title: Fort Tompkins (Sackets Harbor, New York)
text: # Fort Tompkins (Sackets Harbor, New York)
  
  Fort Tompkins (1812–1815) was a redoubt at Sackets Harbor, New York. A minor redoubt in a fortified line of four such "forts" (Kentucky, Virginia, Chauncey, Stark) anchored at Fort Pike (later Madison Barracks) on the bay, protecting the land side of Sackets Harbor.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs: Military History
  