the cannons at Fort Phoenix

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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And that’s all folks


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Manually curated by scroogergotchiheroes.com from the @qurator Team. Keep up the good work!

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Wow... These cannons still look very good, in my area they are very rare, only in certain places they are very far away if I have to visit them, and today you display some very cool types of cannons.

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Wow! Very nice blue photos. Very atmospheric too.

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Thanks kindly your support is appreciated

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Nice shots. I like the sunrise shots. Seems like the cannons are still vigilent protecting the harbor.

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Very cool morning blue. My favorite is the three cannons with the sunrise sneaking in in the background. That one came out perfect!

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thanks for the feedback I hope your weekend is going well

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Beautiful pics with the canons especially the sky 👍
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Thanks kindly your support is appreciated

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