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Fort Moultrie II was an enclosed five-sided earthwork, partly faced with brick and surrounded by a ditch and glacis. Within the fort were a hot-shot furnace, powder magazine, and bombproof, while officers’ quarters, enlisted men’s barracks, and the bake oven stood behind it. Completed in 1798 in response to disagreements with France, it had a short life and was wrecked by a hurricane in 1804. It was redesigned to protect Charleston against small sailing frigates, but it could not have stood against ships-of-the-line.
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Sullivan's Island, South Carolina · United States
