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Fortitude

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Fortitude meaning courage or bravery is the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation.

Fortitude may also refer to:

Ships

  • HMS Fortitude, any one of several Royal Navy ships and installations
  • Fortitude (ship), a sailing ship that carried free immigrants to Australia in 1849
  • ST Fortitude, an Admiralty tugboat in service from 1947 to 1962
  • USS Fortitude (AMc-81), a 1941 United States Accentor-class minesweeper
  • Fortitude (1780 EIC ship), a merchant vessel built in 1780 on the River Thames

Places

  • Fortitude Valley, Queensland, a section of Brisbane
    • Fortitude Valley railway station, located beneath the Valley Metro complex
    • Electoral district of Fortitude Valley, a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland

Art, entertainment, and media

  • Fortitude (Botticelli), a 1470 painting
  • Fortitude (play), a 1968 short work by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Fortitude (TV series), a 2015 British drama television series
  • Fortitude (King), a public artwork by artist American James King
  • Patience and Fortitude, the lion sculptures flanking the entrance to the Schwarzman branch of the New York Public Library
  • Fortitude (album), a 2012 Ian Cooke album
  • Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage, a 2020 non-fiction book by Dan Crenshaw

Sports

Other uses

  • Operation Fortitude, a World War II deception operation
  • United Patriots Front, otherwise known as Fortitude, an Australian populist far-right street protest movement and Facebook group

See also

  • Fortitudo (disambiguation)
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