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  2. History of Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    History of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville provided Baton Rouge as well as Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas with their current names. The foundation of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dates to 1721, at the site of a bâton rouge or "red stick" Muscogee boundary marker. It became the state capital of Louisiana in 1849.

  3. Battle of Baton Rouge (1862) - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Baton Rouge (1862) / 30.4510; -91.1676. Cdre. David D. Porter. Map depicting Louisiana and approaches to New Orleans as depicted during the Civil War. [ 2] Map depicting Battle of Baton Rouge, August 5th 1862. [ 3] The Battle of Baton Rouge was a ground and naval battle in the American Civil War fought in East Baton Rouge Parish ...

  4. Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    The yearly average temperature for Baton Rouge is 68.4 °F (20.2 °C) while the average temperature for January is 51.7 °F (10.9 °C) and July is 83.0 °F (28.3 °C). [56] The area is usually free from extremes in temperature, with some cold winter fronts, but those are usually brief. [57]

  5. Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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    The Louisiana Purchase ( French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [ 1] In return for fifteen million dollars, [ a] or ...

  6. Bernardo de Gálvez - Wikipedia

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    Bernardo de Gálvez. Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, 1st Count of Gálvez (23 July 1746 – 30 November 1786) was a Spanish military leader and government official who served as colonial governor of Spanish Louisiana and Cuba, and later as Viceroy of New Spain . A career soldier since the age of 16, Gálvez was a veteran of several wars ...

  7. Kaiser Aluminum - Wikipedia

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    Kaiser Aluminum Corporation. Rolled aluminum, plate, sheet, can sheet, and extruded products. Kaiser Aluminum Corporation is an American aluminum producer. It is a spinoff from Kaiser Aluminum and Chemicals Corporation, which came to be when common stock was offered in Permanente Metals Corporation and Permanente Metals Corporation's name was ...

  8. Timeline of Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    1805 – Spanish Town, first residential area, is established. 1806 – Beauregard Town, second neighborhood, is established. 1810 – Baton Rouge becomes part of the Republic of West Florida in September, [2] but by December the republic is annexed by the U.S. into the Territory of Orleans, which in 1812 becomes the state of Louisiana. 1817 ...

  9. Baton Rouge Refinery - Wikipedia

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    ExxonMobil 's Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the sixth-largest oil refinery in the United States and seventeenth-largest in the world, [ 1] with an input capacity of 540,000 barrels (86,000 m 3) per day as of January 1, 2020. [ 2] The refinery is the site of the first commercial fluid catalytic cracking plant that began ...