The Invader of Fort Duckburg

"The Invader of Fort Duckburg"
Original cover of The Invader of Fort Duckburg. Art by Don Rosa.
Story code	D 93227
Story	Don Rosa
Ink	Don Rosa
Hero	Scrooge McDuck
Pages	15
Layout	4 rows per page
Appearances	Scrooge McDuck Blackheart Beagle Humperdink Duck Daphne Duck Eider Duck Fulton Gearloose Grandma Duck Hortense McDuck Matilda McDuck Quackmore Duck Beagle Boys The Junior Woodchucks Theodore Roosevelt

"The Invader of Fort Duckburg" is a 1994 Scrooge McDuck comic by Don Rosa. It is the tenth of the original 12 chapters in the series The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. The story takes place in 1902.

The story was first published in the Danish Anders And & Co. #1994-10; the first American publication was in Uncle Scrooge #294, in October 1995.

Plot

The first three Junior Woodchucks are expelled from their former headquarters, the ruins of Fort Duckburg, recently bought by Scrooge McDuck. To reclaim the fort, they appeal to a "higher authority" by wire, which turns out to be an all-ears U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt:

Attorney General William Henry Moody: They say a billionaire from Scotland has seized a military installation on the coast!
Roosevelt: Great jumping Jehoshaphat! The three dangers that I campaign strongest against - big business, foreign interference, and military threats to our shores - all rolled into one! Egad!

At the same time, the Beagle Boys - Blackheart Beagle's sons, recently released from jail - invade the Fort to steal Scrooge's barrels of money, but they are interrupted when the Fort is surrounded by the entire United States Army and Navy, as well as the Rough Riders, led by a furious Roosevelt in person.

After an enduring battle fought pretty much against Scrooge alone, eventually the President's troops fold against the infamous temper of Scrooge's sister Hortense. Roosevelt charges through the gate alone, only for he and Scrooge to recognize each other from their meeting in Montana years ago and fondly share a weenie roast inside the fort, which Matilda glumly says is not what she and Hortense had in mind when they imagined their newly wealthy family being invited to dine with the President.

When the McDuck siblings first arrive in Duckburg to inspect the property, Hortense also meets her future husband, farmer's son Quackmore Duck (Donald Duck's father).