At Fort Ethan Allen the ever-present wind off Lake Champlain could readily flip a puny man-made thing like an airplane if the pilot miscalculated.

At Fort Garry some of the Swiss also decided to cast their lot with the United States, and in 1823 several families paid guides to take them to Fort Snelling.

* 1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

At the end of the War of 1812, Fort Gibson was built and the island remained a military post for nearly 80 years before it was selected to be a federal immigration station.

At midday a small team of Volunteers and Fianna members attacked the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park and disarmed the guards, with the intent to seize weapons and blow up the building as a signal that the rising had begun.

At the age of thirteen, due to his desire to attend the academy there, he relocated to the home of another foster family in Fort Scott, Kansas.

* 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.

At the beginning, there was ambivalence in Nova Scotia, " the 14th American Colony " as some called it, over whether the colony should join the Americans in the war against Britain and rebellion flared at the Battle of Fort Cumberland and the Siege of Saint John ( 1777 )).

At least 10, 000 Jews, most of of Kaunas, largely taken from the Kovno Ghetto, were transported to the Ninth Fort and killed.

At the same time Russians colonized Alaska and even founded settlements in California, like Fort Ross.

At the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, the rockets fired on Fort McHenry by the rocket vessel HMS Erebus were the source of the rockets ' red glare described by Francis Scott Key in The Star-Spangled Banner.

At Fort Riley, McVeigh completed the Primary Leadership Development Course ( PLDC ).

At Fort Vancouver, he served as quartermaster of the 4th Infantry Regiment.

* June 23 – American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory, Confederate General Stand Watie, a Cherokee Indian, surrenders the last significant Rebel army.

* June 2 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.

* July 26 – Seven Years ' War ( French and Indian War ): At the southern end of Lake Champlain, British forces capture Fort Carillon from French, and rename it Fort Ticonderoga.

At Ft. Garland, Colorado south of the Great Sand Dunes on U. S. Highway 160 the Fort Garland Museum is recommended and further south on Colorado State Highway 159 at San Luis, Colorado, the oldest town in Colorado, the bronze sculptures by Huberto Maestas, depicting the Stations of the Cross.

At this time, the Dutch settlers erected some small earthworks and a three-cannon fort above the warehouse, on the hill where Fort George would eventually be built by the English.

At its pinnacle in about 1840, Fort Vancouver and its Factor ( manager ) watched over 34 outposts, 24 ports, 6 ships, and about 600 employees.

At Fort Hall nearly all travelers were given some aid and supplies if they were available and needed.

At Fort Nez Perce some built rafts or hired boats and started down the Columbia ; others continued west in their wagons until they reached The Dalles.

At 16: 30 on 24 February, infantrymen from three companies of the German 24th ( Brandenburg ) regiment entered the centrepiece of the French fortification system: Fort Douaumont.

At Fort Knox, he was a platoon guide and graduated from United States Army Basic Training January 18, 1964, one week before his marriage to Karolyn.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

* November 25 – American Civil War – Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

At the Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, against Breckinridge's advice, Bragg ordered Breckinridge's division to launch a near-suicidal attack on the Union lines on January 2, 1863.

At the close of the war, Lt. Burnside served two years on the western frontier, serving under Captain Braxton Bragg in the 3rd U. S. Artillery, a light artillery unit that had been converted to cavalry duty, protecting the Western mail routes through Nevada to California.

At the start of the Civil War, Wheeler entered the Confederate Army on March 16 as a first lieutenant serving in the Georgia state militia artillery, and then was assigned to Fort Barrancas off of Pensacola, Florida, reporting to Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg.

* " The World Turned Upside Down " by Leon Rosselson, 1975, a song about the Diggers and their activities on St. George's Hill in 1649 ; this song was performed by Billy Bragg on his Between the Wars EP, 1985 ; by Dick Gaughan on Handful of Earth, 1981 ; by Chumbawumba on the b-side of their single " Timebomb ," 1993 ; by Attila the Stockbroker with Barnstormer on The Siege of Shoreham, 1996 ; by Oysterband on their albums Shouting End of life and Alive and Shouting, 1995 and 1996 ; by Clandestine, a Houston-based Celtic group, on their To Anybody At All album, 1999 ; by the Fagans, an Australian folk group, on their album, Turning Fine, 2002 ; and by Seattle Celt-rock band Coventry on the album Red Hair and Black Leather, 2005.

At the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards show in January 2010 Lord Melvyn Bragg said he was baffled by ITV's decision to axe The South Bank Show after 30 years on air.

At first Gen. Braxton Bragg thought he could use Pemberton, but after conferring with his own ranking officers he advised Davis that taking on the discredited lieutenant general " would not be advisable.

At the Battle of Perryville, Polk's right wing constituted the main attacking force against Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio, but Polk was reluctant to attack the small portion of Buell's army that faced him until Bragg arrived at the battlefield.

At 3: 42 a. m. on the morning of February 17, 1970, dispatchers at Fort Bragg received an emergency phone call from MacDonald, who reported a " stabbing ".

At Fort Bragg, cynical newspaper reporter George Beckworth ( David Janssen ) is at a Special Forces briefing about the American military involvement in the war in Vietnam.

At the age of 19, Henry Marrow, Jr. joined the military and was stationed in Fort Bragg in the same state.

At the age of eleven, he joined his father on a ship as an apprentice ; his seagoing career would be marked by headstrong disobedience.

At the time of his arrival in Shahr-i Babak, a formal local governor was engaged in a campaign to drive out the Afghans from the city's citadel, and Hasan Ali Shah joined him in forcing the Afghans to surrender.

At the emperor's further insistence, and for their own protection they took refuge at the convent of Petrion, where eventually they were joined by Irene Doukaina's mother, Maria of Bulgaria.

At an early period he was engaged in buccaneer expeditions to the South Seas and in 1703 joined the expedition of famed privateer and explorer William Dampier.

At the age of twenty-one, he joined the city ’ s Guild of Saint Luke and later became dean.

At Yale, Whorf joined the circle of Sapir's students that included such luminary linguists as Morris Swadesh, Mary Haas, Harry Hoijer, G. L. Trager and Charles F. Voegelin.

At what point during the war Teach joined the fighting is, in keeping with the record of most of his life before he became a pirate, unknown.

At the request of the Huguenots at Metz, he pleaded its cause at the court of King Louis XIV, urging that it should be excepted in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but his efforts were unsuccessful, and he joined his father in Berlin.

At some point during the war he left France and joined the United States Air Force as a paratrooper, although some sources claim that this is a myth.

At a 18 June Presidium meeting at which two Khrushchev supporters were absent, the plotters moved that Bulganin, who had joined the scheme, take the chair, and proposed other moves which would effectively demote Khrushchev and put themselves in control.

At the age of 13 he read Thomas's Elpis Israel and was subsequently baptised in 1853 at the age of 14 in the River Dee and joined the " Baptised Believers ".

At other times it joined gods with very different natures, as when Amun, the god of hidden power, was linked with Ra, the god of the sun.

At dinner that evening, the crew observed a man approaching the ship who was shortly joined by eight to ten others.

At the same time, Benito Mussolini joined the interventionist cause in a separate fasci.

Chapman, Cleese, and Tim Brooke-Taylor later joined Feldman in the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show.

At first it was just Roy and Buck, and later on the entire cast joined in.

At one point in its history, the southwest corner of Hanover was known as Dresden, which in the 1780s joined other disgruntled New Hampshire towns along the Connecticut River that briefly defected to what was then the independent Republic of Vermont.

At one point during his career, in an effort to get fit after an injury, in March 1980 he joined the football club Scunthorpe United, where he played as a centre half and made 11 appearances in the Football League.

At the age of 18, Gödel joined his brother in Vienna and entered the University of Vienna.

At age twelve, Moon joined his local Sea Cadet Corps band as a bugle player but traded his position to be a drummer.

At age 17, Moon joined The Who as a replacement for drummer Doug Sandom.

At age eleven he joined a breakdance crew called the Furious Funkers, and taught himself to work a cheap belt-driven turntable.

At Verberie, Louis the German joined him.

At the end of 1990, along with his Formula 3 rivals Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Karl Wendlinger, he joined the Mercedes junior racing programme in the World Sports-Prototype Championship.

At Namur it is joined by the River Sambre.