Fort Brooklyn
| Fort Brooklyn | |
|---|---|
| Brooklyn Heights, near present day Pierrepont and Henry Streets | |
| Type | Star Fort |
| Site information | |
| Condition | Replaced by urban development |
| Site history | |
| Built | May, 1780 |
| Built by | British Army |
| In use | 1780–1781 |
| Demolished | ca. 1825 |
| Battles/wars | American Revolutionary War; Battle of Brooklyn |
| Garrison information | |
| Occupants | British Army; US Continental Army |
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Fort Brooklyn was a British-built large star fort built to support the occupation of Brooklyn during the American Revolutionary War.
The site was on Brooklyn Heights, near present-day Pierrepont and Henry Streets, about four blocks from Fort Stirling. The fort was 450 feet square with ramparts 40 to 50 feet above the bottom of an encircling ditch.
Each angle had a bastion and there was a substantial barracks and two magazines. After the British evacuation the fort was leveled between 1823 and 1825 for development.
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- 1780 establishments in New York (state)
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- Military installations established in 1780
- Buildings and structures destroyed in 1823
- American Revolutionary War forts
- Forts in New York City
- New York (state) in the American Revolution
- Colonial forts in New York (state)
- British forts in the United States
- 18th century in Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Heights
- Demolished buildings and structures in Brooklyn