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Fort Amherst, in Medway, South East England, was constructed in 1756 at the southern end of the Brompton lines of defence to protect the southeastern approaches to Chatham Dockyard and the River Medway against a French invasion.
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* July 27 – Seven Years War ( French and Indian War ): British troops under Jeffrey Amherst take Fort Ticonderoga.
* Fort Amherst, military facilities in England and Canada
Amherst then led an army against French troops on Lake Champlain, where he captured Fort Ticonderoga in July 1759, while another army under Sir William Johnson took Niagara also in July 1759 and James Wolfe besieged and eventually captured Quebec with a third army in September 1759.
Looking from the river at Sun Pier along the Great Barrier Ditch, to the Gun Platforms at Fort Amherst
The fortifications, which became more elaborate as the threat of invasion grew, were begun in 1756 as a complex across the neck of the peninsula formed by the bend in the River Medway, and included Fort Amherst.
* A statue of the Earl mounted on a horse is on Khartoum Road ( near Fort Amherst ) in Chatham, Kent.
Sabbath Day Point was used a landing place in 1758 for British armies en route to attack the French at Fort Carillion and again in 1759 when General Jeffery Amherst finally succeeded in capturing Fort Carillon.
The town, as part of Medway, is surrounded by two circles of fortresses ; the inner line built during the Napoleonic wars consists of Fort Clarence, Fort Pitt, Fort Amherst and Fort Gillingham.
In 1759, shortly after capturing Ticonderoga without a fight, General Amherst learned of the death of General John Prideaux whose expedition had captured Fort Niagara.
Amherst then ordered Gage to take Prideaux's place, and to take Fort de La Présentation ( also known as Fort La Galette ) at the mouth of the Oswegatchie River on Lake Ontario.
When Amherst learned that the French had also abandoned Fort St. Frédéric, he sent a messenger after Gage with more explicit instructions to capture La Galette and then, if at all possible, to advance on Montreal.
Jeffrey Amherst, now commander in chief of the British forces in America with 12, 000 soldiers, prepared to move against Fort Carillon on July 21, 1759.
When Amherst learned through Sir William Johnson that the Iroquois League was prepared to support British efforts to drive the French out of their frontier forts, he decided to send an expedition to capture Fort Niagara.
Amherst and officers such as Major Henry Gladwin, commander at Fort Detroit, made little effort to conceal their contempt for the Native Americans.
To Colonel Henry Bouquet at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was preparing to lead an expedition to relieve Fort Pitt, Amherst wrote on about June 29, 1763: " Could it not be contrived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians?
Officers at the besieged Fort Pitt had already attempted to do what Amherst and Bouquet were discussing, apparently on their own initiative.
Fort Amherst was the first to be improved ; it was followed by work beginning in 1800 to add others at Fort Pitt, Chatham, plus Fort Delce and Fort Clarence ( both in Rochester ); later in the 19th century others were added, including one at Fort Darland in Gillingham.
Fort and Medway
The outer line of " Palmerston " forts was built during the 1860s in light of the report by The Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom and consists of Fort Borstal, Fort Bridgewood, Fort Luton, and the Twydall Redoubts, with 2 additional forts on islands in the Medway, Fort Hoo and Fort Darnet.
The Dutch had hoped to repeat the success of the Raid on the Medway and a frigate squadron under Van Ghent sailed up the Thames in May but discovered that Sheerness Fort was now too well prepared to pass.
* Billy Childish, foundation 1977 ( who was banned from the Rochester site at Fort Pitt in the Medway Towns in 1981 for publishing ' obscene ' poetry )
Garrison Point Fort lies the other side of the Medway.
Garrison Point Fort from the Medway.
Garrison Point Fort in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent was built on the recommendations of the Royal Commission report in the 1860s opposite Grain Fort to control the entrance to the Medway, Kent.
Slough Fort is a small seven-gun Royal Commission fort built on the Thames, Kent to the west of the entrance to the Medway near Allhallows-on-Sea.
Fort Luton was built between 1876 and 1892 south of Chatham, Medway, South East England.
The Fort Amherst Heritage Trust and Medway Historical Ordnance.
Fort Hoo, like Fort Darnet was built on the recommendations of the 1859 Royal Commission on an island covering the inner navigable channel of the River Medway, in Medway.
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The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.
* Gott, Kendall D. Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry — Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862.
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on a U. S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
* 1861 – American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
Doubleday photo displayed at Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston, South Carolina | Charleston harbor
* 1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
The movie's title is from the nickname for the 41st Police Precinct in the South Bronx which was nicknamed " Fort Apache ".
The Center is located on Crickets Ave, one street over from Buddy Holly Ave, in what used to be the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway Depot.
Poe's regiment was posted to Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina and traveled by ship on the brig Waltham on November 8, 1827.
* Allan MacDonald-Roman Catholic priest, Scottish Gaelic scholar, and pastor in South Uist and Eriskay, was born and brought up in Fort William.
On March 1, Davis appointed General P. G. T. Beauregard to command all Confederate troops in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, where state officials prepared to take possession of Fort Sumter ; Beauregard was to prepare his forces but avoid an attack on the fort.
By the early 1980s, the Bakkers had built Heritage USA in Fort Mill, South Carolina, ( south of Charlotte ), then the third most successful theme park in the US, and a satellite system to distribute their network 24 hours a day across the country.
" Palmetto Traction: Electric Railways of South Carolina " ( No ISBN ) Forty Fort ( PA ), US: Harold E. Cox.
In 1992, he was assigned to Fort Monroe, Virginia as the first Director, Louisiana Maneuvers Task Force, Office of Chief of Staff of the Army, a position held until 1994 when he was reassigned to South Korea as the CJG3 of Combined Forces Command and U. S. Forces Korea.
** In the southeast of the state, South Florida, consisting of the anchor cities of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach.
On April 13, 1861, Confederate troops attacked Union Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina forcing surrender.
South of the health sciences complex, several university residence halls and apartments are clustered together near Fort Douglas and the Heritage Center, which serves as a student center and cafeteria for this area.
Washington State Parks located on the island include Deception Pass State Park ( the most visited state park in Washington ), Joseph Whidbey State Park, Fort Ebey State Park, Fort Casey State Park, Possession Point State Park, and South Whidbey State Park.
* August 17 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter ( the bombardment does not end until Thursday, December 31 ).
* April 12 – The American Civil War begins with the bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
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