Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O. Collins, suggesting that a site several miles farther down the river would make a good location for the fort.

* April 29 – General William Tecumseh Sherman brokers the Treaty of Fort Laramie between the United States the Plains Indians.

Through Nebraska it followed the Great Platte River Road, cutting through Gothenburg, Nebraska and passing Courthouse Rock, Chimney Rock, and Scotts Bluff, clipping the edge of Colorado at Julesburg, Colorado, before arriving at Fort Laramie in Wyoming.

The first Fort Laramie as it looked prior to 1840.

After ferrying across the Missouri River and establishing wagon trains near what became Omaha, Nebraska, the Mormons followed the northern bank of the Platte River in Nebraska to Fort Laramie in present day Wyoming.

Those traveling south of the Platte crossed the South Platte River with its muddy and treacherous crossings using one of about three ferries ( in dry years it could sometimes be forded without a ferry ) before continuing up the North Platte River valley to Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming.

Those traveling south of the Platte crossed the South Platte fork at one of about three ferries ( in dry years it could be forded without a ferry ) before continuing up the North Platte River valley into present-day Wyoming heading to Fort Laramie.

Before 1852 those on the north side of the Platte crossed the North Platte to the south side at Fort Laramie.

Fort Laramie, at the junction of the Laramie River and the North Platte River, was a major stopping point.

Fort Laramie was a former fur trading outpost originally named Fort John that was purchased in 1848 by the U. S. Army to protect travelers on the trails.

Fort Laramie was the end of most cholera outbreaks which killed thousands along the lower Platte and North Platte from 1849 to 1855.

During the 1849 gold rush, Fort Laramie was known as " Camp Sacrifice " because of the large amounts merchandise discarded nearby.

Travelers had pushed along the relatively easy path to Fort Laramie with their luxury items but discarded them before the difficult mountain crossing ahead and after discovering that many items could be purchased at the forts or located for free along the way.

The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 with the United States confirmed as Crow lands a large area centered on the Big Horn Mountains: the area ran from the Big Horn Basin on the west, to the Musselshell River on the north, and east to the Powder River ; it included the Tongue River basin.

The Treaty of Fort Laramie ( 1868 ) with the United States confirmed the Lakota control over all the high plains from the Black Hills of the Dakotas westward across the Powder River Basin to the crest of the Big Horn Mountains.

Nearly half a century later, after the United States Army had built Fort Laramie without permission on Lakota land, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 was negotiated to protect travelers on the Oregon Trail.

The Fort Laramie Treaty acknowledged Lakota sovereignty over the Great Plains in exchange for free passage on the Oregon Trail for " as long as the river flows and the eagle flies ".

In 1868, the United States signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever.

The war ended with the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

by Treaty of Fort Laramie ( 1868 )

Maj. Anderson of Fort Sumter is home and recruiting volunteers for the U.S. Army.

This is not unlike the order received by the sergeant of an army motor pool: `` Four trucks to Fort Mason gym, 7:30 tonight, for hauling girls to dance.

The Fort Lauderdale encampment for drinking is foreign to most Brooklyn College boys.

Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.

: If Bill Gates owns Fort Knox, then he is rich.

Owning Fort Knox is not the only way to be rich.

There is a movement to petition the postmaster general to issue a U. S. postage stamp for him in 2011, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Fort Sumter.

* 1812 – War of 1812: The Battle of Fort Dearborn is fought between United States troops and Potawatomi at what is now Chicago, Illinois.

Acapulco ’ s most historic building is the San Diego Fort, located east of the main square and originally built in 1616 to protect the city from pirate attacks.

Edmonton, and more so its surrounding region ( Nisku, Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan ), is the site of most oil-and-gas related industry including refining and manufacturing.

During the 1st century AD, the Army then chose a site to the north of the emerging town in what is now the section of Bonn-Castell to build a large military installation dubbed Castra Bonnensis, i. e., literally, " Fort Bonn ".

The 1981 film Fort Apache, The Bronx is another film that used the Bronx's gritty image for its storyline.

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.

Standing at above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.

Fort Belgica, one of many forts built by the Dutch East India Company, is one of the largest remaining European forts in Indonesia.

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.

So far, only a single bird species, which has not been named, has been confidently identified from both above and below the K-Pg boundary ( it is present in the Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation and Danian Fort Union Formation ).

There are historic forts at both ends of Copacabana beach ; Fort Copacabana, built in 1914, is at the south end by Posto Seis and Fort Duque de Caxias, built in 1779, at the north end.

It is in the El Paso Independent School District, located on Fort Bliss property, and serves a portion of Fort Bliss.

The only other location where this occurs is Fort Erie, Ontario, lying south of several cities in Niagara County, New York.