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Fort Johnson-Vernon Wildlife Management Area is a 105,545-acre tract (42,713 ha) of protected area in Louisiana within the United States Army military reservation of Fort Johnson. [1] The WMA is located approximately ten miles southeast of Leesville , in Vernon Parish , east of U.S. Highway 171 , one mile south of Louisiana Highway 28 and one ...
Fort Johnson, formerly Fort Polk, is a United States Army installation located in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, about 10 miles (15 km) east of Leesville and 30 miles (50 km) north of DeRidder in Beauregard Parish. Named after New York soldier William Henry Johnson, the post encompasses about 198,000 acres (309 sq mi).
The fort was named after Sir Nathaniel Johnson, who served as the Governor of Carolina from 1703 to 1709. It was the site of the first raising of the South Carolina state flag in 1775. The magazine was built in 1765 and is a brick structure that measures 27 feet long and 20 feet wide.
FORSCOM also commands three Army corps: V Corps at Fort Knox; III Corps at Fort Cavazos, Texas; and XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty, North Carolina. Together the three corps include nine divisions, one cavalry regiment, 37 support brigades of various types, and a range of other corps combat, combat support and combat service support units.
Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States. New York: Macmillan. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-926880-X .
After the patriots discovered this plot, John Ashe of the Wilmington Committee of Safety led a group of patriotic colonists in a plot against Fort Johnson in July 1775. Governor Martin and his supporters removed most military stores, dismounted the cannon of the fort, and fled aboard the British sloop-of-war Cruiser at anchor in the Cape Fear ...
Dillingham Military Reservation: Hawaii: PHDH Dyess Army Airfield: Reagan Test Site: Marshall Islands: PKRO Felker Army Airfield: Fort Eustis: Virginia: KFAF Forney Army Airfield: Fort Leonard Wood: Missouri: KTBN Fort Harrison Army Airfield: Fort Harrison: Montana: MT15 Godman Army Airfield: Fort Knox: Kentucky: KFTK Gray Army Airfield: Fort ...
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