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Fort Loudoun was occupied and manned with guns until the start of the American Revolutionary War.
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Faced with this strength, Loudoun returned to New York amid news that a massacre had occurred at Fort William Henry.
These included Fort Loudoun near Chota.
In 1756, on land granted by James Wood, Colonel George Washington designed and began constructing Fort Loudoun, which ultimately covered in present-day downtown Winchester on North Loudoun Street.
Watts Bar Dam is located along the river between Meigs and adjacent Rhea County, and forms Watts Bar Lake, which spans the river upstream to Fort Loudoun Dam just west of Knoxville.
Originally, it was named Christiana County, but a few days later the name was changed to Loudon in honor of nearby colonial Fort Loudoun.
The town is situated along State Route 333 ( Miser Station Road ) and stretches from Fort Loudoun Lake in the north to U. S. Route 321 ( Lamar Alexander Parkway ) to the south and lies at an elevation of 879 feet.
The Fort Loudoun Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River comprises Louisville's northern border.
The section of the Tennessee River that passes through Knoxville is part of Fort Loudoun Lake, an artificial reservoir created by TVA's Fort Loudoun Dam about downstream in Lenoir City.
At one point, Wagner was shouted down by legendary Monroe County judge Sue K. Hicks, who as president of the Fort Loudoun Association feared the destruction of the historic fort's site by the proposed dam's reservoir.
Fort Loudoun Dam is nearby.
The Tennessee River and TVA's Fort Loudoun and Watts Bar reservations provide the city's southern boundary.
The Tennessee Valley Authority's construction of Fort Loudoun Dam and reservoir, which began in 1940, provided hundreds of locals with jobs, and brought a number road improvements to the area.
A new hospital, Fort Loudoun Medical Center, was built replacing the old Loudon Hospital in nearby Loudon.
Fort Loudoun, the colonial era fort for which the city was named, is located several miles to the south in Monroe County.
The Icehouse Bottom site, located near Fort Loudoun, was occupied by Native Americans as early as 7500 B. C., making it one of the earliest known semi-permanent habitation sites in Tennessee.
Tuskegee was located just south of the future Fort Loudoun.
Fort Loudoun was an English colonial fort built in 1756 in hopes of obtaining Cherokee assistance in the French and Indian War.
The Tellico Blockhouse, an American outpost located across the river from Fort Loudoun, was built in 1794 to help keep the peace between the Cherokee and the fast-encroaching American settlers.
Preservationists aided by Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) funds had reconstructed Fort Loudoun in the 1930s.
Both are now part of Fort Loudoun State Park.
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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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On September 4, the army had occupied the Île aux Noix in the Richelieu River, a few miles above Fort St. John, which they then prepared to besiege.
Later, the Dutch occupied the Brazilian Northeast and founded the Fort Schoonenborch.
The facility ( called Roughs Tower or HM Fort Roughs ) was occupied by 150 – 300 Royal Navy personnel throughout World War II ; not until well after the war, in 1956, were the last full-time personnel taken off HM Fort Roughs.
After British General John Forbes occupied Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War, he ordered the site's reconstruction and named it after then-Secretary of State Pitt.
Gen. Charles F. Smith's division and occupied Fort Heiman across the river from Fort Henry.
Three days later, the French attempt had failed, although French infantry had occupied the superstructure of Fort Douaumont for over 12 hours.
The Spanish established a settlement at Santissima Trinidad, building Fort San Salvador on the northwest coast of Taiwan near Keelung in 1626 which they occupied until 1642 when they were driven out by a joint Dutch – Aborigine invasion force.
The group had occupied part of the grounds of Fort Lawton, which was in the process of being surplussed by the United States Army and turned into a park.
In August 1812, the Russian-American Company set up a fortified trading post at Fort Ross, near present day Bodega Bay on the Sonoma Coast of Northern California, sixty miles north of San Francisco on land claimed, but not occupied by, the British Empire.
Fort Duncan was occupied by Confederate troops during the Civil War.
Spanish Fort was originally the site of a trading post established by French occupied Mobile.
Fort Craig was first occupied on March 31, 1854.
Fort San Juan, built there by Spanish explorers in 1567 and occupied for 18 months, is being excavated.
In 1789, the United States signed the Treaty of Fort Harmar with several Native American nations who occupied areas of the Northwest Territory, to settle issues related to trade, and the boundary between their lands and United States settlement.
The land currently occupied by the library was previously the Fort Bend County Precinct 4 headquarters.
The land currently occupied by the library was previously the Fort Bend County Precinct 4 headquarters.
Inhabitants occupied the Fort Parker settlement near the Navasota river.
The name of White Settlement originated as a result of there being two settlements in the area: one occupied predominantly by Native Americans ( near where Fort Worth is located today ), and the other one being occupied by white settlers.
This was built at the present site of Fort Ashby village and is still in use as a dwelling, being owned and occupied by Mr. Thomas F. Pyles.
The whole island was formerly occupied by Fort Hughes, a U. S. defense fortification before World War II.
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