Fort de Rocher

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Fort de Rocher
Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Fortress on the Carribbean island of Tortuga

Fort de Rocher was a seventeenth-century fortress on the Caribbean island of Tortuga, northwest of Haiti. It was built and utilized by buccaneers as the primary defense of the island to prevent encroachment of Spanish forces. The fortress lies in ruin today, with only the foundations remaining.

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Place
La Tortuga

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