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Fort Brooke at Tampa was established in 1824 by Col. George M. Brooke of the 4th US Infantry on the east bank of the Hillsborough River and became prominent as Army headquarters during the Seminole Indian Wars of 1835-42 and 1855-58. Across the river, at the site of the US Custom House, a Confederate battery with a parapet mounting three 24-pounders and two 6-pound field pieces repulsed landings on three occasions by Federal gunboats after the bombing of Tampa on June 30 and July 1, 1862, and on Oct. 16 and Dec. 25, 1863.
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Tampa, Florida · United States
