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Fort Pitt, Kent

Fort Pitt is 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 invalid 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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