There are several historical forts in the U.S. state of Florida. De Quesada states that there have been more than 300 "camps, batteries, forts and redoubts" in Florida, since European settlement began. More than 80 "blockhouses, forts, camps and stockades" were used at one time or another in Florida, during the Seminole Wars. Most forts were constructed from earth or wood, or both; some incorporate brick or stone. Many were intended to be used for only a short period, and most have effectively disappeared. In some cases, a series of forts with different names were built on or close to the same place.
List of forts
Battery San Antonio, Pensacola
Camp Daniels
Camp Darley - Second Seminole War fortification. Camp Munroe - Second Seminole War fortification. p. 170. Camp Dunlawton - Second Seminole War fortification - site of the Battle of Dunlawton. Camp Scott, Everglades Cantonment Clinch, Pensacola Castillo de San Marcos (also Fort Marion and Fort St. Mark, now a U.S. National Monument) Fort Alabama see Fort Foster Fort Ann Fort Annuttgeliea Fort Arbuckle, Frostproof, Polk County Fort Armstrong, near Bushnell. On December 28, 1835, 180 Seminoles ambushed Major Francis L. Dade and his two U.S. Army companies of 110 soldier, resulting in the Dade battle. All but three of Dade's men were killed. The massacre began the Second Seminole War. A regiment of Tennessee militiamen led by Major Robert Armstrong, built Fort Armstrong at the site of Dade's Massacre. From Fort Armstrong, Brigadier General Keith Call led an attack on the Seminoles living in the Wahoo Swamp a few days after the fort's construction ended. Fort Barnwell - Second Seminole War fort - was also known as Fort Columbia. Fort Barker Fort Barrancas (also Fort San Carlos de Barrancas) Fort Basinger - Second and Third Seminole War Fort. Fort Birch - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Blount Fort Braden Fort Brooke - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Brooks - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Butler Fort Caben - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Call - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Caroline Fort Carroll Fort Casey Fort Center Fort Chokonikla (also Fort Chokkonickla and Fort Chokhonikla, now part of Paynes Creek Historic State Park) Fort Christian - Second Seminole War Fort. p. 190. Fort Christmas – one in a series of four small, short lived forts built along the St. Johns River during the Seminole Wars. These forts were used to garrison troops and protect supplies during War. Fort Clarke, in present-day Gainesville, Second Seminole War Fort Clinch Fort Coombs Fort Cooper Fort Crèvecoeur (French), First Spanish Period Fort Cross, on Cape Sable, Third Seminole War Fort Cummings - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Dade (Withlacoochee River), Second Seminole War Fort Dade (Egmont Key), Spanish–American War Fort Dallas, Miami - Second Seminole War fort. Fort De Soto Fort Defiance, Second Seminole War Fort Denaud - Second Seminole War fort. Fort Diego Fort Denaud, LaBelle Fort Doane Fort Drane - Second Seminole War fort. Fort Drum Fort Dulaney - Second Seminole War fort. Fort Duncan McRee (also Addison Blockhouse) - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Fanning - Second Seminole War Fort. Also known as Fort Mellon. Fort Florida - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Foster - Established during the Second Seminole War as Fort Alabama by Colonel William Lindsay in present day Hillsborough County, Florida. Fort Alabama was destroyed and a new fort, Fort Foster, was built to replace it and named for Lieutenant Colonel William S. Foster. Fort Foster State Historic Site is a reproduction of the fort and is a part of the Hillsborough River State Park. Fort Foster, Collier County - not to be confused with Fort Foster in Hillsborough County. Fort Floyd - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Fraser Fort Fulton - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Gadsden Fort Gardiner - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Gatlin Fort George Fort Green Fort Hanson - Second Seminole War Fort - (located eighteen miles southwest of St. Augustine). Fort Harlee Fort Harrell Fort Hartsuff Fort Harvie Fort Heilman - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Homer W. Hesterly Fort Hooker Fort Houston, in Tallahassee, Civil War Fort Jackson - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Jefferson Fort Jupiter - Second Seminole War Fort. pp. 190, 193. Fort Keais Fort Keats - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort King - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Kingsbury - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Kissimmee Fort Lane – one in a series of four small, short lived forts built along the St. Johns River during the Seminole Wars. These forts were used to garrison troops and protect supplies during War. Fort Lauderdale - Second Seminole War Fort. Fort Lloyd Fort Lonesome Fort Macomb - Second Seminole War Fort.