1 Some cannons can still be fired. Fort St. Catherine and Fort Scaur are two places where working cannons can be found.

2 Many forts have examples of real shells. Shells look just like giant bullets!

3 Fort Victoria, a major fort in St. George's, is being knocked down to make way for a new hotel.

4 A casemate is a design made with bricks that makes a fort's roof very strong. This was so forts could stand up to cannon fire.

5 The walls of forts can be up to 25 feet thick.

6 Huge numbers of soldiers who manned the forts in the 1800s died of yellow fever.

7 Each fort's magazine (where gunpowder and explosives were stored) had a specially designed roof. The roof would blow off if the gunpowder exploded, but the walls would stay standing.

8 Experts guess that there may have been about 90 forts built in Bermuda. Many of them were built over with newer forts.

9 Archeologists are still uncovering tunnels and cannons in some of the forts around Bermuda.

10 There is a cave underneath Casemates barracks.