Fort Greene (Newport, Rhode Island)

Fort Greene in Newport, Rhode Island was a small fort built circa 1794 at Battery Park in the Point section of Newport, last active in the War of 1812.[1] It was named for General Nathanael Greene of the Revolutionary War, who was born in Rhode Island.[2][3] The seawall remains from Fort Greene and is curved at this point.[4] Fort Greene mounted approximately 12 guns and was intended to house a company of about 100 men, but was never completed.[5] The fort was described in the Secretary of War's report on fortifications for December 1811 as "an elliptical stone battery... now in a state of ruin".
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