* 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.

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.

* Fort Stevens

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.

There are five separate U. S. installations: Shipton Kaserne, home to 412th Aviation Support Battalion, Katterbach Kaserne, formally the home of the 1st Infantry Division's 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, which has been replaced by the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade as of 2006, as part of the 1st Infantry Division's return to Fort Riley, Kansas ; Bismarck Kaserne, which functions as a satellite post to Katterbach, hosting their Post Exchange, Theater, Barracks, Franconia Inn, Military Police, and other support agencies, Barton Barracks, home to the USAG Ansbach and Bleidorn Barracks, which has a library and housing.

In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.

This notice was found later that year by Astorians looking to establish an inland fur post, contributing to their selection of a more northerly site at Fort Okanogan.

At the end of the War of 1812, Fort Gibson was built and the island remained a military post for nearly 80 years before it was selected to be a federal immigration station.

His Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria ( established in April 1811 ) was the first United States community on the Pacific coast.

* 1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.

* Fort Carson, an Army post in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Criticized for his handling of a Native American attack on Fort Détroit, he had deserted his post as commander of the fort and was avoiding the French authorities.

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.

He built Fort Orleans in 1723 as a trading post near present-day Brunswick, Missouri.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.

It is housed in Roosevelt Hall on Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D. C., the third-oldest Army post still active.

** Fort Vancouver, 19th-century fur trading post, located in present-day Vancouver, Washington

* 1824 – The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company.

* February 11 – Fort Meigs: Leftwich is not successful, and when he leaves, Major Amos Stoddard assumes the command of the post.

* The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company.

* The Hudson's Bay Company trading post Fort Edmonton is constructed ; the city of Edmonton, Alberta, eventually grows from it.

He was hired as a physician at Fort William, Ontario ( now Thunder Bay ), a fur-gathering post of the North West Company on Lake Superior ; there he became a trader and mastered several Indian languages.

The remains of Fort Charlotte, built on an earlier lookout post erected by the Dutch

They also constructed a wooden stockade to act as a lookout post above Road Town on the site that would eventually become Fort Charlotte.

Nathaniel Higginson, who was then the second member of the Council of Fort St George took office as the Mayor of Madras.

The federally recognized Quechan tribe's main office is located in Fort Yuma, Arizona.

Reportedly he was forced out of his car near Fort Zeelandia and shot in the head, with his body left outside the office of Desi Bouterse.

This office may have been involved as a test project office for the Lockheed U-2, with whom Fort Walton Beach resident, World War II exile Polish pilot, and CIA officer, Ksawery Wyrożemski was involved.

Carson volunteered to deliver the application to the post office in Fort Meade, and on the way changed the name from Lakemont to Frostproof, which was approved.

Camp Springs is not an official post office designation ; the area is divided between the surrounding mailing addresses of Temple Hills, Fort Washington, Clinton, and Suitland.

Until the founding of the Oxon Hill post office about 1960, the Fort Washington area generally used the mailing address Washington, D. C., except for the few years that Friendly had a post office.

Friendly had its own rural post office in the early 20th century, and is now under the mailing address Fort Washington, MD.

The town hosts the Aaniiih Nakoda College, as well as other facilities such as the Fort Belknap Hospital, an office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Fort Belknap Tribal Council and Tribal Police, and a highway rest area.

Fort Peck had a post office from 1879 to 1881.

, members of the Readington Township Committee are Mayor Thomas S. Auriemma ( term of office as mayor / councilmember ends December 31, 2012 ), Deputy Mayor Julia C. Allen ( term as deputy member ends 2012 ; term on council ends 2014 ), Betty Ann Fort ( 2012 ), Frank L. Gatti ( 2014 ), Beatrice Muir ( 2012 ).

In 1815, the United States sold Fort Loramie to James Furrow, who created a tavern and post office out of the buildings.

George W. Todd established a Fort Mason post office March 8, 1858, which became consigned to the civilian settlement on June 26, 1858.

The first post office established in Webster County was Fort Lick, present-day Webster Springs.

From there they went to Oliver's office, tore it down, symbolically stamped the timbers, and took the effigy to Oliver ’ s home at the foot of Fort Hill where they beheaded and burned the effigy along with Oliver ’ s stable house and coach and chaise.

After a second tour of duty in the office of the Army Chief of Staff, Grunert attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas from 1930 to 1932.

* Third Army Area, headquartered variously in rented office space in downtown Atlanta and in 1946 at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia included NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, TN and MS

* The UK cedes its factory of Fort Marlborough in Bencoolen ( Bengkulu ) and all its property on the island of Sumatra to the Netherlands and will not establish another office on the island or make any treaty with its rulers.

The office of Maine state land agent led the armed civil posse with Deputy Land Agent William Parrott at Fort Fairfield and Captain Stover Rines at Camp Jarvis on the Fish River ( later Fort Kent, Maine ).