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Fort Howard is the name of a former military installation of the Spanish American War named by Elihu Root, Secretary of War under President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 after Colonel John Eager Howard (1752–1827). The installation earned the nickname the "Bulldog at Baltimore's Gate" serving as the coastal artillery headquarters for Baltimore, Maryland. Fort Howard's historical significance is its military connection with the War of 1812, the Spanish–American War, and World War II. ==Location== Fort Howard is located in the present-day unincorporated community and census designated place of Fort Howard, Maryland 21052 and strategically situated overlooking the geographic entrance to the Patapsco River from the Chesapeake Bay at the terminal end of the North Point peninsula which is surrounded by Back River to the east, Old Roads Bay to the west, and the Patapsco River to the south forming the three water boundaries of the peninsula.
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