2007-02-17 00:12:49 · 6 answers · asked by mani v 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Fort is to house as fortress is to castle.
2007-02-17 00:17:41 · answer #1 · answered by angrysandwichguy_2007 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My dictionary says that a fort is only occupied by soldiers and may be a temporarily reinforced place, but a fortress is a large and permanent fortification that may include a town. So I guess that a fortress is bigger and more permanently built. However, they are both pretty general terms nowadays, and I think most people use them interchangeably. The word fort is used by the U.S, Army to designate many huge and very permanent installations, like Fort Belvoir, Fort Knox, Fort A.P. Hill, etc. Most of these don't have any real fortifications. They are inhabited by soldiers, but have many civilian workers who commute from nearby towns. On the other hand many small castles are called fortresses. So there is a lot of overlap in the modern usage. In the days before airplanes, when walls were more important to defending a place, the distinction was probably more sharply defined.
2016-05-23 22:15:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fort is a fortified place stationed with troops, or a permanent army post. A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified
place, occupied only by troops
A fortress is a fortified place, especially a large, permanent military stronghold that includes a town, designed for defense in warfare.
Many military installations are known as forts, although they are not always fortified. Larger forts may class as fortresses, smaller ones formerly often bore the name of fortalices.
The only real difference in the two is that a fortress had civilians living inside of it on a permanent basis and could house civilians in it, from the surrounding countryside(...those who were vassals of the knight, king, whoever, who housed in the fortress) in times of war.
2007-02-17 00:39:28 · answer #3 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a fort is a boy and a fortress is a girl. . . just kidding. i dont really know. i think a fort is like someplace that was just quickly set up in a war, and a fortress took time and effort to build and it has been there for a while. i dont really know though. good luck!
2007-02-17 00:24:03 · answer #4 · answered by stevie_girl 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
fort = anyone can come in
fortress = nobody comes in without a fight
2007-02-17 00:22:47 · answer #5 · answered by cwb63ss 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a fort has big poontang logs
2007-02-17 00:15:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋