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

He mustered the state militia and seized Fort Pulaski.

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

General Gillmore had become famous as the captor of Fort Pulaski, under circumstances that had seemed to render success impossible; and hence it was expected that he would quickly take Charleston.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various