Fort Pickens is a pentagonal historic United States military fort on Santa Rosa Island in the Pensacola, Florida, area.
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11 Facts About Fort Pickens
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Fort Pickens is included within the Gulf Islands National Seashore, and as such, is administered by the National Park Service.
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Fort Pickens was part of the Third System of Fortifications, meant to enhance the old earthworks and simple, obsolete designs of the First and Second System of Fortifications.
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Fort Pickens was of a Pentagonal design, with broader western walls to provide a wide range of fire over the bay.
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Fort Pickens had a counterscarp to the east side exclusively, to create a defensive moat in the event that a land invasion came from the west.
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Fort Pickens decided to abandon Fort Barrancas when, around midnight of January 8,1861, his guards repelled a group of local civilians who intended to occupy the fort.
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Fort Pickens then spiked the guns at Fort Barrancas, and moved his small force of 51 soldiers and 30 sailors to Fort Pickens.
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Fort Pickens McRee was nearly destroyed, and the town of Warrington and the Navy Yard were destroyed.
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Fort Pickens McRee was almost destroyed, and any buildings near Fort Pickens Barrancas were burned.
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Fort Pickens was of interest in World War II to the US Navy, and it was decided that the defenses of the fort needed to be strengthened.
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One addition to Fort Pickens's defense was Battery 234, which was meant to function alongside Battery 233 across the bay on Perdido Key.
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