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Greenville was named after Fort Greene Ville ( now Greenville ), Ohio, the site where General Anthony Wayne signed a treaty with the Native Americans after defeating them in the Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794.
Incidentally, Fort Greene Ville, Ohio, was named after Nathaniel Greene, a friend of Wayne.
In November 1776, a farmer from Closter witnessed British troops landing at Closter Dock on the Hudson River and rode to Fort Lee to warn Continental Army General Nathaniel Greene, allowing the Americans the opportunity to retreat to Hackensack at New Bridge Landing ahead of the British along with the remnants of General George Washington's troops after the failed Battle of Fort Washington.
Fort Greene Ville, now Greenville, the Darke County seat, is 5 miles to the north ; Fort Black, now New Madison, is located 5 miles to the south.
Lahiri lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn with her husband and their two children, Octavio ( b. 2002 ) and Noor ( b. 2005 ).
Club Steppers performing at the 2007 Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival in Brooklyn
1908: Brooklyn Academy of Music opens new home on Lafayette Ave ( Fort Greene ); gala features Met Opera ( Geraldine Farrar / Enrico Caruso in Gounod ’ s Faust )
After the building burned to the ground on November 30, 1903, plans were made to relocate to a new facility in the then fashionable neighborhood of Fort Greene.
It is located within the Fort Greene Historic District.
The three forts were named Fort Putnam ( for Rufus Putnam ), Fort Greene ( for Nathanael Greene ) and Fort Box ( for Major Daniel Box ).
Fort Putnam was furthest to the north, with Greene slightly to the southwest and Box slightly further southwest.
On August 9, 1776, he was promoted to be one of the four new major generals and was put in command of the Continental Army troops on Long Island ; he chose the place for fortifications, and built the redoubts and entrenchments of Fort Putnam ( the site of current day Fort Greene Park ) east of Brooklyn Heights.
It is bordered by Boerum Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Prospect Heights, Williamsburg, and Fort Greene.
By the 1840s, Clinton Hill, and its sister neighborhood Fort Greene had become fashionable neighborhoods for the wealthy of Brooklyn, who could commute to Manhattan by way of stagecoach to the Fulton Ferry in nearby Brooklyn Heights.

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Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.
The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.
Nevertheless so short was the supply of seed that the settlers were forced to retreat to Fort Daer for food.
In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.
Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.
Early in 1822 he was at Fort Garry offering to bring in pork, flour, liquor and tobacco.
As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.
Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.
Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.
When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.
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.
Gen. John B. Floyd, who was to take command at Fort Donelson as the senior general present just before Brig.
Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.
Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.
In 1858 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor, but by the start of the Civil War, he was a captain and second in command in the garrison at Fort Sumter, under Maj. Robert Anderson.
Fort Astoria was constructed in 1811.
In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram daily newspaper ( morning edition ) 19 September 1970, J. Howard " Doc " DeCelles states that he was actually the victim of the first skyjacking in December 1929.
Trapping was minimal and, after traveling about 1300 miles ( 650 on foot ), he finally arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

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So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.
Even earlier examples of this sentiment may be found in Wild Talents by author Charles Fort where he makes the statement: "... a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.
The next day, he settled Fort Ponchartrain du Détroit ( now known as Detroit ).
In June 1825, he resolved to embark on an improved version of his " Anger of Achilles " ( also known as the " Sacrifice of Iphigenie "; the earlier version was completed in 1819 and is now in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
He is best known as one of the founders of the U. S. state of Vermont, and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revolutionary War.
This settlement was later renamed " Gordonsburgh ", and then " Duncansburgh " before being renamed " Fort William ", this time after Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ; known to some Scots as " Butcher Cumberland ".
Company trapping brigades were sent south from Fort Vancouver, along what became known as the Siskiyou Trail, into Northern California as far south as the San Francisco Bay Area.
It consists of a group of heroic tales dealing with the lives of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, the great hero Cú Chulainn, the son of Lug, and of their friends, lovers, and enemies. These are the Ulaid, or people of the North-Eastern corner of Ireland and the action of the stories centres round the royal court at Emain Macha ( known in English as Navan Fort ), close to the modern town of Armagh.
Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.
" Following this in 1844, work was commenced once again, replacing the remains of the 1812 era fort with a massive new Third System masonry fortification known as Fort Montgomery.
More prosaically, Clark cites Bill Moore, who asserts that " the Men in Black are really government agents in disguise ... members of a rather bizarre unit of Air Force Intelligence known currently as the Air Force Special Activities Center ( AFSAC ) ... As of 1991, the AFSAC, headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Virginia ," and " under the operational authority of Air Force Intelligence Command centered at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas.
He captured nearby Fort Beauséjour in 1755 and is also known for his roles as second-in-command at the Plains of Abraham, for capturing Martinique, as Governor of New York and also for his participation in the Great Upheaval.
Historically, Manama has been restricted to what is now known as the Manama Souq and the Manama Fort ( now the Ministry of Interior ) to its south.
In 1944, as the Soviets moved in, the Germans liquidated the ghetto and what had by then come to be known as the " Fort of Death ", and the prisoners were dispersed to other camps.
The Hawks shifted from " Tri-Cities " ( the area now known as the Quad Cities ) to Milwaukee ( in 1951 ) and then to St. Louis, Missouri ( in 1955 ); the Royals from Rochester, New York to Cincinnati ( in 1957 ); and the Pistons from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Detroit ( in 1957 ).
* 1941 – The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10, 000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the " Great Action ".
" The band produced a 17-track demo at Fort Apache soon afterwards, known to fans as " The Purple Tape " because of the tape cover's purple background.
The earliest known shoes are sandals dating from approximately 7, 000 or 8, 000 B. C., found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon.
The Guns Platoon ( as it is known for short ) has the task of rendering military honors in the National Capital Region, including armed forces full-honors funerals ; state funerals ; presidential inaugurations ; full-honors wreath ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery ; state arrivals at the White House and Pentagon, and retirement ceremonies for general-grade officers in the Military District of Washington, which are normally conducted at Fort Myer.
Towards the end of the year the Forbes Expedition seized the site of Fort Duquesne and began constructing a British settlement that would become known as Pittsburgh.
English colonists establish a Fort St. George, also known as the Popham Colony.
* Fort Mecoponacka ( 1641 )-located in Chester as a defense for the settlement then known as Finlandia, near Upland, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
* Fort Casimir ( 1654 )-also known as Fort Trinity ( in Swedish, Trefaldigheten ), located at the end of Chestnut Street near Harmony & 2nd streets in New Castle, Delaware.
The Battle of Fort Dearborn ( also known as the Fort Dearborn Massacre ) was an engagement between United States troops and Potawatomi Indians that occurred on August 15, 1812, near Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois, but was then part of the Illinois Territory.

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