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Fort Phil Kearney was established on Piney Creek, but continued harassment by the Lakota led to the abandonment of the Fort and the withdrawal of the US Army from the Powder River Country under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868.
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Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming and Fort Kearny in Washington, D. C., are named for him.
Col. Henry B. Carrington rejected the Tongue River site for a site to the south on Little Piney Creek, in the Powder River drainage, where Fort Phil Kearny was erected.
From 1865 through 1868 during Red Cloud's War, Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux bands harassed, attacked and killed travelers on the Bozeman Trail and soldiers at Fort Phil Kearny and Fort C. F. Smith.
Captain William J. Fetterman was sent from Fort Phil Kearny with two civilians and 79 cavalry and infantrymen to chase away a small Indian war party that had attacked a wood party days before.
" Unbeknownst to Johnson, Carrington at that time was under virtual siege by the Indians at Fort Phil Kearny.
Fort Phil Kearny was constructed to house 1, 000 soldiers, a number never achieved in its brief history.
Proceeding north, on July 14, Carrington founded Fort Phil Kearny on Piney Creek, near present-day Buffalo, Wyoming.
In November 1866, Captains William J. Fetterman and James Powell arrived at Fort Phil Kearny from the 18th Infantry's headquarters garrison at Fort Laramie to replace several officers recently relieved of duty.
However, Wessells and his men at Fort Phil Kearny had a difficult time.
As a consequence, a force, composed primarily of Cheyenne and Arapaho, gathered for an attack at Fort C. F. Smith on the Bighorn River in Montana while another, mostly Lakota, decided to attack Fort Phil Kearny, 90 miles southwest.
Subsequently, three goalies have scored empty-net goals in the CHL: Phil Groeneveld of the Fort Worth Fire scored against the Thunder in Wichita, Kansas, on November 20, 1995 ; Bryan McMullen scored for the Austin Ice Bats on February 17, 2002 ; and Mike Hall of the Arizona Sundogs scored a goal against Corpus Christi on March 16, 2007.
They had been sent out from Fort Phil Kearny to follow up on an earlier attack on a wood train.
On August 2, 1867, Crazy Horse participated in the Wagon Box Fight, also near Fort Phil Kearny.
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The Lander Road, formally the Fort Kearney, South Pass, and Honey Lake Wagon Road, was established and built by U. S. government contractors in 1858 – 59.
Stockton is located on the natural trail up the valley of the South Solomon River and where the military supply trail from Fort Kearney, Nebraska, to Fort Hays, Kansas, crossed the South Solomon River.
Elwood participates in the Fort Kearney Conference.
The battle near Fort Philip Kearney, Dakota Territory, December 21, 1866.
The trails from these cities ( and several others ) converged in the mostly empty flatlands of central Nebraska near present-day Kearney, in the vicinity of Fort Kearney.
In addition, the 11th Kansas Cavalry was due to march to Fort Kearney on or about August 1 to muster out of service.
Wagon Box Fight site, near Fort Phil Kearney, WY
Wagon Box Fight site, near Fort Phil Kearney, WY
The fort should be distinguished from the similarly named Fort Kearney in Nebraska, which was named for Kearny's uncle Stephen W. Kearny.
Plan of Fort Kearney from Indian Fights and Fighters ( 1904 )
Kearney arrived in Fort St. John, British Columbia in 1935, replacing a Dr. Brown, the first doctor in Fort St. John.
A school in Fort St. John, Dr. Kearney Junior Secondary School, is named in his honour.
Born in Pembroke, Ontario, Kearney moved to Fort William in 1909.
In 1927 Kearney was part of the Fort William senior hockey team, which won the Western Canadian Senior Hockey Championships.
Following a mandatory three-year waiting period, Kearney rejoined the amateur ranks as a goalie for the Fort William Senior Hockey Team, winning the Thunder Bay District League Championships in 1934, as well as the Western Canada Senior Championship.
In 1966, he also portrayed the ill-fated western military Captain William Judd Fetterman in the episode " Massacre at Fort Phil Kearney " near Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming of NBC's Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre.
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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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