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Dix, Fort
(Encyclopedia) Dix, Fort: see Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.Fort-Bayard
(Encyclopedia) Fort-Bayard: see Zhanjiang, China.Fort Benning
(Encyclopedia) Fort Benning, U.S. army post, 189,000 acres (76,500 hectares), W Ga., S of Columbus; est. 1918. One of the largest army posts in the United States, it is the nation's largest infantry…Fort Bragg
(Encyclopedia) Fort Bragg, U.S. army base, 11,136 acres (4,507 hectares), E N.C., N of Fayetteville; est. 1918. Originally an artillery post, it is now the principal U.S. army airborne-training…Fort Dix
(Encyclopedia) Fort Dix: see Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.Fort Frontenac
(Encyclopedia) Fort Frontenac: see Kingston, Ont., Canada.Fort Knox
(Encyclopedia) Fort Knox [for Henry Knox], U.S. military reservation, 110,000 acres (44,515 hectares), Hardin and Meade counties, N Ky.; est. 1917 as a training camp in World War I. It became a…Fort-Lamy
(Encyclopedia) Fort-Lamy: see Ndjamena, Chad.Raleigh, Fort
(Encyclopedia) Raleigh, Fort: see Roanoke Island.Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro
(Encyclopedia) Menéndez de Avilés, PedroMenéndez de Avilés, Pedropāˈᵺrō mānānˈdĕth dā ävēlāsˈ [key], 1519–74, Spanish naval officer and colonizer, founder of Saint Augustine, Fla. He went to sea as a…