Fort Pulaski

American  

noun

1. a fort in E Georgia, at the mouth of the Savannah River: captured by Union forces in 1862; now a national monument.

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Example Sentences

Fort Pulaski: Why do we have an entire fort named for the second-best doctor on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”?

From Washington Post • Jul. 24, 2018

The 18-mile stretch from the Savannah River’s mouth at Fort Pulaski National Monument out into the Atlantic Ocean is now 49-feet deep and more than 500-feet wide.

From Washington Times • Jun. 13, 2018

A tide of more than 11 feet at Fort Pulaski near Savannah was the second-highest on record.

From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2016

Mr. Toombs also introduced a resolution, which was unanimously adopted, "That the Convention highly approves the energetic and patriotic conduct of Governor Brown in seizing Fort Pulaski."

From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Stovall, Pleasant A.

On the subject of conscription Davis and the Governor of Georgia—that same Joseph E. Brown who had seized Fort Pulaski in the previous year—exchanged a rancorous correspondence.

From The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)