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Fort Lafayette was an
island coastal
fortification in
New York Harbor, built next to
Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now
Bay Ridge in the
New York City borough of
Brooklyn. Construction of the
Verrazano Narrows Bridge forced the fort's destruction in 1960; the Brooklyn-side bridge
pillars now occupy the fort's former foundation site.
Constructed on Hendrick's Reef during the
War of 1812 and finally completed in 1818, Fort Diamond was renamed in 1825 to celebrate the
Marquis de La Fayette, hero of the
American Revolution who was returning to his native
France after his year-long tour of the
United States.
In the years before the 1861, the fort's 72 heavy
cannon commanded the primary approaches to the harbor, but during the
Civil War, the
casemates were used to house
Confederate prisoners of war and
politicians opposed to
Abraham Lincoln's administration policies. Rebuilt after a catastophic fire in 1868, the fort was later used for
ammunition storage and transfer until
World War II.
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