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Constructed 1813-1816. Established 1813. Named after Leonard W. Covington. Abandoned 1834. Also known as Fort Patapsco or Fort Wadsworth (named after Col. Decius Wadsworth, Chief of U.S. Ordnance Department).
Fort Covington was a pie-slice-shaped, semi-circular fortress constructed 1.5 miles due west of Fort McHenry defending Baltimore, Maryland. It was designed by Captain Samuel Babcock, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
It had a surrounding ten-foot high brick wall and 16 foot deep ditch in front of a parapet designed to mount ten to twelve 18-pdr. guns. There was a barracks and magazine inside it.
At the 1814 Battle of Baltimore it had seven 18-pdrs. mounted en-barbette and was manned by a naval company. On the evening 13 September 1814, Fort Covington and nearby Fort Babcock and Fort Look-Out repulsed the British fleet.
Nothing remains of the fort.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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