The story
You're standing in the Battery, at the very bottom of Manhattan, in front of a low, round fort.
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The Fort That Fired at Nobody
Castle Clinton in the Battery, New York
3 min story9-stop walk
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1Brooklyn Bridge
The Woman Who Carried a Rooster AcrossPhoto: Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
2City Hall Park
The Pole the Soldiers Kept Chopping DownPhoto: Momos, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
3Woolworth Building
The Five-and-Dime CathedralPhoto: Martin Furtschegger, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
4St. Paul's Chapel
The Little Chapel That StoodPhoto: ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
59/11 Memorial
Leaving the Footprints Open to the SkyPhoto: NormanB, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
6Trinity Church
The Church That Owned Manhattan's FarmlandPhoto: Gryffindor (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
7Federal Hall
The Balcony Where Washington Took the OathPhoto: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
8Fraunces Tavern
Rebels at the Queen's HeadPhoto: Jim.henderson (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
9You're hereCastle Clinton in the Battery
The Fort That Fired at NobodyPhoto: Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sources
Written from public sources, every claim checked against them, narrated by a synthetic voice.