Harbor Defense Museum
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Harbor Defense Museum
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The Harbor Defense Museum, sometimes called The Caponier, located within the grounds of Fort Hamilton in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn is a 19th-century fort, New York City's only military museum and one of only seventy military museums in the United States that is funded and operated by the Defense Department. Caponiers, the technical name of the structure that now houses the museum, are outworks; in the case of Fort Hamilton its mission was to protect the main fortress from rear attacks. O
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor_Defense_Museum
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2022-10-13T09:30:30Z
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