
Core Sound
Barnwell
Neuse River
New Bern
Kinston
Tryon
Regulators
Hillsboro
Collet
Josiah Martin
Ocracoke J
Robert Howe
Southport
United States
Fort Fisher
Wilmington
Frederick Jones
Major Craig
Yadkin River
McGaughey
Little Brittain Presbyterian Church
Rutherford County
Fort Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Fort
Bryant Helen
Jeconas Pickens
James Stanton
Smithville
Fort Macon
Spain
Fort Caswell
Fort Sumter
Charleston
Unil
France
F. M. Simmons
Secretary of War
Forts
Macon
Caswell
Bogue Island
Beaufort Harbor