Ft. Pickens Casemate
Ft. Pickens was built in 1834 to defend the Pensacola Bay (Florida) coastline from foreign invasion. This fort was used for over 100 years until missiles, airpl...
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Ft. Pickens was built in 1834 to defend the Pensacola Bay (Florida) coastline from foreign invasion. This fort was used for over 100 years until missiles, airplanes and bombs made harbor forts obsolete. Most of he fort consisted of gun emplacements both on top and within the walls. The granite semi-circles on the floor supported the great weight of the cast iron guns. Vents over the windows allowed the huge amounts of smoke produced by black powder ammunition to disperse. The canon had an effective range of about one mile.
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