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Fort Hancock: A Bastion of America's Eastern Seaboard
is a lesson that uses this fort, built in the late 1800s to defend New York Harbor, as the basis for examining issues in U.S. defense policy and military preparedness during that time.
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National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places
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