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* Fort Stanwix Construction and Military History, by John F. Luzader, 2001, ISBN 1-888213-53-1
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* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
* 1768 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
The 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix opened Kentucky to colonial settlement and established the Ohio River as a southern boundary for American Indian territory.
The western pincer, under the command of Barry St. Leger, was repulsed when the Siege of Fort Stanwix failed, and the southern pincer, which was to progress up the Hudson valley from New York City, never started since General William Howe decided instead to capture Philadelphia.
* Fort Stanwix National Monument
At the same time, news had arrived about the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, in which the Iroquois had ceded their claim to Kentucky to the British.
Following the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, American Indians in the region had been debating what to do about the influx of settlers.
The land which became Sullivan County was originally purchased from the Iroquois by the Province of Pennsylvania in 1768, as part of the first Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
George Washington was known to stop in Mohawk to have lunch at the Shoemaker Tavern on his way to and from Fort Stanwix in Rome, NY.
The town of Edmeston, in Otsego County, extends to the west as far as the Unadilla River, a line that was established by the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix between the British and the Iroquois, negotiated by Sir William Johnson.
* Peter Gansevoort commanded Fort Stanwix when it was besieged during the American Revolution.
With the signing of the first Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768, the British gained control from the Iroquois of lands south of the West Branch.
In 1784, the second Treaty of Fort Stanwix, between the Iroquois and the United States, transferred most of the remaining Indian territory in Pennsylvania, including what would become Lock Haven, to the state.
Fort Stanwix is named for him.
The tree marked the eastern boundary of the territory acquired by the Penn family from the Six Nations of the Iroquois at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix on November 5, 1769.
The Treaty of Fort Stanwix and the Treaty of Hard Labour ( both 1768 ) and the Treaty of Lochaber ( 1770 ) opened much of what is now West Virginia and Kentucky to British settlement.
The land between Lycoming and Pine Creeks was outside of the legal boundaries of Pennsylvania until 1784 and the second Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
Larry Burt was already there when surveyors came through in 1769 ( after the land was purchased in the first Treaty of Fort Stanwix ), but disappeared sometime soon after, perhaps moving west with the Native Americans who left the area.
Caldwell obtain legal rights to the land he has settled in 1784 following the second Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
The land was ceded by the Iroquois Six Nations officially by the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768 to Penn family as proprietors of Pennsylvania province.
* Four areas of the National Park Service ( Michigan's Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Wisconsin's St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, New York's Fort Stanwix National Monument, and Ohio's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park )
His expedition was forced to retreat after losing Indian support in the siege of Fort Stanwix.
Schuyler took the measure in April 1777 of sending a large regiment under Colonel Peter Gansevoort to rehabilitate Fort Stanwix in the upper Mohawk valley as a step in defending against British movements in that area.
Leaving Oswego on July 25, they marched to Fort Stanwix on the Mohawk River, and began besieging it on August 2.
Fort and Construction
* 1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
Construction on the star-shaped fort, which Lotbinière based on designs of the renowned French military engineer Vauban, began in October 1755 and then proceeded slowly during the warmer-weather months of 1756 and 1757, using troops stationed at nearby Fort St. Frédéric and from Canada.
Construction began on the new Fort Montgomery in March 1776.
Construction of Fort De Soto, on Mullet Key facing the mouth of Tampa Bay, was begun in 1898 during the Spanish-American War to protect Tampa Bay from potential invading forces.
Construction of Texas State Highway 290 linking Fort Stockton to Big Bend National Park gave a boost to the tourism dollar.
Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and Cuban Missile Crisis the following year witnessed heightened alert for soldiers stationed at Fort Riley.
Construction was completed on the facilities on May 26, 1954, but the Fort Terry was officially transferred to the USDA on July 1, 1954.
Construction on Plum Island's new laboratory Building 101 began around July 1, 1954, around the same time that the Army's anti-animal bio-warfare ( BW ) facilities at Fort Terry were transferred to the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
* 1875 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway begins in June at Fort William, Ontario.
Construction began on the first Fort de Chartres ( in present-day Illinois ) in 1718 and was completed in 1720.
Construction of the Khammam Fort ( India ) was initiated around 950 when the Telugu area ( now Andhra Pradesh ) was ruled by the Kakatiya dynasty ( 10th – 13th century ).
Construction on Fort Pickens lasted from 1829 to 1834, with 21. 5 million bricks being used to build the fort.
( 1824 ) Construction of Fort Brooke begins at the mouth of the Hillsborough River.
Construction began at the same time of a US Army Air Force airfield, Kindley Field, attached to Fort Bell, and which later became Kindley AFB.
Construction was started in the middle of January 1942 and was commissioned by April of the same year, being given the name Fort Glenn.
Construction began in April 1863, with Crownhill Fort being at the cutting edge of fortress design, although it does conform to the standard polygonal design of its contemporaries.
* Kiewit Texas Construction L. P., Fort Worth, Texas
Construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in the early 1960s did away with several historic structures, including Fort Lafayette, which was located near the Brooklyn shore where the bridge tower now rises from the water.
Construction continued through 1908 to extend the line north to Ranier, Minnesota where the DW & P bridged the Rainy River on the Canada – United States border to cross into Fort Frances, Ontario and an interchange with the CNoR mainline between Winnipeg, Manitoba and Port Arthur ,( Thunder Bay ) Ontario.
Image: Galle Dutch Fort cricket ground. jpg | Galle Stadium under Construction
Construction of the second interurban line in the State of Texas linked the city of Fort Worth with the city of Dallas to the east with operations commencing on July 1, 1902.
Construction began on Fort Totten in 1862 after the land was purchased by the U. S. Government in 1857 from the Willets family.
* 1957 – Construction of the SIFOR sisal weaving factory just outside Fort Dauphin.
Construction upon the island's " South Fort " began in spring of 1878, being completed in 1880.
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