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The last fort in the immediate area of what is now downtown Pittsburgh was named Fort Lafayette and was located further up the Allegheny River.
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After the bombardment, certain British gunboats attempted to slip past the fort and effect a landing in a cove to the west of it, but they were turned away by fire from nearby Fort Covington, the city's last line of defense.
In 1224, after additional troops led by prince Vyachko of Kukenois had been installed in the fort, it was besieged and conquered for one last time by the German crusaders.
The fort was de-commissioned by 1837, and parts of the fort were lost to the widening of the Chicago River in 1855 and a fire in 1857 ; the last vestiges being destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent two wooden gunboats ( timberclads ) down the Tennessee River for one last reconnaissance of the fort with Wallace aboard.
When emigration over the Oregon Trail began in earnest in about 1836, for many settlers the fort became the last stop on the Oregon Trail where they could get supplies, aid and help before starting their homestead.
Lee ordered the army to evacuate the fort because as he said it would only last thirty minutes and all soldiers would be killed.
It is located at the site of Fort said that the Dutch formed an outwork the last fortification ( 1815 – 1864 ). Remnants of the fort still exist under the current pavillon.
Nevves from America ; or, A New and Experimentall Discoverie of New England: Containing, a True Relation of their War-like Proceedings these two yeares last past, with a figure of the Indian fort, or Palizado.
Nevves from America ; or, A New and Experimentall Discoverie of New England: Containing, a True Relation of their War-like Proceedings these two yeares last past, with a figure of the Indian fort, or Palizado.
During the Civil War, Pendennis Castle was the second to last fort to surrender to the Parliamentary Army.
The fort ’ s land originally included 347 acres, which was last surveyed in June 1944.
Established by European-Americans Auguste Chouteau and Pierre Chouteau, Jr. of St. Louis in 1847 as the last fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River, the fort became an important economic center.
Colonel Lamb began gathering up every last soldier in the fort, including sick and wounded from the hospital, for a last-ditch counterattack.
The first fort ( Fort George ) was built from 1760 – 1763, the second ( Fort Wilhelm ) and third were built 1774 and 1784, the last fort ( called Fort Luise ) was built 1806.
For many settlers the fort became the last stop on the Oregon Trail where they could get supplies before starting their homestead.
In 1765, the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment finally got through to Fort Cavendish, the last fort still in French hands.
It seems that this last fort was considerably larger than the two former ones.
Their old fort, though renovated several times during last 5000 years, known as ' Pandavon Ka Quila ' or Purana Quila is located in New Delhi.
Pontchartrain, the minister for naval affairs and colonies gave Iberville the task of relocating the mouth of the Mississippi which La Salle had failed to find on his last voyage and to build a fort which would block the river to other nations.
The Mughal forces anticipated capturing Ramshej Fort near Nashik within hours, but the fight for the fort was to last seven years.
The Zamboanga fort was finally abandoned sometime in 1663 by the last remaining Spanish troops.
The Jesuits, belonging to the aggressive religious expansionists ' Society of Jesus, who remained in Zamboanga were historically credited for reconstructing the damaged fort in 1666, three years after the last Spanish soldiers vacated their walled post in 1663.
last and immediate
In the last eight years, all Presidential appointments, including those of cabinet rank, have been denied immediate action because of a Senate rule requiring at least a 24 hour delay after they are reported to the floor.
During this period, no large scale territorial conquest was intended by the Portuguese ; only a few minor settlements were established in the immediate hinterland of Luanda, some on the last stretch of the Kwanza River.
Molokans are known for having different spellings of last names within the same immediate family.
As a last resort, enrollment of the child in a course of catechetical instruction on reaching school age, can be offered in lieu of immediate celebration of baptism.
A seizure can last from a few seconds to status epilepticus, a continuous group of seizures that is often life-threatening without immediate intervention.
It is said that a block M immediately dominates block N if M dominates N, and there is no intervening block P such that M dominates P and P dominates N. In other words, M is the last dominator on all paths from entry to N. Each block has a unique immediate dominator.
Wilson ’ s immediate recourse was to the United Nations, and in 1965, the Security Council imposed sanctions, which were to last until official independence in 1979.
Under the immediate charge of the superintendent, the course of study was extended to seven years with the first two and the last two to be spent at the school and the intervening three years at sea.
The observation typically involves the scalar immediate reward associated with the last transition.
Wetting of the floodplain soil releases an immediate surge of nutrients: those left over from the last flood, and those that result from the rapid decomposition of organic matter that has accumulated since then.
Due to the successful nature of his reign and almost immediate decline of the empire after his death, he is often considered the " last great western emperor ".
By 1959, the last of the immediate Fickert family were gone, joining their kin who had gone before in the tiny family cemetery just up the hill from the main house.
Alex and Isabel are overtaken by lust at first sight and end up spending the night together ; however, their immediate attraction doesn't last in the cold light of day, and they don't see each other for another three months.
One immediate effect was that it was drained of water north from Stainton because of leakage, and the last in Kendal were filled in.
The last musical period is the improvised harmonium music which often followed the dinners Gurdjieff held in his Paris apartment during the Occupation and immediate post-war years, to his death in 1949.
Its immediate successor, a through overnight service from Paris to Vienna, ran for the last time from Paris on Friday, June 8, 2007.
E. g., if it runs off the track or collides, it receives 1 damage point for each square of the last movement, and comes to an immediate stand-still.
And bandleader Les Brown, who was with him during many of his tours, mentioned that his band " had seen more of Hope's ass in the last forty years than any of Hope's immediate family.
His friend Maine was his immediate predecessor: Guided by Maine's comprehensive talents, the government of India had entered a period of systematic legislation which was to last about twenty years.
With these observations, I join the last sentence of Part III of the opinion of the Court .< p > For the immediate future, however, the majority has placed its imprimatur on a practice that can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause.
In Experiment 2, every list was followed by an immediate free-recall test, with a final free-recall test after the last list.
His last years were devoted almost exclusively to his Florentine history, which was published in 1875 and achieved an immediate success.
His first original research, comprising part of a proof of Fermat's last theorem for the case, brought him immediate fame, being the first advance in the theorem since Fermat's own proof of the case and Euler's proof for.
Clemons ' impact was immediate, and the Argos won 4 of the remaining 6 games, including a dramatic 33 – 32 win over the Calgary Stampeders in the last game of the season, to push the Boatmen into the CFL playoffs for the first time in three years.
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