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Battery Bienvenue is a ruined coastal gun battery located in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. It was built as part of the harbor defense of New Orleans, and located at a strategic fork where Bayou Bienvenue and Bayou Villeré join. Bayou Bienvenue, from Lake Borgne, was the route used by the British late in 1814 to approach the city.
Bayou Bienvenue is a 12.1-mile-long (19.5 km) [1] bayou and "ghost swamp" [2] ... the remains of Battery Bienvenue still guard the eastern approach to the city.
The Battery (Manhattan) (13 P) Pages in category "Artillery battery fortifications in the United States" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Twenty-four current units of the Army National Guard perpetuate the lineages of militia units mustered into federal service during the War of 1812. Militia units from nine states that were part of the Union by the end of the War of 1812 (Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia), plus the District of Columbia, are the ...
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Bienvenue may refer to: Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852–1936), French civil engineer largely known for construction of Paris underground railway; Bienvenue, French Guiana, a town in French Guiana; Bayou Bienvenue, a bayou in Louisiana; La Bienvenue was a 28-gun French warship launched in 1788. She was captured by the British in 1794 and renamed HMS ...
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The Naval General Service Medal (NGSM) was a campaign medal approved in 1847, for issue to officers and men of the Royal Navy.. The Admiralty retroactively awarded the Naval General Service Medal for various naval actions that occurred during the period 1793–1840, a period that included the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Anglo–American War of 1812.