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Fort Livingston, built on the Gulf to protect New Orleans, can't defend againt nature's destructive forces

Por: The Advocate Entertainment September 26, 2022

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Fort Livingston was built as a defensive bastion, its thick, shell-filled walls designed to absorb cannonballs instead of shattering before them. The real threat to the fort, however, hasn’t been foreign armies or the scabrous pirates that occupied the Gulf-front Grand Terre Island before it. In its 188 years, the sprawling masonry outpost never witnessed active combat. The real threat is, and has always been, nature. Even while it was... + full article



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