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Newport Forts Guard Atlantic Coast Defenses
Newport emerges as a major fortified hub with coast defenses and naval facilities. The article details Fort Adams Wetherill Getty Phil Kearny Greble defenses, mortar batteries, and the Naval War College plus a hidden plan for encampments to defend Narragansett Bay and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Narragansett Bay
New York
York
Atlantic
Army
Navy
Newport
Atlantic Seaboard
Col
Walter Howe
Fort Adame
Warrecansett
Port Arthur
Atlantic Coast
Sound
Brooklyn
War Department
Rhode Island
Fort Manafield
Watch Hill
New London
Companiea
Department of the East
Ocean Avenue
Washington
Department
New England
Spain
Cervera
Santiago
Seaboard
Wetherill
Adams
Getty
Phil Kearney
Greble
Port Wetherill
Canonicut Island
Gehting Trimt
Engineering Corps
Fort Adams
Newport Littoral
United States Navy
Weertll
Middle Channel
Jamestown
Phil Kearny
Dutch Island
Adams and
Fort Greble
Saunderstown
Army Engineers' Office
Fox Hill
West Passage
America
Hes Rose Island
Torpedo Station
Briatol
Wilson
Navy Yard
Staday