A Third-System fort completed in was built on Foster's Bank between 1833 and 1844. It was intended to protect the Warrington Navy Yard at Pensacola in conjuntion with Fort Pickens.
As of 1851, it was intended to be armed with twenty-four 42-pounder guns, twenty-four 32-pounder guns, sixty two 24-pounder guns, three field pieces, thirty-six 8" heavy seacoast howizters and two 10" heavy mortars for a total of 151 guns.
Fort McRee was seized by the Confederacy in 1861, and was rendered combat ineffective that November by a major bombardment from Pickens and the steam sloops Richmond and Niagara.
Erosion and a 1906 hurricane have since left what little remains of Fort McRee underwater.
More modern fortifications of the same name were built on Perdido Key to the west of this site from the Endicott period through WWII.
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