Fort Hughes
WW2-era fort in the Philippines / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the coastal fort in the Philippines. For other locations, see Fort Hughes (disambiguation).
Fort Hughes was built by the Philippine Department of the U.S. Army on Caballo Island in the Philippines in the early 1900s.[1][2] The fort, which part of the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays, was named for Major General Robert Patterson Hughes, a veteran of the American Civil War, Spanish–American War, and the Philippine–American War.[3]
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Caballo Island, Philippines | |
Part of Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays | |
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Controlled by | United States |
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Built | completed 1914 |
Built by | United States Army Corps of Engineers |
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