Fort Saulsbury

Fort Saulsbury
Fort Saulsbury
Part of Harbor Defenses of the Delaware
Slaughter Beach, Delaware
	12-inch M1895 gun on M1917 high-angle barbette carriage at Fort Mills, Corregidor, Philippines, similar to the guns at Fort Saulsbury.
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Coordinates	38°56′03″N 75°19′50″W / 38.93417°N 75.33056°W
Type	Coastal Defense and POW camp
Site information
Owner	private
Controlled by	private
Open to; the public	no
Site history
Built	1924
Built by	United States Army
In use	1924–1946
Battles/wars	World War II

Fort Saulsbury was a United States Army coastal defense fort near Slaughter Beach and Milford, Delaware.^[1] From 1924 to 1943 it was the primary heavy gun defense in the Harbor Defenses of the Delaware. In 1943 it was itself superseded by the longer-range 16-inch guns of Fort Miles at Cape Henlopen, Delaware, to which two of Fort Saulsbury's four guns were relocated. Fort Saulsbury was named for Willard Saulsbury Sr., a former US Senator from Delaware.

^ Colbert, Judy (2013). It Happened in Delaware: Remarkable Events that Shaped History (1st ed.). Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press. pp. 64–65. ISBN 9780762795765. Retrieved 22 December 2015.