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* 1856 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
The largest of these installations were the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Ceiba, the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, and the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility ( AFWTF ) on Vieques ( all now closed ), the National Guard training facility at Camp Santiago in Salinas, the Army's Fort Buchanan in San Juan, the former U. S. Air Force Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, and the Puerto Rico Air National Guard at Muñiz Air Force base in San Juan.
The commanding officer at Fort Humbolt, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Robert C. Buchanan, a strict disciplinarian, had reports that Grant was intoxicated off duty while seated at the pay officer's table.
* November 17 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
* Fort Buchanan, Arizona
To help control the new land, the U. S. Army established Fort Buchanan on Sonoita Creek in present-day southern Arizona on November 17, 1856.
In June 1857 it established Fort Buchanan south of the Gila at the head of the Sonoita Creek Valley.
Magdalena, Sonora, became a supply center for Tubac, wheat from nearby Cucurpe fed the troops at Fort Buchanan, and the town of Santa Cruz sustained the Mowry mines, just miles to the north.
In his 1991 book Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce From Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec, philosophy professor Allen Buchanan outlined limited rights to secession under certain circumstances, mostly related to oppression by people of other ethnic or racial groups, and especially those previously conquered by other peoples.
* Allen Buchanan, Secession: The Morality Of Political Divorce From Fort Sumter To Lithuania And Quebec, Westview Press, 1991.
* Fort Buchanan, Arizona, a former United States Army base in Arizona
* Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, the only active U. S. Army installation in the Caribbean
In 1860, while in command of Fort Buchanan, Arizona, illness compelled him to leave the West for Virginia to recuperate.
Fish's private secretary had aided the efforts of the Star of the West, an American merchant ship sent by President James Buchanan to bring relief supplies to Major Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter.
United States Army Garrison Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico is the U. S. Army ’ s only active military installation in Puerto Rico.
There is a link between the history of Fort Buchanan and the history of the U. S. Army in Puerto Rico that dates back to the 19th century during the Spanish – American War.
The military installation, Fort Buchanan, was named after Brigadier General James A. Buchanan, the first commander of the Puerto Rico Regiment.
In May 1940 the location was designated as Fort Buchanan and expanded initially to 1, 514 and later to 4, 500 acres.
During World War II, Fort Buchanan housed a depot supplying the Army Antilles Department.
At the time, Fort Buchanan served as a citizens training camp and soldier processing station.
On December 31, 1966, with the deactivation of the Antilles Command, Fort Buchanan came under the U. S. Navy control.
On December 7, 1971 the Army took back Fort Buchanan under the control of Third U. S. Army.
On July 1, 1973 Fort Buchanan came under direct control of Forces Command ( FORSCOM ).

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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.
The family relocated in early 1858 to Fort Riley, where they remained for three years.
The defense group, centered around Fort Wayne, IN, remained independent under the Magnavox Electronic Systems name, first under Philips and later in the Carlyle Group, until it was acquired by Hughes Electronics in 1995.
However, the underground casemates of Fort Vaux still remained under French control.
* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )
Rose then remained at Fort Knox to assist the sergeant in training the next platoon and to help another sergeant train the Fort's baseball team.
When the French attacked, they were able to surprise the English at the critical strongpoint of Fort Nieulay and the sluice gates, which could have flooded the attackers, remained unopened.
Although most of Virginia became part of the Confederate States of America, Fort Monroe remained in Union hands.
Fort Stikine remained under British rule until Alaska's purchase by the United States in 1867.
In 1868, the U. S. built a military post called Fort Wrangell at the site, and it remained active until 1877.
The name remained unchanged until 1860 when local citizens successfully petitioned the postal department to change the name to Fort Jones, a name that is retained to the present day.
Although the town has remained virtually unchanged in recent decades, the encroaching growth of both Fort Collins to the west and Windsor to the south have placed the town in an area considered favorable to development.
Though population remained steady throughout the 20th century, Wellington experienced moderate growth in the 1990s and 2000s, rendering it a sort of bedroom community for the city of Fort Collins, which lies 10 miles to the South.
The installation, however, remained on the real property records of the 15th Air Base Wing until 15 March 1993 when an Action Memorandum signed by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force ( Environment, Safety and Occupational Health ) and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army ( Installations and Housing ) authorized the exchange of Wheeler AFB for Fort Kamehameha Military Reservation.
When a road from Hoboken to Fort Lee was built through the site in 1858, an inscription on a boulder where a mortally wounded Hamilton was thought to have rested — one of the many pieces of graffiti left by visitors — was all that remained.
Until the 1940s Killeen remained a relatively small and isolated farm trade center, but this changed drastically after 1942, when Camp Hood ( re-commissioned as Fort Hood in 1950 ) was created as a military training post to meet the demands of the Second World War.
The town grew quickly through the 19th century as Fort Clark grew, but the town's existence remained very strongly tied to Fort Clark's fortunes.
After the Buffalo Soldiers moved out of Fort Clark, the fort remained a cavalry post, and virtually every cavalry unit in the U. S. Army was stationed at or trained at Fort Clark at one time or another.
After the Hudson's Bay Company absorbed the North West Company in 1821 operations at the Spokane House eventually shifted to Fort Colville ; afterward the company still remained active near Spokane.
Blair Castle remained popular, but additional castles joined the circuit – Cawdor Castle became popular once the railway line reached north to Fort William.
As a result of her heroism, Fort Henry remained in American control.
The division remained in Germany until September 1968 when it redeployed two brigades to Fort Riley as part of the REFORGER ( Return of Forces to Germany ) program.
The Union forces withdrew to Fort Monroe across Hampton Roads, which was the only land in the area which remained under Union control.

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