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of Home's Douglas. His first real triumph was 

 in 1826 in Othello. In 1836 he appeared in 

 London as Spartacus in The Gladiator. Other 

 notable roles include Virginius, Damon and 

 Lear. His last professional appearance was in 

 1871. 



FORT. See FORTIFICATION. 



FORT COLLINS, COLO., the county seat of 

 Larimer County, is in the northern part of the 

 state, on the Cache la Poudre River and on the 

 Union Pacific and the Colorado & Southern 

 railroads. The population in 1910 was 8,210; 

 in 1916 it was 11,451. Fort Collins occupies 

 an area of over two square miles, on a sandy 

 plain near foothills of the Rocky Mountains. 

 It is the seat of the state agricultural college, 

 in connection with which is a government 

 experiment station. The city has a Federal 

 building, courthouse, Carnegie Library, hos- 

 pital and parks. Sugar beets, potatoes, alfalfa 

 and wheat are important crops of a large sur- 

 rounding irrigated district, and the city has a 

 large sugar-beet factory. 



Fort Collins adopted the commission form 

 of government in 1913. 



FORT DEAR 'BORN, a fort built in 1804 on 

 the site of the present city of Chicago, and 

 famous for the massacre which occurred there 

 on August 15, 1812. On that day the garrison 

 of sixty-seven men, commanded by Captain 

 Heald, evacuated 

 the fort under or- 

 ders from Gen- 

 eral Hull from 

 his headquarters 

 in Detroit. Ac- 

 companied by 

 thirty settlers, in- 

 cluding women 

 and children, and 

 escorted by a 

 band of Miami 

 Indians, he started for Detroit. At a short 

 distance from the fort (near the eastern end 

 of the present Eighteenth Street), they were 

 attacked by a large number of savages, who 

 were joined by most of the escort. Two-thirds 

 of their number were killed, and the rest were 

 captured. The fort was destroyed by the In- 

 dians on the following day, was rebuilt about 

 1816 and razed in 1856. A monument marks 

 the spot of the massacre; it stands about five 

 hundred feet from Lake Michigan. 



Fort Dearborn was named in honor of Gen- 

 eral Henry Dearborn, a prominent figure in 

 the War of 1812. 



FORT DEARBORN 



FORT DODGE, IOWA, the county seat of 

 Webster County, is in the northwestern part 

 of the state, eighty-five miles north and west 

 of Des Moines and 135 miles east of Sioux 

 City. It is on the Des Moines River and on 

 the Illinois Central; the Minneapolis & Saint 

 Louis; the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & South- 

 ern, and the Chicago Great Western railroads. 

 A long steel railway bridge crosses the river 

 at this point. The population was 15,543 in 

 1910 and 20,648 in 1916. The area of the city 

 is nearly four square miles. 



Fort Dodge is the seat of Tobin College. It 

 has a Federal building, courthouse, Carnegie 

 Library and Oleson and Reynold's parks. The 

 city is a trade center for a rich farming coun- 

 try, and in the locality are an extensive gyp- 

 sum bed and deposits of coal, glass sand, clay 

 and brown sandstone. The wholesale trade 

 is extensive. Railroad shops of all four roads 

 entering the city are located here, and other 

 establishments are greenhouses, boiler works 

 and foundries, and manufactories of gypsum 

 and clay products, brick and tile, plaster, oat- 

 meal and shoes. 



Settled in 1854 on the site of a fort built 

 four years previously as a protection against 

 the Indians, Fort Dodge was chartered as a 

 city in 1869. In 1911 the commission form of 

 government was adopted. 



FORT DONELSON. See FORT HENRY AND 

 FORT DONELSON. 



FORT DUQUESNE, dukane', a fort erected 

 by the French in 1754 at the junction of the 

 Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers, around 

 which, in 1764, the city of Pittsburgh was 

 laid out. It was an important French military 

 station, was the objective of numerous attacks 

 by the English, and was finally captured by 

 them in 1758. At the suggestion of General 

 Washington, its name was changed to Fort 

 Pitt, in honor of William Pitt, prime minister 

 of England. The old block house built by 

 General Bouquet in 1763 still stands. See 

 PITTSBURGH. 



FORT FRANCES, fran'ses, the principal 

 town of the Rainy River district, Ontario, a 

 lumbering center and headquarters for hunters 

 and fishermen. It is situated in the extreme 

 western part of the province, on the north 

 bank of Rainy River, which at this point is 

 the boundary between Ontario and Minnesota. 

 On the Minnesota side of the river is the town 

 of International Falls. Fort Frances is 174 

 miles northwest of Duluth, 207 miles southeast 

 of Winnipeg and 232 miles west of Port 



