Fort Wallace is a military fort in Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online in the Cumberland Forest region of the New Hanover territory.
The fort itself is situated in northern part of Cumberland Forest, New Hanover. It is located on the south coast of the Dakota River, southwest of Bacchus Station.
Design[]
The fort is constructed of timber palisade walls with four large blockhouse-style towers connected by rampart pathways. There are five interior buildings, including a stable and a stockade prison.
Interactions[]
Fort Wallace is a restricted area, and the player will be ordered to stay back from the premises by U.S. Army soldiers if they draw too close, and shooting off any firearm will instantaneously result in retaliation.
Events of Red Dead Online[]
By 1898, the fort is occupied by Samson Finch's former Army unit, who are in fact rogue soldiers conspiring commit a series of robberies. After having previously double-crossed Samson, the soldiers had intended to raid Cornwall Kerosene & Tar and rob the industrialists within the refinery. During "Kerosene, Tar, and Greed", Samson, through his connections with Horley, recruits a group of outlaws to serve as his new accomplices, and instructs them to attack the refinery before the soldiers could. Samson does not directly participate in the attack, in the hopes of throwing off the suspicion of his involvement so his former unit won't retaliate against him. During "More Than One Way To Earn a Buck", Samson decides to remove the threat posed by his former unit completely, and tasks his new partners to storm Fort Wallace, slaughter the rogue soldiers, and destroy ammunition stockpile that they intended to use for their own robberies.
Events of Red Dead Redemption 2[]
By 1899, Colonel Henry Favours leads the regiment at Fort Wallace, and is charged with overseeing the Wapiti Indian Reservation. However, due to Leviticus Cornwall's manipulations and an unsatisfactory military career, Favours instructs his soldiers to antagonize the Wapiti Indians in the hopes of goading them into a one-sided fight and later seizing the reservation lands which are supposedly oil-rich. Angered Wapiti Indians and the Van der Linde gang attempt to rob an Army convoy, but they are quickly routed by cannon fire from Fort Wallace, and Eagle Flies is captured as a result and imprisoned in the fort.
Before the army could execute Eagle Flies, Charles, in the hopes of rescuing him, scouts out the fort and finds that there is a way in through the back. He leads Arthur across the river, so they avoid detection They wait until night when the patrols leave, before killing the sentries in the front of the fort and sneaking to the back. Then, they use ropes to get into the fort, and silently dispatch the guards on the walls. They then take the prison, and grab Eagle Flies. Arthur blows a hole in the wall using dynamite, and they fight their way to canoes, which they use to get as far away from the fort as possible.
Trivia[]
- The construction of the fort is reminiscent of a blockhouse fort with palisade walls. The design in anachronistic, and would not have been used by United States Army forces during this time period.
- A real-life Fort Wallace existed in Kansas during the Indian Wars on the Great Plains (ca. 1865 to 1882). It was occupied by United States Cavalry troops,
- It is not obvious whether the troops at Fort Wallace are United States Army cavalrymen or infantrymen; the blue shoulder board rank insignia on Captain Monroe's uniform indicates that he was an officer of an infantry unit, but it was far more common for cavalry units to travel mounted and engage Native Americans on the western frontier post-Civil War.
- As a colonel, Favours would have commanded a regiment; however, during this time period, a regiment consisted of eight to ten companies, which could easily comprise over one thousand men. A post the size of Fort Wallace would have been garrisoned by perhaps a single company at most, under command of a captain, or perhaps a major overseeing multiple companies in the surrounding area. The regimental colonel would have been typically posted at headquarters in a larger installation with the full detail of administrative staff.
- At some point in development, the fort was located in Grizzlies East, around the area where the Meditating Monk is in the final game. This can be seen by opening the map index and bringing the map cursor to the "GR" in Grizzlies east. The index erroneously claims the location is "Fort Wallace, Grizzlies East" and displays the "Wanted Dead or Alive" message used for restricted areas next to the cursor.
- To the southwest by the road is a mail coach with a lockbox. Within is Ginseng Elixir and a Letter to Henrietta Douglas, Letter to Judge Finley, Letter to Miriam Wegner, Letter to the Saint Denis Times Tribune, and Letter to William Errington.
- Note the below can only be obtained from "The King's Son" until the start of "Our Best Selves".
- On a crate at the base of the northwest tower is the Cigarette Card for the Turkoman.
- On the western side of the Fort is a lean-to. On the table within is the Cigarette Card for Emmet Granger.
- On a windowsill at the top of the southeast tower is the Cigarette Card for Leviticus Cornwall.
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