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Fort Pitt was a fort in what is now Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It was named Fort Pitt for William Pitt the Elder after the British under General John Forbes captured the French-held Fort Duquesne in 1758. They destroyed the old fort and rebuilt it with a moat.
For a brief while in the 1770s the fort was called Fort Dunmore, in honour of Virginia's Governor Lord Dunmore.
Fort Pitt is also a fort built between 1805 and 1819 on the high ground of the boundary between Chatham and Rochester. Kent, it didn't last long, becoming a hospital for invalided soldiers in 1828, with an asylum added in 1849. Florence Nightingale started the first Army Medical School there in 1860, but by the 1920s the hospital was closed, and the site converted into a school.
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