Having become Sirdar of the Egyptian Army in 1892-with the rank of brigadier-general and then major-general in the British Army — in 1896 he led his British and Egyptian forces up the Nile, building a railway to supply arms and reinforcements, and defeating the Sudanese at the Battle of Omdurman on 2 September 1898, near Khartoum.

Fort Myers first became a nationally known winter resort with the building of The Royal Palm Hotel in 1898.

The film company spent $ 250, 000 building a replica gunboat named the San Pablo, based on the USS Villalobos -- a former Spanish Navy gunboat that was seized by the U. S. Navy in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish-American War ( 1898 – 99 ) -- but with a greatly reduced draft to allow sailing on the shallow Tam Sui and Keelung rivers.

The Baptist Collegiate Institute operated in the city from 1898 to 1929 ; its main building now houses the city's public library.

* The building now known as The Bastille just north of the old courthouse was the Kings County Jail from 1898 until 1964.

* All Saints Episcopal Church erected in 1898 is the oldest church building in Jensen Beach as well as in Martin County.

The Iron City United Methodist Church was built in 1898 and it still stands today as a historical landmark building.

A new brick building opened in 1898 and was used until 1972.

On April 12, 1898, the first election of the Borough of Totowa was held at the Willard Park Hotel, which would become the unofficial town hall, until the municipal building was completed in 1910.

Hendricks — all of whom were land promoters from Weatherford, Oklahoma — when they learned that the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad ( CO & G ) was coming to the area ( in 1898, the CO & G Railroad completed its western route to Weatherford ; beginning in 1901, it continued building west ).

The Chickasaw capitol building was built in 1897 from local red granite and officially dedicated in 1898.

The two most prominently sited churches stand at the Five Points intersection: the Bare Memorial Church of God ( 1889 – 1930 ), a large brick building supported by the Bare family at East Main and Church Streets, and the Trinity United Methodist Church ( 1898 ), a stone building at East Main and Spang Streets.

The old Barnwell Baptist Church sanctuary continued to serve this newly organized church until the building was demolished in 1898.

The White & Company Bank building, a local landmark since 1898, was severely damaged in the tornado but was rebuilt, and in 1998 reopened as headquarters for the Lancaster Economic Development Corporation.

The Rio Grande Valley really didn't begin its rapid develop until the introduction of irrigation in 1898 and the building of the railroad in 1904.

After several years of meeting at the Methodist Church, the first Baptist building opened in 1889, with the minister John Van Epps Covey ( 1821 – 1898 ) preaching the first sermon in the new structure.

Roslyn's public library, which was founded in 1898, moved into the Roslyn Athletic Club building in 1918 and continues to serve the community.

While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. View of the campus from Coles Tower ( constructed as the " Senior Center "), the second tallest building in Maine Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954.

The school was only three months old when on January 11, 1898, a tornado struck Fort Smith and practically destroyed the new building.

The company was still building coaches, wagons, and carriages according to their business card of 1898.

This neoclassical building was built in 1898 as a private residence of Peter Escárzaga, a wealthy Durangueño miner.

By 1913 Henry Ford had built a new factory in Manchester and was the leading UK producer, building 7310 cars that year, followed by Wolseley at 3000, Humber ( making cars since 1898 in Coventry ) at 2500, Rover ( Coventry car maker since 1904 ) at 1800 and Sunbeam ( producing cars since 1901 ) at 1700, with the plethora of smaller producers bringing the 1913 total up to about 16, 000 vehicles.

For over 30 years ( from 1898 to 1930 ), scoria was quarried from the volcano as building material for Auckland.

In 1898 he gave the Christie Library building, designed by Alfred Waterhouse: the plan connected this on the east with the Whitworth Hall.

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.

During the Spanish – American War of 1898, Fort De Soto was built on Mullet Key.

Soldiers from Fort Snelling fought in the Indian Wars and the Spanish American War of 1898.

On May 20, 1898, the Articles of Incorporation for the town of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma were established under the Arkansas Statutes, placing all of the densely settled areas under one jurisdiction.

* Palisades Amusement Park, Cliffside Park, New Jersey and Fort Lee, New Jersey, ( 1898 – 1971 )

In 1898 Baker had successfully convinced Canadian Pacific Railway to establish their Crowsnest Pass line through Cranbrook rather than nearby Gold Rush Boom Town Fort Steele.

Several impressive construction feats were associated with the GTR: the first successful bridging of the St. Lawrence River on August 25, 1860, with the opening of the first Victoria Bridge at Montreal ( replaced by the present structure in 1898 ); the bridging of the Niagara River between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York ; and the construction of a tunnel beneath the St. Clair River, connecting Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan.

Fearing that they would soon be put out of business, quarry operators responded by working faster: in March 1898 alone, more than three tons of dynamite was used to bring down Washington Head and Indian Head in Fort Lee, New Jersey producing several million cubic yards of traprock.

In 1898, while on recruiting duty at Fort McPherson, he organized the 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry.

The Buffalo Memorial Auditorium began as a public works project to replace an aging civic auditorium ( Buffalo Broadway Auditorium c. 1898, now a highway department garage known as the " Broadway Barns ") and the recently collapsed Peace Bridge Arena across the border in Fort Erie.

Born in Fort Brady, Chippewa County, Michigan, he graduated from Boston College in 1898.

The American flag was raised at Fort Santiago on August 13, 1898 indicating the start of American rule over the city.

On August 13, 1898, the American flag was raised in Fort Santiago signifying the start of the American rule in the Philippines.

In June 1897 he was promoted to Colonel and transferred to the 3rd Cavalry, where he served as commandant of the Cavalry School at Fort Riley until 1898.

* The Story of Old Fort Loudon ( 1898 )

In 1898, the Yukon Gold Rush brought many gold seekers over the portages and through Fort Smith.

" Raising the American flag over Fort Santiago, Manila, on the evening of August 13, 1898.

Hawkins was Commandant of the United States Army Command and General Staff College, then known as the United States Infantry and Cavalry School, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas between October 1894 and April 1898.

In 1898, Summer Street was extended east as a local road, and in 1899 the Summer Street Bridge was built across Fort Point Channel.

He was transferred to Fort Apache, Arizona Territory in July 1897 and then to Vancouver Barracks, Washington in February 1898.

* Gough Battery-upper battery at 160m, was built in 1898 with 2 6-inch guns ; one later replaced by 9. 2-inch guns ; guns removed in 1936 to Stanley Fort

Image: Photograph by Frank Warner NARA collection Fort Delaware. jpg | Construction of Battery Dodd in 1898.