Fort Box

Fort Box, 1776, Kings County, Brooklyn. Battle of Long Island. A small diamond shaped outpost constructed on Bergen's Hill in May to June 1776. Site was on or near present day Pacific Street above Bond Street. Named for Maj. Daniel Box. One of a line of entrenchments for the Battle of Long Island from Fort Box at marshes near Gowanus Bay to Fort Greene to Oblong Redoubt to Fort Putnam to Left Redoubt at Wallabout Bay. Each work was a complete entity surrounded with a wide ditch, sides lined with pointed stakes, and each had sally-ports. Most of the line also had abatises. After American evacuation the British didn't use it. In War of 1812 Fort Fireman may have been built on or near same site.

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