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[fawrt, fohrt] / fɔrt, foʊrt /


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Beyond the fort, roughly 100 plantations were worked by around 270 European planters and an enslaved population of about 5,000 people, up and down the Berbice River in present-day Guyana, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

In Welshpool, Powys, cropmarks of a rectangular Neolithic long barrow has been seen that dates back around 5,000 years, while in Conwy new details have been collected of buried Roman buildings at Caerhun Roman fort.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

One couple spent $1.3 million and the better part of a decade turning a 200-year-old fort on England’s coast into their seaside vacation home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Flushed and sweating, 31-year-old Annisa Enggracia Fidel runs back and forth to defend her fort from invaders -- hundreds of fellow adults all beating the blues by playing a nostalgic Indonesian children's game.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Nate ran with the crowd to the back of the fort, where there was a small break in the wall.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

“We’re still building forts, we’re just doing it at a large scale,” Josh said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Even if the country was never home to the coastal forts from which the trafficking of African people was organised, many enslaved people passed through it on the way to the New World.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

Stretching east to west from the North Sea to the Irish Sea, Hadrian's Wall featured a series of forts and towers placed at regular intervals.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

Those who survived the hellish conditions within these forts were then forced onto ships bound for the Americas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

And whereas most other historically black schools were scattered like forts in the great wilderness of the old Confederacy, Howard was in Washington, D.C.—

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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