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Fort Stevens, located near the peninsula formed by the south shore of the Columbia river and the Pacific Ocean, became the only continental US military installation attacked in World War II, when submarine I-25 of the Imperial Japanese Navy fired 17 rounds at the base June 21, 1942.
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* 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens ; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D. C ..
This gave the city defenses time to organize and repel Early, who arrived at Fort Stevens in Washington at around noon on July 11, two days after defeating Wallace at Monocacy, the northernmost Confederate victory of the war.
While stationed at Fort Sill, he first met the daughter of the post Executive Officer, Katherine ( Kitsy ) Stevens Van Deusen, 9 years old at the time.
Since Lincoln was watching the fight from the ramparts of Fort Stevens, this was only time in American history when two former opponents in a presidential election faced one another across battle lines.
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Gen. Wheaton had become a local folk hero when he successfully defended Washington, DC and nearby Fort Stevens from an attack by Confederate General Jubal Early on July 11 – 12, 1864.
In the words of Luther E. Stanley, " When Isaac Ingle Stevens was ordered to Fort Owen in 1853, he came to what he supposed would be a military fort but much to his surprise, it was a trading post.
General Stevens, for the past year, had been in charge of military operations and Indian affairs in the Northwest Territory ... he moved his government and military material to Fort Owen.
He was killed in action in 1862 at Chantilly .... Stevens laid out a new town near the ruins of St. Mary's Mission and Fort Owen ... It was named Stevensville in his honor and authorized by President Lincoln on May 12, 1864.
Hastings was the first town settled in Oswego County when Oliver Stevens built a rude house near the abandoned Fort Brewerton in 1789.
Fort Stevens was built in the Warrenton area in 1863.
Warrenton includes the former communities of Fort Stevens, Hammond, and Skipanon.
Fort Stevens post office operated at the Fort Stevens military post from 1899 to 1949.
In 1864, his regiment was briefly mustered into active service and sent to be garrison troops at Fort Stevens, part of Washington, D. C .' s defenses.
* Two U. S. Army forts were named for Stevens — Fort Stevens in the Union defenses of Washington and Fort Stevens in Oregon, which was active from 1863 until 1947 to protect the mouth of the Columbia River.
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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.
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.
It is in the El Paso Independent School District, located on Fort Bliss property, and serves a portion of Fort Bliss.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, located at Fort Gordon near Augusta, Georgia, was named in his honor.
* Miami Fusion, a professional soccer ( football ) club located in Fort Lauderdale
Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.
Fort Collins is located at ( 40. 559238, − 105. 078302 ).
Drawing from the original shape of the Fort Thüngen walls where the museum was located, Pei planned to remove a portion of the original foundation.
Having the requisite qualifications, Robinson and several other black soldiers applied for admission to an Officer Candidate School ( OCS ) then located at Fort Riley.
He died from an abdominal aortic aneurysm in the surgeon's quarters in Fort Lyon, Colorado, located east of Las Animas.
Fort Garland, located within the city of the same name in Colorado, was the location where Kit Carson briefly re-located his family while he served as commandant of a company of roughly 100 New Mexico Volunteers in 1866-1867.
The Kit Carson Chapel, located in Fort Lyon, Colorado, was constructed from the stones of the surgeons ' quarters where he died.
From its measurement of the natural resonance frequency of caesium — which is used to define the second — NIST broadcasts time signals via longwave radio station WWVB at Fort Collins, Colorado, and shortwave radio stations WWV and WWVH, located at Fort Collins, Colorado and Kekaha, Hawaii, respectively.
Paris, Texas is a city located northeast of the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex in Lamar County, Texas, in the United States.
The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognized entity, located on HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.
Starfleet Headquarters is shown to be located on Earth, northeast of the Golden Gate Bridge in the Fort Baker area.
The main campus is located near Starfleet Headquarters in what is now Fort Baker, California.
The main Fort Garry Campus ( located on the Red River in south Winnipeg ) comprises over 60 teaching and research buildings of the University and sits on of land.
** Fort Vancouver, 19th-century fur trading post, located in present-day Vancouver, Washington
Admiralty Head Lighthouse is located in this area, on the grounds of Fort Casey State Park.
Washington State Parks located on the island include Deception Pass State Park ( the most visited state park in Washington ), Joseph Whidbey State Park, Fort Ebey State Park, Fort Casey State Park, Possession Point State Park, and South Whidbey State Park.
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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.
This situation led finally to an " inconclusive " duel between Pike and Roane on July 29, 1847 near Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The North West Company's Fort Nez Percés was established near the Snake River junction several years later.
Near Padstow, a Roman site of some importance now lies buried under the sands on the opposite side of the Camel estuary near St. Enodoc's Church, and may have been a western coastal equivalent of a Saxon Shore Fort.
In August 1689, a French fleet appeared near the coast of Ceylon compelling the Governor of Pulicat Lawrence Pitt who was on high seas to seek protection within the bastions of Fort St George.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
Fort William lies near the head of Loch Linnhe, one of Scotland's longest sea lochs, beside the mouth of the rivers Nevis and Lochy.
The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William.
Movies filmed in or near Fort William include Being Human, Braveheart, Highlander, Restless Natives, Harry Potter and Rob Roy.
The TV series Rockface was filmed mainly around Fort William and some scenes of Monarch of the Glen were filmed around Lochaber although mostly near Newtonmore.
A second settlement was established on the north coast in 1504 called Puerto Real near modern Fort Liberte-which in 1578 was relocated to a nearby site and renamed Bayaha.
* 1740 – A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.
* 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18. 00 ; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
* 1806 – Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
He attended the last mountain man rendezvous, held in the summer of 1840 ( again at Ft. Bridger near the Green River ) and moved on to Bent's Fort, finding employment as a hunter.
In the winter of 1804 – 05, the party built Fort Mandan, near present-day Washburn, North Dakota.
The United States adapted the former Spanish facility at Fort Bellefontaine as a fur trading post near St. Louis in 1804 for business with the Sauk and Fox.
Some new reservoirs for hydroelectric schemes have been given names faithful to the names for natural bodies of water-for example: the Loch Sloy scheme, and Lochs Laggan and Treig ( which form part of the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme near Fort William ).
He built Fort Orleans in 1723 as a trading post near present-day Brunswick, Missouri.
* 1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and a party of Overmountain Men in 1779, near the original Cumberland settlement of Fort Nashborough.
Originally displayed within a temple, the stele was probably moved during the early Christian or medieval period and eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid ( Rosetta ) in the Nile Delta.
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